cardbus not powered when ACPI is enabled

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 26 21:48:08 UTC 2007


On Monday 23 April 2007 04:14:34 pm Lars Engels wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:03:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:31:12 +0200
> > > From: Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net>
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > like I already described in another mail some weeks ago on my Samsung
> > > Q35 notebook cards inserted into the pcmcia slot do not get powered=20
> > > with a kernel newer than from january.=20
> > > I now selected the option "Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode" and the card is
> > > powered and recognized.
> > > After playing around in beastie.4th, disabling the entries
> > >   hint.acpi.0.disabled
> > >   loader.acpi_disabled_by_user
> > >   hint.apic.0.disabled
> > > are causing the card to work.
> > > 
> > > However, it does not work when I select "Boot with ACPI disabled".
> > 
> > "Boot with ACPI disabled" only disables ACPI. Safe mode also disables
> > APIC. 
> > 
> > Does the system boot correctly in safe mode? Does it boot with only APIC
> > disabled but ACPI enabled?
> 
> 
> Yes, it boots correctly with only APIC disabled and ACPI enabled. But
> then I again have the cardbus problem.

So it always boots ok?  Which combinations of ACPI on/off and APIC on/off 
allow the cardbus card to work?

-- 
John Baldwin


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