FreeBSD + HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, Pre-install questions.

Tue Jul 21 20:53:18 UTC 2009

I have a problem booting the DVD on this laptop, with ACPI enabled, it
crashes after the usb part, check the screenshot
http://omploader.org/vMjBqbA

I tried with ACPI disabled, the whole system stops responding even
before the USB part.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk)
<mla at nasreddine.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently bought an HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, it's 2.4Ghz Core 2 DUO, 4G RAM, 2x250 Gb Hard Disk
>
> ------- lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
> 06:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
> 06:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
> 06:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
> 06:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
> ------- lspci
>
> What is critical for me is:
>
> Wifi: Intel 5100 AGN
> Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT Resolution: 1440x900
> Sound: Intel High definition Audio, Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X
>
> Since I have 2x250Gb, I would like to use ZFS, I heard FreeBSD can boot from ZFS now, is it stable ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
> --
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>

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.: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs,
  would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.