compaq 6515b turion x2 laptop

[Coleman Kane]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 14:33 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 12:13 -0500, rar102 at ra.msstate.edu wrote:
> > Quoting Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org>:
> > 
> > Yes!!! thank you.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to another amd64 box to
> > try your patch.  Sorry.  But, I will look at the dmesg and send it to you.
> 
> Excellent. A dmesg will be very helpful for me to write a patch from, as
> it will allow me to see if it is or is not the sound driver overlapping
> memory in your case. I suspect that the BIOS images are so similar that
> you probably even have almost the same bios-chosen memory regions on
> your system.

If you're having difficulty getting a dmesg, you might want to try
booting off the LiveFS disc with a USB flash drive plugged in. You can
then mount the flash drive (which should be detected as SCSI) and write
the dmesg output there.

> 
> > 
> > > RAR,
> > >
> > > You are in luck! Well, actually I have good news and I have bad news.
> > > The good news is that I have nearly the same (6715b) laptop and
> > > experienced similar problems when getting FreeBSD onto it. After some
> > > work, I've been able to use FreeBSD reliably on the system.
> > >
> > > The bad news is that you probably have an overlap of PCI memory ranges
> > > between the SATA controller and another device in the system (likely the
> > > audio controller).
> > >
> > > I put up a page describing the problem here:
> > >
> > http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#getting_the_hp_compaq_6715b_working
> > >
> > > Specifically, read this section:
> > >
> > http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#the_onboard_ati_sb600_hda_audio_controller
> > >
> > > Give me the weekend, and I will post a 7.0-RELEASE CD with the patch in
> > > it. I figured that I should have done it a while ago. Oh well.
> > >
> > > While you are at it, see if you can use Scroll-Lock and the up/down keys
> > > to read the kernel messages. See if you can find the atapci0 probe line
> > > for your SATA controller (AHCI), as well as the line for your pcm0
> > > device and send them back to me. I can add your info to my webpage to
> > > help others.
> > >
> > > It will look like this:
> > > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port
> > > 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f mem
> > > 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
> > > ...
> > > pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xd0608000-0xd060bfff
> > > irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
> > >
> > > You'll notice the "mem" resource for the audio controller is
> > > 0xd0608000-0xd060bff, and the "mem" resource for the SATA controller is
> > > 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff. The SATA controller's "mem" resource is
> > > completely covered by this audio controller.
> > >
> > > If you happen to have access to another machine for building your own
> > > releases, you can try my patch and build them from it.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Coleman Kane
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 

-- 
Coleman Kane
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