Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 7.1-stable
Alexander Motin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > FreeBSD 7.1 has been released, time to upgrade the wicked, > hard-to-get-working-with FreeBSD laptop again. > The laptop in question is Acer's Aspire 5672 (the series is called > Aspire 5670), which is a machine with Intel Core Duo (ie 32-bit) cpu, 2 GB > RAM and a ATI Radeon X1600 gfx chip onboard. Now upgraded to FreeBSD > 7.1-stable: > tingo@kg-home$ uname -a > FreeBSD kg-home.kg4.no 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2: Thu Jan 8 > 19:30:11 CET 2009 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > The problem is that drivers for the nic's (both wired and > wireless) will not attach when acpi is enabled: I have alike problem with my Acre TravelMate. On ACPI enable, PCI-Express bridges losing their resources allocation making device beyond them inaccessible. Linux able to reallocate that resources, while FreeBSD does not. I am personally now using patch found on some list which does it in a dirty hack fashion especially for my system. -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"