Re: nforce2 vs. apic
on 16.09.2004 23:35 yuri van Overmeeren said the following: ... You could check the abit site and update/flash the mainboard with the latest bios. but I'm not sure about the 'official' fixed status of the nf7 and nf7 V2.0. Btw when flashing the bios make sure you get the correct bios, you can check your board to see if you have a normal NF7 or NF7 v2.0. flashing it with the wrong bios means bye bye bios. this is the next thing on my list, thanks -I suggest chipmakers make a new standard for something and call it 'apci', just to keep things clear...- the more the merrier -- Andriy Gapon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 vs. apic
on 17.09.2004 00:18 Vulpes Velox said the following: I own a Abit NF7 Yeah... I remember this. A bit... I remember having to tweak it a bit to get it to play nicely. IIRC 5.2.1 does not have apic in by defualt? I may just haved removed it... I forget now, but any ways. Before trying apic, make sure your kernel has it. If your kernel does not, go into the setup screen and turn it off. I never had any ACPI problems with it and that has all ways worked well, minus a warning about a odd character or the like in it at startup. I have also never had any ACPI problems, and everything is fine if APIC is disabled either in BIOS or in kernel, but when it is enabled in both the system freezes. So far my only complaint with it has been the onboard vr ethernet chip appears to suck compared to the dc pci card I have been using. Not taken the time to sort that out yet. Appears some what slow under heavy load. Think that has to do with a problem with device polling for that chipset. Btw, to be precise I have NF7-S and I use network driver from ports/net/nvnet, works fine for me, although I never did any performance benchmarking. -- Andriy Gapon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nforce2 vs. apic
I have nforce2-based motherboard Abit NF7 and run 5.2.1-RELEASE on that system. I have tried to enable APIC by compiling kernel with 'device apic' (both with and without SMP option, although this is a UP system), but system just freezes during boot with it. Everything works pretty well without APIC, I was just curious about getting it to work. I found this discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027316.html and I have also found numerous reports on nforce2+APIC lockup problem in Linux and some patches that were reported to help with it. So, I want to find out if anything changed with respect to this in FreeBSD, maybe some patches/workarounds, or success stories about FreeBSD+nforce2+APIC. Also some notes about my lockup. It happens at this point (exerpt for non-verbose non-APIC dmesg): psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: System console on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 1830012912 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default In APIC case system freezes here GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6e15e60 ad0: 76319MB WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDRW TEAC CD-W552E at ata1-master UDMA33 Also, when system freezes keyboard LEDs still work properly and cursor disappears when I press Scroll Lock, but arrow and PgUp/PgDown do not work; if I try Alt-FN system speacker emits monotonic sound that can not be turned off (except by reset, of course). I am ready to provide any additional information. Unfortunately I am not able to use serial console, so I can't give much info for APIC-enabled case. -- Andriy Gapon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 vs. apic
Andriy Gapon wrote: I have nforce2-based motherboard Abit NF7 and run 5.2.1-RELEASE on that system. I have tried to enable APIC by compiling kernel with 'device apic' (both with and without SMP option, although this is a UP system), but system just freezes during boot with it. Everything works pretty well without APIC, I was just curious about getting it to work. I found this discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027316.html and I have also found numerous reports on nforce2+APIC lockup problem in Linux and some patches that were reported to help with it. So, I want to find out if anything changed with respect to this in FreeBSD, maybe some patches/workarounds, or success stories about FreeBSD+nforce2+APIC. Also some notes about my lockup. It happens at this point (exerpt for non-verbose non-APIC dmesg): psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: System console on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 1830012912 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default In APIC case system freezes here GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6e15e60 ad0: 76319MB WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDRW TEAC CD-W552E at ata1-master UDMA33 Also, when system freezes keyboard LEDs still work properly and cursor disappears when I press Scroll Lock, but arrow and PgUp/PgDown do not work; if I try Alt-FN system speacker emits monotonic sound that can not be turned off (except by reset, of course). I am ready to provide any additional information. Unfortunately I am not able to use serial console, so I can't give much info for APIC-enabled case. 5.2.1 freezes on a nforce2 mainboard with apci, I have a nforce2 (same abit board) based machine here running freebsd, never got the 5.2.1-release to work with acpi. It was fixed a little while after the release, 5-current has been running on the nforce2 for a while. If you can wait untill the 5.3-release,which should be in about 2~3 weeks, (and run 5.2.1 without acpi for that time) I would do that, 5.3 no longer has the lock-up issue. -yuri ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 vs. apic
on 16.09.2004 15:46 yuri van Overmeeren said the following: 5.2.1 freezes on a nforce2 mainboard with apci, I have a nforce2 (same abit board) based machine here running freebsd, never got the 5.2.1-release to work with acpi. It was fixed a little while after the release, 5-current has been running on the nforce2 for a while. If you can wait untill the 5.3-release,which should be in about 2~3 weeks, (and run 5.2.1 without acpi for that time) I would do that, 5.3 no longer has the lock-up issue. Yuri, have you really talked about acpi or apic ? Because I was talking about apic. I have acpi enabled and apic disabled and that works fine. But I want to try to enable apic. -- Andriy Gapon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 vs. apic
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 16.09.2004 15:46 yuri van Overmeeren said the following: 5.2.1 freezes on a nforce2 mainboard with apci, I have a nforce2 (same abit board) based machine here running freebsd, never got the 5.2.1-release to work with acpi. It was fixed a little while after the release, 5-current has been running on the nforce2 for a while. If you can wait untill the 5.3-release,which should be in about 2~3 weeks, (and run 5.2.1 without acpi for that time) I would do that, 5.3 no longer has the lock-up issue. Yuri, have you really talked about acpi or apic ? Because I was talking about apic. I have acpi enabled and apic disabled and that works fine. But I want to try to enable apic. :) oopsy I was talking about acpi, since that was also in the url you referred too (I should read better -smacks self). From what I've heard the apic doesn't work too well on nforce2 boards, appearantly there is an updated version of the bios that might fix this problem, I've read somewhere (little while ago) of a beta version of the new abit nf7 bios that fixes apic problems. You could check the abit site and update/flash the mainboard with the latest bios. but I'm not sure about the 'official' fixed status of the nf7 and nf7 V2.0. Btw when flashing the bios make sure you get the correct bios, you can check your board to see if you have a normal NF7 or NF7 v2.0. flashing it with the wrong bios means bye bye bios. -I suggest chipmakers make a new standard for something and call it 'apci', just to keep things clear...- -yuri ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 vs. apic
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:14:55 +0300 Andriy Gapon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have nforce2-based motherboard Abit NF7 and run 5.2.1-RELEASE on that system. I have tried to enable APIC by compiling kernel with 'device apic' (both with and without SMP option, although this is a UP system), but system just freezes during boot with it. Everything works pretty well without APIC, I was just curious about getting it to work. I found this discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027316.html and I have also found numerous reports on nforce2+APIC lockup problem in Linux and some patches that were reported to help with it. So, I want to find out if anything changed with respect to this in FreeBSD, maybe some patches/workarounds, or success stories about FreeBSD+nforce2+APIC. Also some notes about my lockup. It happens at this point (exerpt for non-verbose non-APIC dmesg): psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: System console on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 1830012912 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ipfw2 initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default In APIC case system freezes here GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6e15e60 ad0: 76319MB WDC WD800JB-00ETA0 [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDRW TEAC CD-W552E at ata1-master UDMA33 Also, when system freezes keyboard LEDs still work properly and cursor disappears when I press Scroll Lock, but arrow and PgUp/PgDown do not work; if I try Alt-FN system speacker emits monotonic sound that can not be turned off (except by reset, of course). I am ready to provide any additional information. Unfortunately I am not able to use serial console, so I can't give much info for APIC-enabled case. I own a Abit NF7 Yeah... I remember this. A bit... I remember having to tweak it a bit to get it to play nicely. IIRC 5.2.1 does not have apic in by defualt? I may just haved removed it... I forget now, but any ways. Before trying apic, make sure your kernel has it. If your kernel does not, go into the setup screen and turn it off. I never had any ACPI problems with it and that has all ways worked well, minus a warning about a odd character or the like in it at startup. I also ran into another problem of my board not liking two ram sticks in dual channel mode... would cause a lock up around booting... iirc it would nearly finish and then lock up and KB LEDs would work a bit. So far my only complaint with it has been the onboard vr ethernet chip appears to suck compared to the dc pci card I have been using. Not taken the time to sort that out yet. Appears some what slow under heavy load. Think that has to do with a problem with device polling for that chipset. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
