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author | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-08 22:38:39 +0000 |
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committer | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-08 22:38:39 +0000 |
commit | 23f364510d32579daa9742be998973a9fc129166 (patch) | |
tree | 5d1b28faa63448d0ddc1d28c61b8f4bc920740b9 | |
parent | eb2af5051672cf64b9f8dff5455bd59ae9e0b1c4 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-23f364510d32579daa9742be998973a9fc129166.zip FreeBSD-src-23f364510d32579daa9742be998973a9fc129166.tar.gz |
Add hints about nForce3 issues
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml index 0b97fbd..be7b97d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ <sect2> <title>Common Installation Problems for &arch.print; Architecture Users</title> - <qandaset arch="i386"> + <qandaset arch="i386,amd64"> <qandaentry> <question> <para>My system hangs while probing hardware during boot, or it @@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> + <qandaentry arch="amd64"> + <question> + <para>My system uses the nVidia nForce3 Pro-150 chipset and I get hangs + at the end of boot or suddenly starts losing interrupts.</para> + </question> + <answer> + <para>There are problems with the apic on this chipset and/or the + bios on every machine that we had seen at the time of release. + While disabling ACPI as above will work, a less drastic option may + be to set the <quote>hint.apic.0.disabled</quote> hint instead. + If you have the option in the bios, try disabling the APIC support. + Unfortunately some machines lack this option. + </para> + </answer> + </qandaentry> <qandaentry> <question> <para>My legacy ISA device used to be recognized in previous versions |