Re: ACPI trouble with EPIA-M

From: Harald Schmalzbauer (h_at_schmalzbauer.de)
Date: 10/24/03

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    To: Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@web.de>, current@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:14:55 +0200

    On Wednesday 22 October 2003 22:22, Thorsten Greiner wrote:
    > Hi everybody,
    >
    > I have a VIA EPIA-M 10000 board which works mostly when I disable
    > ACPI in the bios. Unfortunately the parallel port is controlled by
    > some Super-IO chip and is not recognized during boot. The same holds
    > true for serial ports and the floppy controller.
    >
    > When I enable ACPI in the bios the machine boots normally and
    > recognizes the parallel port BUT stops after displaying the hd/cdrom
    > identification , at the point where it would normally start init
    > (before the "Mounting root from ..." is displayed).
    >
    > At this point it just stops. I can break into DDB but nothing
    > else...

    Sorry, I can't help you but I'd like to confirm this. Since I don't need the
    ParPort my workarround was to disable the ParPort in the BIOS. Then I had no
    problems with ACPI.

    -Harry

    >
    > This machine is running a custom kernel based on GENERIC with
    > several device drivers removed and debugging stuff disabled (DDB is
    > still there), cvsupped Oct 17. There are no ACPI error messages
    > displayed during the boot process.
    >
    > I will happily provide more information on request. Please help me
    > to get this parallel port going as I want to hook up my printer
    > there. Thanks!
    >
    > Regards
    > -Thorsten

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