AMD Turion X2 problems -- Major lag issues

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Fri, 04 May 2007 11:35:10 -0400
Russell Doucette <ota at animenfo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a gateway MX3410 laptop, and when I try to install,
> sysinstall hangs or has unimaginable lag time, and then my laptop
> just sends out this constant system beep at me.  Is there a problem
> with FreeBSD and AMD Turion CPUs?  I hear a few other people are
> having problems with various AMD chipsets, in particular Turions
> with the same exact problem.
> 
> Is there a workaround or patch to installing FreeBSD on my Gateway
> (AMD Turion 64-x2 technology)?  Thanks.
> 

Try disabling apic (read: apic, not acpi). set hint.apic.0.disabled=1
through loader prompt. The drawback is that other cpu cores will not
be enabled.

Update to latest -stable if you want to re-enable apic.


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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