SMP And ATI chipsets

Shame if you don't support the ATI chipsets with ACPI. I have been 
playing around with A MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and too bad you do 
not have the resources to get to purchase one to get it to work as it 
could be an easy one to get going as it almost runs all the way up to 
the PMshell with OS2APIC.add. It does recognize 4 processors with a 
Phenom 3850. With the current ACPI driver a little later that 3.09 it 

Eugene Tucker wrote:
> Shame if you don't support the ATI chipsets with ACPI. I have been 
> playing around with A MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and too bad you do 
> not have the resources to get to purchase one to get it to work as it 
> could be an easy one to get going as it almost runs all the way up to 
> the PMshell with OS2APIC.add. It does recognize 4 processors with a 
> Phenom 3850. With the current ACPI driver a little later that 3.09 it 
> locks up right at the logo screen. No matter which switches I use.
I have an ATI chipset board and ATI almost works. I am looking for the
best place to post my experiences but I can tell you this much now and
you might find it helpful.
1. A cold cold boot is essential.
2. An ALT-f1 boot with hardware detection is necessary. I don't know if
the detection is that important but slowing down the boot is.
I have found waiting a bit(maybe 2 secs) before letting the PMSHELL 
command get executed helped > There were many other probs but I dont
think thes is the best place. I dont know exactly which command is not

Leo Tick wrote:
> Eugene Tucker wrote:
>> Shame if you don't support the ATI chipsets with ACPI. I have been 
>> playing around with A MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and too bad you do

>> not have the resources to get to purchase one to get it to work as it 
>> could be an easy one to get going as it almost runs all the way up to 
>> the PMshell with OS2APIC.add. It does recognize 4 processors with a 
>> Phenom 3850. With the current ACPI driver a little later that 3.09 it 
>> locks up right at the logo screen. No matter which switches I use.
> I have an ATI chipset board and ATI almost works. I am looking for the
> best place to post my experiences but I can tell you this much now and
> you might find it helpful.
> 1. A cold cold boot is essential.
> 2. An ALT-f1 boot with hardware detection is necessary. I don't know if
> the detection is that important but slowing down the boot is.
> I have found waiting a bit(maybe 2 secs) before letting the PMSHELL 
> command get executed helped > There were many other probs but I dont
> think thes is the best place. I dont know exactly which command is not
> completing before SNAP is loaded. Play arounfd and let me know

Eugene Tucker wrote:
> Leo Tick wrote:
>> Eugene Tucker wrote:
>>> Shame if you don't support the ATI chipsets with ACPI. I have been

>>> playing around with A MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and too bad you

>>> do not have the resources to get to purchase one to get it to work
as 
>>> it could be an easy one to get going as it almost runs all the way
up 
>>> to the PMshell with OS2APIC.add. It does recognize 4 processors
with 
>>> a Phenom 3850. With the current ACPI driver a little later that
3.09 
>>> it locks up right at the logo screen. No matter which switches I
use.
>> I have an ATI chipset board and ATI almost works. I am looking for the
>> best place to post my experiences but I can tell you this much now and
>> you might find it helpful.
>> 1. A cold cold boot is essential.
>> 2. An ALT-f1 boot with hardware detection is necessary. I don't know
if
>> the detection is that important but slowing down the boot is.
>> I have found waiting a bit(maybe 2 secs) before letting the PMSHELL 
>> command get executed helped > There were many other probs but I
dont
>> think thes is the best place. I dont know exactly which command is not
>> completing before SNAP is loaded. Play arounfd and let me know
> 
> 
> By the way what switches do you use with the PSD?

Eugene Tucker wrote:
> Shame if you don't support the ATI chipsets with ACPI. I have been 
> playing around with A MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and too bad you do 
> not have the resources to get to purchase one to get it to work as it 
> could be an easy one to get going as it almost runs all the way up to 
> the PMshell with OS2APIC.add. It does recognize 4 processors with a 
> Phenom 3850. With the current ACPI driver a little later that 3.09 it 
> locks up right at the logo screen. No matter which switches I use.

Pasha has received money to get ACPI working with the AMD chipset.

Roderick Klein