compaq 6515b turion x2 laptop

[rar102 at ra.msstate.edu]

Quoting Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org>:

Yes!!! thank you.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to another amd64 box to
try your patch.  Sorry.  But, I will look at the dmesg and send it to you.

> RAR,
>
> You are in luck! Well, actually I have good news and I have bad news.
> The good news is that I have nearly the same (6715b) laptop and
> experienced similar problems when getting FreeBSD onto it. After some
> work, I've been able to use FreeBSD reliably on the system.
>
> The bad news is that you probably have an overlap of PCI memory ranges
> between the SATA controller and another device in the system (likely the
> audio controller).
>
> I put up a page describing the problem here:
>
http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#getting_the_hp_compaq_6715b_working
>
> Specifically, read this section:
>
http://www.cokane.org/dokuwiki/freebsd/amd64_compatibility#the_onboard_ati_sb600_hda_audio_controller
>
> Give me the weekend, and I will post a 7.0-RELEASE CD with the patch in
> it. I figured that I should have done it a while ago. Oh well.
>
> While you are at it, see if you can use Scroll-Lock and the up/down keys
> to read the kernel messages. See if you can find the atapci0 probe line
> for your SATA controller (AHCI), as well as the line for your pcm0
> device and send them back to me. I can add your info to my webpage to
> help others.
>
> It will look like this:
> atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port
> 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f mem
> 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
> ...
> pcm0: <ATI SB600 High Definition Audio Controller> mem 0xd0608000-0xd060bfff
> irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0
>
> You'll notice the "mem" resource for the audio controller is
> 0xd0608000-0xd060bff, and the "mem" resource for the SATA controller is
> 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff. The SATA controller's "mem" resource is
> completely covered by this audio controller.
>
> If you happen to have access to another machine for building your own
> releases, you can try my patch and build them from it.
>
> --
> Coleman Kane
>