Hi, I have a gateway MX3410 laptop, and when I try to install, sysinstall hangs or has unimaginable lag time, and then my laptop just sends out this constant system beep at me. Is there a problem with FreeBSD and AMD Turion CPUs? I hear a few other people are having problems with various AMD chipsets, in particular Turions with the same exact problem. Is there a workaround or patch to installing FreeBSD on my Gateway (AMD Turion 64-x2 technology)? Thanks. Russell
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Russell Doucette <ota@animenfo.com> writes:
: Hi,
:
: I have a gateway MX3410 laptop, and when I try to install, sysinstall
: hangs or has unimaginable lag time, and then my laptop just sends out
: this constant system beep at me. Is there a problem with FreeBSD and
: AMD Turion CPUs? I hear a few other people are having problems with
: various AMD chipsets, in particular Turions with the same exact problem.
:
: Is there a workaround or patch to installing FreeBSD on my Gateway (AMD
: Turion 64-x2 technology)? Thanks.
My HP Pavilion dv5000 works:
CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 (1994.21-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20f42 Stepping = 2
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
but I don't know if that's the 'X2' technology or not. In fact,
this
has worked great for me since a week or two after BSDcan last year.
Warner
On Fri, 04 May 2007 11:35:10 -0400 Russell Doucette <ota@animenfo.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I have a gateway MX3410 laptop, and when I try to install, > sysinstall hangs or has unimaginable lag time, and then my laptop > just sends out this constant system beep at me. Is there a problem > with FreeBSD and AMD Turion CPUs? I hear a few other people are > having problems with various AMD chipsets, in particular Turions > with the same exact problem. > > Is there a workaround or patch to installing FreeBSD on my Gateway > (AMD Turion 64-x2 technology)? Thanks. >Try disabling apic (read: apic, not acpi). set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 through loader prompt. The drawback is that other cpu cores will not be enabled. Update to latest -stable if you want to re-enable apic. -- Ariff Abdullah FreeBSD ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070504/0eb210a2/attachment.pgp