Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Monday 13 September 2004 05:54 pm, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 September 2004 07:09 am, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work properly has been a whole different challenge ~John Speaking of which, do you know which specific sound driver should be enabled in the kernel? I have: device sound device snd_sbc Which doesn't work. However, in 5.2.1 this worked (which is no longer applicable in 5.3): device pcm I know this board uses MCP-T, but am not sure what it needs as far as driver support. I finally got it to work with the snd_ich driver, which is loaded at boot with: snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf, and: device sound in the kernel. Just in case anyone else is trying to get sound to work with the same board ... currently using 5.3beta6. Here it is in dmesg: # dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: Nvidia nForce2 port 0xd000-0xd07f,0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xed08-0xed080fff irq 5 at device 6.0 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: Avance Logic ALC650 AC97 Codec - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: booting beta3 on A7N8X
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... Do you have an ATI card? No. Matrox G400. Here is what my dmesg is saying: drm0: Matrox G400/G450 (AGP) mem 0xe900-0xe97f,0xe800-0xe8003fff,0xe400-0xe5ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci3 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe000 64MB info: [drm] Initialized mga 3.1.0 20021029 on minor 0 but still, when I try glxinfo it says drm: no. And glxgears gets only about 20 fps when I maximize the window. _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. Thanks for your help. Once I disabled firewire in the BIOS, the 5.3-beta3 booted and installed just fine. :o) That's funny ... you know, come to think of it I might have done this a long time ago, as I tend to configure the BIOS to just enable what I need or might use. Also, dmesg doesn't seem to indicate firewire is there, but there are a few unknowns that might be firewire. I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers, though I've read of some trouble with RAID and firewire on some OSes but haven't tried it myself. I figured if I really want to go with RAID I'll invest in a separate controller with a good reputation. Anyhoot, for general use these boards seem to work fine, and it sounds like it's not a big deal for you to not have firewire support, so there ya go. Have fun! :) - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. Thanks for your help. Once I disabled firewire in the BIOS, the 5.3-beta3 booted and installed just fine. :o) That's funny ... you know, come to think of it I might have done this a long time ago, as I tend to configure the BIOS to just enable what I need or might use. Also, dmesg doesn't seem to indicate firewire is there, but there are a few unknowns that might be firewire. I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers, though I've read of some trouble with RAID and firewire on some OSes but haven't tried it myself. I figured if I really want to go with RAID I'll invest in a separate controller with a good reputation. Anyhoot, for general use these boards seem to work fine, and it sounds like it's not a big deal for you to not have firewire support, so there ya go. Have fun! :) - jt You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work properly has been a whole different challenge ~John ___ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: booting beta3 on A7N8X
-Original Message- From: Lee Harr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X [...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... Do you have an ATI card? dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Monday 13 September 2004 02:53 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... No, but I have an ATI, and 3D works. I could switch to an nVidia graphics card if it were that important to have drm in FreeBSD, but it's not. Still, it would be nice if the card's memory were being used. It does seem that eventally even most ATI cards are fully supported, but my 9600XT is still a bit too new. As far as the reviews go, those were all on Win machines, and I wasn't considering *nix installation at the time, but had read that it generally worked for many *nix OSes with some minor issues. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Monday 13 September 2004 07:09 am, John DeStefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work properly has been a whole different challenge ~John Speaking of which, do you know which specific sound driver should be enabled in the kernel? I have: device sound device snd_sbc Which doesn't work. However, in 5.2.1 this worked (which is no longer applicable in 5.3): device pcm I know this board uses MCP-T, but am not sure what it needs as far as driver support. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one of those goofy asus A7N8X motherboards. I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. However, IIRC the onboard NIC is only supported in 5.x, which is why I ended up installing it instead of 4.10. Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so when I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it boots even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a specific error message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like what line of text is last? Today I burned a 5.3-beta3 cd and tried to boot that. It looks like it freezes at about the same place that 4.10 stops, but it is hard to tell. You should try disabling ACPI in the BIOS. I tried the set console=comconsole trick in the bootloader to try to save the boot messages from a serial console, but when I type that in, the system just immediately locks up. Well, not sure about serial console setup ... So... a few questions: Any other tricks I might try to get this to boot? (some way to disable firewire from the bootloader, maybe?) I think ACPI might be your problem, but not sure about serial consoles. Is the set console=comconsole line supposed to work? Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:10 am, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. Wait ... what do you mean? You can pull the sources and create your own CDs, but you can't use the 4.10 source to make a 5.3 system. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have. I thought the main problem was with the nforce2 chipset... I tried the Boot with ACPI disabled choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so when I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it boots even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a specific error message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like what line of text is last? There is a thread on -stable where I posted the boot messages. Here is one ... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-May/007428.html Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. Wait ... what do you mean? You can pull the sources and create your own CDs, but you can't use the 4.10 source to make a 5.3 system. Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system... Thanks for your time. _ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabling firewire in bios? Gary Lee Harr wrote: I tried the Boot with ACPI disabled choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. ... Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:26 am, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have. I thought the main problem was with the nforce2 chipset... I tried the Boot with ACPI disabled choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. OK, something else you probably want to do is add this line: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to /boot/device.hints Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so when I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it boots even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a specific error message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like what line of text is last? There is a thread on -stable where I posted the boot messages. Here is one ... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-May/007428.htm l I'm not entirely sure, but I think if you disable ACPI in device.hints and in the BIOS you'll be ok. Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. Wait ... what do you mean? You can pull the sources and create your own CDs, but you can't use the 4.10 source to make a 5.3 system. Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system... Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. ... Well... my thought was [...] On 2004-09-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabling firewire in bios? That works perfectly. Thank you. On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. Thanks for your help. Once I disabled firewire in the BIOS, the 5.3-beta3 booted and installed just fine. :o) _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
