On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:49 AM, elot <samthol...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey,i have an intel core 2 duo CPU E7300 with an ASUS motherboard and > an nvidia 8500GT/PCI/SSE2 graphic card.i tried to install plan9 but it > stops at a part that says irq 3 routing and wont even bring up the > boot options.i looked at the list of supported hardware and i've been > on the freenodes but no luck.what could be wrong?
It would be useful to see your full output. This could be a bad IRQ routing table, coupled with the BIOS messing up IRQ setup in a way that Windows or Linux might fix but Plan 9 can not. At this point, on SMP machines, there are three tables that could be used to provide routing for IRQs: - $PIR (frequently wrong, not usually used if _MP_ is found) - _MP_ mostly right but ... - ACPI usually right (but not always!) Plan 9 does not parse acpi yet. This is going to hurt us more and more because in many case, motherboard manufacturers do a very poor job of setting up the other two tables. We've seen cases where the $PIR table was just copied from one board to a totally different board with no changes. If somebody wants a project ACPI is out there waiting. Warning: ACPI will make your eyes bleed; it's that bad unless you think FOUR CHAR NAME _ARE GOOD _FOR ALL_ USES (well that's the least worst part of it). Can you get some serial output for us to see? ron
