Subject: Re: bge problems on i915
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/03/2005 12:56:13
In article <B137DA0C-534E-4AB1-948D-B330A5C2D785@dtcc.edu>,
	Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> writes:
> PXE boot rom and Windows dual-boot are working fine.

Does NetBSD works with the card if you enable PXE, let fail and the
system boots from disk afterwards?

> ...
> bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1400, bit 0x00000002
> bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> ...

Could you please post the message that the kernel prints out when it
detects the card?

> To make matters more strange, booting windows seems to have fixed bge  
> in NetBSD. Now it's working again when it wasn't previously, after  
> about 10 cold boots of trying different kernels.

I don't think that is strange. I suspect that our bge driver doesn't
initialize the chip properly.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/