Re: NetBSD appears not to support motherboard/chipset

Tobias Nygren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Warmann wrote:
>
> Tobias Nygren <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> This board has a buggy bios. Booting into autoconf (boot -c)
>> and disabling pckbc0 should get your usb keyboard working.
>> Alternatively you can disable uhci in the bios and and use
>> a PS/2 keyboard.
>>     
>
> Thanks Tobias, I had been terribly frustrated by this.
> Autoconf did not work though because once it got in there 
> the keyboard stopped functioning. What worked was disabling EHCI 
> and usb keyboard/mouse. I'm using a ps2 keyboard.
>  
>   
>> This board has a buggy bios. 
>>     
>
> You know what exactly the cause of the problem is?
>
>   

Unfortunately no. I believe it's an interrupt routing issue, seeing
as the onboard audio doesn't work either. (does it work for you?)
I have the hardware, but debugging x86 interrupt routing is far
down on my list of interesting projects ;)

-Tobias
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