Re: Problems booting FreeBSD on a Compaq Pavillion V6107au

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:10:54 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2007-Mar-25 12:17:30 -0500, Dan Olson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >At the boot loader prompt, try entering "set
> >hint.apic.0.disabled=1".
> >
> >This may be related to my trouble with an HP dv6119us which I
> >reported  in PR "i386/104678: SMP not working on Turion XP Laptop"
> 
> I've applied
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/idlecpu_apic_5.diff
> and added the above to loader.conf and it now boots with APCI
> enabled.
> 
> SMP is the next thing to try, followed by sound...
> 
> For anyone else that's following:  I've back-ported the gForce Go
> 6150 support from X.org 7.2 into 6.9.0 and the screen now works with
> native resolution.  Ask if you want the patches.
> 

There is no point to apply the patch and disabling apic via
hint.apic.0.disabled=1 . You probably mean hw.apic.idle_cpu=1 .


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD

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    and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........

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