Re: FreeBSD install problem on Asus A6T laptop.

From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:23:34 +0800

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:38 +0200
Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:31:21PM +0400, stas.ibragimov@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

I am attemping to install FreeBSD Current into this laptop.System
boot well, but working very very slow(switching to next virtual
console took 5-10 minutes). What could be the reason of this?

Hi,

I've had a similar problem with an A7T, if I'm not mistaken it's due
to a bug in the thurion timer, you can use
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt="0"
in your loader.conf as a workaround.

This has been fixed few hours ago.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=401120+0+current/cvs-src

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