Re: problems with X on AMD64

hi,

thanks for your reply.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:46:41 +0000
"Nigel J. Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I might have a solution for the GENERIC.MP, only a guess as you don't
> give details. I had a timeout during boot,
> 
> wd2(pciide2:0:0): timeout
> 	type: ata
> 	c_bcount: 512
> 	c_skip: 0
>   

my machine hangs on detection of usb ports and hubs, some irq-routing
issues, i have to retry with enabled acpi maybe...

> I use a similar motherboard using the nvidia nforce 5xx chipset, you
> might be hitting the same issue. I found that if I disable the unused
> SATA controllers in the BIOS the GENERIC.MP worked.   

i do not use any of the onboard sata controllers. i use a pci express
based areca raid controller.

anyway, thanks for the hint, maybe i need to disable the on-board
controllers too.

regards,

joerg