Re: FreeBSD and HP nx9105

2005-05-10 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Well the problem is I do not know why I had got to the sysinstall menu however the keyboard simply does not work. So dead end. I think I know what dmesg does (I assume it's the same on FreeBSD as on sorry Linux) but if the kernel halts you won't be able to run anything. I wish I had a bit more time

Re: FreeBSD and HP nx9105

2005-05-10 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
Adi Pircalabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There is an extra hint to pass at boot time: > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" > Ok at least it got futher I booted to the boot loader and added the following "hints": set 'hw.acpi.skip_timer_override=1' set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" set hint.acpi.0.disabl

Re: FreeBSD and HP nx9105

2005-05-10 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:26:33 +0200 Friedrich Dominicus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read the reports other have send. Just did not have found a way > to solve the problem that FreeBSD shut ofs the computer during boot. [...] I have a HP nx9105 which, at this time, runs 5.4-STABLE. Install

Re: FreeBSD and HP nx9105

2005-05-10 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
small addition I found out how to disable acpi. I know have done the following: started the system, on the first chance to choose something in the screen Welcome to FreeBSD I tped in 6 to get to the boot loader it seems to that time /boot/device.hints has been read so one can get the values and/or

FreeBSD and HP nx9105

2005-05-10 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
I have read the reports other have send. Just did not have found a way to solve the problem that FreeBSD shut ofs the computer during boot. I tried to switch to the console and typed disable-module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko but while booting one sees that this module is still loaded. I checked the B