Subject: Re: kern/36375: problem with interrupts on L440GX mainboard
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/22/2007 21:14:02
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:50:02PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/36375; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
> To: aniou@smutek.pl
> Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: kern/36375: problem with interrupts on L440GX mainboard
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:48:25 +0100
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:20:02PM +0000, Juan RP wrote:
> > That's related to ACPI being enabled by default. There are plans to
> > provide a GENERIC.NOACPI by default for systems without working ACPI.
> >
> > Please try to disable ACPI with userconf (boot -c).
>
> Other options you could try are (in that order):
>
> 1.) Update the BIOS. In took quite a few BIOS updates before MPACPI
> worked on my 440BX chipset motherboard a few years back.
>
> 2.) Disable ACPI support in the BIOS.
3.) boot INSTALL instead of INSTALL_LARGE. I doubt there are devices supported
only in INSTALL_LARGE on this system.
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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