i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)

Chris chrcoluk at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 22:09:20 PST 2006


On 09/02/06, Mars G. Miro <marsgmiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/9/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
> > Quoting "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > On 2/8/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+)
> motherboard
> > and
> > >> >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).
> > >> >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang
> but
> > >> >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.
> > >> >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then
> > hang)
> > >> >
> > >> > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and
> > >> > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the
> HD
> > >> > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS.
> > >> >
> > >> > Try this and report back ;-)
> > >> >
> > >> Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of
> > >> 133Mhz) seems to work...
> > >>
> > >> I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have
> it
> > >> on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the
> > moment...
> > >>
> > >
> > > Also try disabling APIC (not ACPI) as I've encountered several mobos
> > > that have this implemented poorly w/c results in weird behaviors of
> > > the OS.
> > >
> > >> I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I'm not aware of any patches but I think this is just a hardware
> > > config problem tho YMMV.
> > >
> > Working at 133Mhz with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in looader.conf.
> >
> > Thanks for that :)
> >
>
> Actually, I was referring to disabling APIC in the BIOS, not in
> FreeBSD. But I'm glad that it works ;-)
>
> > I saw at http://acpi.sf.net/dsdt/view.php?id=233 that a dsdt specific
> > for this board is available... (not fixing all), could this fix
> > anything in my case ? I think I'll give a try on of these days...
> >
>
> That I have no clue ;-)
>
>
> > Geoffroy
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
> cheers
> mars
> _______________________________________________


I noticed a few times now disabling acpi in 6.0 fixes some problems, but on
the same hardware acpi will work on 5.4 is this to do with i386 support been
removed or are there other acpi changes under the hood?

Chris


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