Re: Abit KV8Pro (VIA 8237) and viaide lost interrupts @ Sata HD

[David <not4rent%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello 
Manuel.

I'll try updating the bios, and write here back with the results.

Thanks.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:26:45AM +0200, David wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I searched through the list about this issue and all the posts send me back
> in time to 2005:
>
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=viaide+lost+interrupt&group=gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64
>
> But the true is that trying to do a fresh install of  yesterday's
> NetBSD-Daily compilation, i got the "famous" error.
>
> Everything seems to work OK, if I install with the NO ACPI option, but I
> refuse to believe that the problem has not been fixed since 2005.

This is typical of an interrupt routing problem, so the issue would
be either in the NetBSD ACPI code or in the ACPI table of the BIOS.
Did you look for a BIOS upgrade ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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