Laptop Problems

Kim Needham kimn at chariot.net.au
Fri Aug 29 21:12:41 PDT 2003 

I recently got a new Asus laptop. I went to place FreeBSD 4.8 on it, but
it kept hanging on detecting the HDD. So I tried 5.1 instead which
installed fine.

I have run into several problems with the hardware. The first is that the
3 Com Gigabit card (from the 3com site it looks like a 3C2000-T)
is not being detected. I can not find anything in the kernel config
that will help with the detection. So the first question is
what can I do so that it can be detected and setup?

The second problem has been with trying to get X started. When I started
X, all I end up with is a blank screen and no response. Ctl-Alt-Backspace
does terminated it, but there is still no display. I am now at a stage
of being uncertain where to continue from here since the XFree logs are
not as helpful as I had hoped.

So does anyone have any good suggestions on what I could try to get either
or both to work?

Thanks in advance
Kim

Some information on the PC: (let me know if you need any more information)
The kernel is currently a generic one with the radeondrm device compiled in.

Output from dmesg
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Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sat Aug 30 09:58:14 CST 2003
    root at laptop:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPTOP
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc06ea000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc06ea244.
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 2666778568 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf27  Stepping = 7
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 536846336 (511 MB)
avail memory = 513966080 (490 MB)
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <ASUS   L5C     > on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00f1be0
acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model.
Timecounter "ACPI-fast"  frequency 3579545 Hz
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_cpu1: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <SiS 648 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe8000000-0xebffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
drm0: <ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xe7800000-0xe780ffff,0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
info: [drm] AGP at 0xe8000000 64MB
info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
fwohci0: vendor=1039, dev=7007
fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xe7000000-0xe7000fff irq 11 at device 2.3 on pci0
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:e0:18:00:03:0c:8a:e7
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
if_fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:e0:18:0c:8a:e7
sbp0: <SBP2/SCSI over firewire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
atapci0: <SiS 96X UDMA133 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 2.5 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <simple comms> at device 2.6 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 2.7 (no driver attached)
ohci0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xe6800000-0xe6800fff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ohci1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xe6000000-0xe6000fff irq 5 at device 3.1 on pci0
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ohci2: <SiS 5571 USB controller> mem 0xe5800000-0xe5800fff irq 5 at device 3.2 on pci0
usb2: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb2: <SiS 5571 USB controller> on ohci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 3.3 (no driver attached)
cbb0: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb1: <PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 10.1 on pci0
cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
pci0: <memory, flash> at device 10.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: <network> at device 12.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
sio0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sio1 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
fwohci0: BUS reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 4 steps (100% to 25.0%), currently 100.0%
ad2: 57231MB <IC25N060ATMR04-0> [116280/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100
acd0: DVD-R <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6112> at ata0-master PIO4

Tail of the XFree Log:
----------------------

(II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
(II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
(II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
        Screen to screen bit blits
        Solid filled rectangles
        8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
        Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
        Solid Lines
        Scanline Image Writes
        Offscreen Pixmaps
        Setting up tile and stipple cache:
                32 128x128 slots
                32 256x256 slots
                16 512x512 slots
(II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
(==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
(==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
(II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7152
(II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(**) Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "SysMouse"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
(**) Option "BaudRate" "1200"
(**) Option "StopBits" "2"
(**) Option "DataBits" "8"
(**) Option "Parity" "None"
(**) Option "Vmin" "1"
(**) Option "Vtime" "0"
(**) Option "FlowControl" "None"
(**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3
(**) Mouse1: BaudRate: 1200
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
AUDIT: Sat Aug 30 13:26:53 2003: 967 XFree86: client 5 rejected from local host
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x10000) was already clear

Output from PCISCAN:
--------------------

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0648
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]  Device unknown

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x0008
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x03: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7007
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x05: vendor 0x1039 device 0x5513
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x06: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7013
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem]

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x07: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7012
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x03 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x03 function 0x01: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x03 function 0x02: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7001
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x03 function 0x03: vendor 0x1039 device 0x7002
 Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7002 USB 2.0

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x1524 device 0x1421
 ENE Technology Inc  Device unknown

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x01: vendor 0x1524 device 0x1421
 ENE Technology Inc  Device unknown

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x02: vendor 0x1524 device 0x0510
 ENE Technology Inc  Device unknown

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0c function 0x00: vendor 0x14e4 device 0x4301
 Broadcom Corporation BCM4301 802.11b

pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0d function 0x00: vendor 0x10b7 device 0x1700
 3Com Corporation  Device unknown

pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x4c66
 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]

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