Problems with a Acer Aspire

[Kent Palmkvist]

At 18:36 2005-02-11, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>On Friday 11 February 2005 10:35 am, Astrodog wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:43:02 +0100, Kent Palmkvist
><kentp at isy.liu.se> wrote:
  ...snip...
> > > by Kelly Black that solved a problem with the Compaq Presario
> > > R3000z (http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/) but with same
> > > disapointing results.
> > >
> > > Solution:
> > > Disable the Legacy USB Support in the bios setup (at least
  ...snip...
> >
> > Tried the R3000Z line of patches? Might relate.
>
>If I am not mistaken completely, his problem is not related to my
>patches.  Acer Aspire 1522 WLMi has VIA chipsets and they have
>different issues.  In fact, I have Acer Ferrari 3400 and I had
>experienced similar problems before.  I am using 6-CURRENT on it now.
>
>BTW, 'turning off USB legacy support fixed problem' sounds like he has
>C0 revision core (i. e., errata #93) without BIOS workaround.  You
>can see the CPU ID from dmesg:
>
>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (2000.08-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0xf48  Stepping = 8
>
>This is from my desktop.  If the Id is 0xf48, you have C0 revision
>core.  FYI, Ferrari 3400 has Oakville core!
>
>CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x10fc0  Stepping = 0
>
>Jung-uk Kim

I was under the impression that the Kelly Black ISO image would contain a
release with the R3000Z patches applied. The ISO image from that site
showed the same errors as the standard 5.3-RELEASE CD. I could be wrong
of course.

My CPU turns out to be:
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (1801.03-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "AutheticAMD"  Id = 0xf4a  Stepping = 10

And you are right, the laptop is built around a VIA chipset.

Current problems with the machine includes non-working USB (not detecting
new devices), non-working cardbus (complaining about Vcc request). I got the
machine on tripple-boot (XP, FreeBSD 5.3 i386 and amd64). I am also
thinking of installing 6-current (it is nice with big discs).

/Kent



Kent Palmkvist
Electronics Systems
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linkoping University
S-581 83 Linkoping
Sweden

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