newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat Jan 10 06:33:23 PST 2009
Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com> writes:
> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC?
>>
> You mean ACPI?
No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you
can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be
worth trying.
> You mean ACPI? When the PC boots, I got a menu looks alike this one:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install/boot-loader-menu.png
> except my 2nd choice was "with ACPI enabled" instead of ACPI disabled. I
> chose 2, result was the same (irq at 11)
Sorry, I seem to be beyond my knowledge of PC hardware here.
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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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