Re: Netbsd 4.0 hangs on AMD64 athlon dual core on nvidia board

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:37:45AM +0000, vincentd wrote:
> I've got some issues with my new hardware ;(.
> "
> cpu: AMD ATHLON 64 X2 4800+ SOCKET AM2
> motherboard: MSI K9N NEO F V2
> RAM:2 GB DDRII 667 MHZ
> Storage:        320 GB SATA II
> CDROM:  DVD +/- RW 2 layers SATA
> GRAPHIC: NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GT 512 MB
> "

Nforce 520. I recall someone having issues
with hard drives not being detected on this
chipset in 4.0, I think this may have been fixed
since then.
 
> How to enable my cdrom on netbsd ?
> 
> Should I back to a 32bit version ?
> Should I back to netbsd 3.1 ?
 
I'd try -current, ACPI support has been significantly
improved since 4.0.  Also, it's ACPI support is easily
disabled via boot.conf.

        Jonathan Kollasch