ECS/PCChips G713 - PCI problems

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 25 June 2004 05:17 pm, Marcos Hiroshi Umino wrote:
>   Hello freemen.
>
>   I'm new to the BSD world, I use gentoo linux on my notebook and I now
> need to use freebsd in a server I'm managing. To better learn the tricks of
> the OS, I decided to install freebsd on my notebook, an ECS/PCChips G713,
> Sis746FX/963, Ati Radeon 9000M, Athlon XP-M 1600+.
>
>   From my linux experience, I already know it's ACPI and APIC
> implementation is very buggy. However, disabling both (and enabling APM) I
> did had success installing linux on it. It's kernel is gentoo-2.6.7, quite
> stable.
>
>   However, booting from the installation FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD, I have to
> disable ACPI, it does boot, but no PCI device is recognized. It seems a
> very rare error, because no googling I did reported such problem.
>
>   It does recognizes some unknown PNP devices, I can send these here, but
> since the number of specific mailing lists is big, I decided first to ask
> for advice. Should I try to solve it here or somewhere else?
>
>   Anyway, some more data I gathered:
>
>   I guess all the problems track down to the BIOS ACPI implementation.
> Gentoo looks to be gathering PCI data not from ACPI, but somewhere else.
> I'm no kernel expert, so I have no idea how it is done.
>
>   pciconf -lv returns *NO* data, no error message, nothing. It simply
> returns to the prompt. I see no data on /dev/pci. Booting with ACPI orders
> me to reboot, last message says something about ACPI not able to gather pci
> device table. Booting without ACPI tells me some unknown PNP devices
> weren't enabled.

Can you write down the exact error message you get telling you to reboot?


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