Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > 
> > 2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations:
> > 
> > Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0
> > Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 
> > 00f0 tfd c0 serr  cmd c617
> > Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
> > Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 0001 ss  rs 
> > 0001 tfd c0 serr  cmd c017
> > Jun  2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 
> > 31000ms (tfd = 0080)
> > 
> > I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on
> > the previous system.
> 
> The cable is OK. I have tried different SATA slots on the motherbord too,
> the HDD losses persist. How can a rule out a kernel driver bug in ahci
> or ada, perhaps a PR is due?

Well, there is already a very similar PR kern/161248

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> 
> 2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations:
> 
> Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0
> Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 
> 00f0 tfd c0 serr  cmd c617
> Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
> Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 0001 ss  rs 
> 0001 tfd c0 serr  cmd c017
> Jun  2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 
> 31000ms (tfd = 0080)
> 
> I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on
> the previous system.

The cable is OK. I have tried different SATA slots on the motherbord too,
the HDD losses persist. How can a rule out a kernel driver bug in ahci
or ada, perhaps a PR is due?

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-07 Thread Victor Sudakov
Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
> VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
> VS> often watch movies on it.
> 
> I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the
> 'driver nv' that is 'just enough' for watching movies.
> 
> I've no modern hardware but the model that works good for years for
> me is: tnt2 agp 32M. Just the same as out of every TransNeft's
> trashcan around the corner these days. ;-)

They gave me the following from the TransNeft trashcan, indeed:

VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName   "NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
Driver  "nv"

It says "AGP" but in reality it is PCI, perhaps some very rare species
:) It has X-Video Extension version 2.2, my movies are back, hurrah!

In the meanwhile, I'll wait for the development of the SandyBrdige
Intel driver.

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Warren Block

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote:


On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:07:45 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote:

Hello.

2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov  => To 
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
VS> often watch movies on it.

I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the
'driver nv' that is 'just enough' for watching movies.


I'm also using nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) here, using the
"nvidia" driver and the kernel module. Works very good, except
my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system
in an unpredictable manner. :-)

Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with
less trouble, using XFree86's (and later on X.org's) stock
"ati" driver.

Any not-too-recent card should work fine.


More specifically, up to 4000-series Radeons.  The HD4650 works well.
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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:07:45 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> 2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov  => To 
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
> VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
> VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
> VS> often watch movies on it.
> 
> I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the
> 'driver nv' that is 'just enough' for watching movies.

I'm also using nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) here, using the
"nvidia" driver and the kernel module. Works very good, except
my GPU is broken and occassionally freezes the whole system
in an unpredictable manner. :-)

Previously I've been using an ATI Radeon 9200 (RV250) with
less trouble, using XFree86's (and later on X.org's) stock
"ati" driver.

Any not-too-recent card should work fine.



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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean

On 06/02/12 12:07, Peter Vereshagin wrote:

I am using a MSI N210 w/ FreeBSD 9-Stable.

Seems to work Ok.

Tom Dean
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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello.

2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov  => To 
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
VS> often watch movies on it.

I'd try with nvidia. Any modern one has support of 'xvideo' extension with the
'driver nv' that is 'just enough' for watching movies.

I've no modern hardware but the model that works good for years for me is: tnt2
agp 32M. Just the same as out of every TransNeft's trashcan around the corner
these days. ;-)

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > 2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations:
> >
> > Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0
> > Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 
> > 00f0 tfd c0 serr  cmd c617
> > Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
> > Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 0001 ss  rs 
> > 0001 tfd c0 serr  cmd c017
> > Jun  2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 
> > 31000ms (tfd = 0080)
> >
> > I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on
> > the previous system.
> 
> well i've had such problems regularly with many motherboard. It happens 
> often when you have many disks and put heavy load on them. 

Indeed this happens under load. I would not call it particularly
heavy though, it's more like moving large files between zfs datasets
causes the loss of drive.

> And it is only 
> result of poor hardware (not sure - poor controller, motherboard design, 
> both?).
> 
> i tried changing disks, ports, until i replaced this server with dell 
> poweredge ;)

Can we be sure that it is not a bug in the ahci or ada driver? Is
there a way to reinit and reattach the failed drive?

> 
> if this is quite random, swapping ports change the behaviour but not 
> solve it, swapping cables does not, yet there is no real rule when and why 
> it happens you have same problem that i've had.

Could it have been a power problem?

> > 3. I had to run xorg in VESA mode, because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_4 does
> > not recognize the video chip on the motherboard on question. That is a
> 
> tried this from ports?
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 18 maj 16:49 xf86-video-intel29

Yes, I have too. It says "no device detected" or something like that.
> 
> depends of hardware model.
> 
> actually intel GFX is the only one i tolerate and it works.
> 
> Eg the one in my lenovo G550 laptop needs 2.7 driver, the one builtin in 
> Atom D525 processor needs 2.9 driver.
> 
> Completely new intel GFX are not YET supported but that what i only 
> heard as i don't have any of them.

What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I
often watch movies on it.

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar

2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations:

Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0
Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 
00f0 tfd c0 serr  cmd c617
Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 0001 ss  rs 
0001 tfd c0 serr  cmd c017
Jun  2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms 
(tfd = 0080)

I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on
the previous system.


well i've had such problems regularly with many motherboard. It happens 
often when you have many disks and put heavy load on them. And it is only 
result of poor hardware (not sure - poor controller, motherboard design, 
both?).


i tried changing disks, ports, until i replaced this server with dell 
poweredge ;)



if this is quite random, swapping ports change the behaviour but not 
solve it, swapping cables does not, yet there is no real rule when and why 
it happens you have same problem that i've had.




3. I had to run xorg in VESA mode, because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_4 does
not recognize the video chip on the motherboard on question. That is a


tried this from ports?
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 18 maj 16:49 xf86-video-intel29

depends of hardware model.

actually intel GFX is the only one i tolerate and it works.

Eg the one in my lenovo G550 laptop needs 2.7 driver, the one builtin in 
Atom D525 processor needs 2.9 driver.


Completely new intel GFX are not YET supported but that what i only 
heard as i don't have any of them.


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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on this motherboard with the following
brief results:

$ cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  (play/rec) default
pcm1:  (play/rec)
pcm2:  (play)
pcm3:  (play)
pcm4:  (play)
$

The devices /dev/dsp0, /dev/dsp1 even play to different audio outputs
(front panel and rear panel). 

However, there are some more or less serious problems:

1. The "green" console screensaver does not poweroff the monitor. It just
blanks the screen and sometimes displays white rubbish thereon.

2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations:

Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0
Jun  2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 00c0 ss 00f0 rs 
00f0 tfd c0 serr  cmd c617
Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0
Jun  2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is  cs 0001 ss  rs 
0001 tfd c0 serr  cmd c017
Jun  2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms 
(tfd = 0080)

I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on
the previous system.

3. I had to run xorg in VESA mode, because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_4 does
not recognize the video chip on the motherboard on question. That is a
pain! mplayer is incredibly slow on all movies. It complains that "your
system is too slow to play this" and gives a plethora of obscure
recommendations, but I basically thought that the sheer CPU power should be
sufficient to play the video. Is there a solution which "just works"?
Replacing mplayer with something else? Buying a video card (what model)?

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-05-17 Thread Shane Ambler

On 17/05/2012 14:31, Victor Sudakov wrote:


Thanks for the good news. Can you please show 'cat /dev/sndstat' and
what the kernel thinks about the NIC (is it the re(4) driver?)


cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  (play)
pcm1:  (play)
pcm2:  (play/rec) default
pcm3:  (play/rec)
pcm4:  (play)

dmesg

hdac0: HDA Codec #0: NVidia (Unknown)
pcm0:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
pcm1:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0
hdac1: HDA Codec #0: Realtek ALC887
pcm2:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac1
pcm3:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac1
pcm4:  at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac1

re0:  port 
0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf2104000-0xf2104fff,0xf210-0xf2103fff irq 18 at 
device 0.0 on pci4

re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: Chip rev. 0x2c80
re0: MAC rev. 0x
miibus0:  on re0
rgephy0:  PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 
100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 
1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 
1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow

re0: Ethernet address: 14:da:xx:xx:xx:xx


ifconfig
re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500

options=389b
ether 14:da:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet 192.168.xx.xx netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.xx.xx
inet6 fe80:::::%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
nd6 options=23
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX )
status: active
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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-05-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
Shane Ambler wrote:
> >
> > Do you have success stories running FreeBSD on an ASUS P8H67-M
> > LGA1155 H67 motherboard? This will be mostly a desktop system on
> > 9.0-RELEASE.
> >
> > I am worried especially about the Sandy Bridge video, shall I be able
> > to use it with xorg at least in VESA modes?
> >
> > Do also the sound/NIC/etc drivers work well with this motherboard?
> 
> I am running 9.0-RELEASE on an ASUS P8H61-M LE/USB3 with a corei5
> 
> Having the same audio and LAN chips I can say they work. Had some
> trouble getting the audio working to start with, vaguely recall it was
> something with the generic sound detection didn't pick the right driver,
> once I enabled one specific sound device I haven't had trouble (also
> that was back in rc3). Only using stereo speakers so can't vouch for any
> surround features. Add snd_hda_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf

Thanks for the good news. Can you please show 'cat /dev/sndstat' and
what the kernel thinks about the NIC (is it the re(4) driver?)
> 
> Using an Nvidia PCIe card - haven't tried the on-board video.

I have tried PC-BSD 9.0 on a similar motherboard with a Sandy Bridge
video, it seems to work in VESA mode.

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Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-05-16 Thread Shane Ambler

On 16/05/2012 13:52, Victor Sudakov wrote:

Colleagues,

Do you have success stories running FreeBSD on an ASUS P8H67-M
LGA1155 H67 motherboard? This will be mostly a desktop system on
9.0-RELEASE.

I am worried especially about the Sandy Bridge video, shall I be able
to use it with xorg at least in VESA modes?

Do also the sound/NIC/etc drivers work well with this motherboard?


I am running 9.0-RELEASE on an ASUS P8H61-M LE/USB3 with a corei5

Having the same audio and LAN chips I can say they work. Had some
trouble getting the audio working to start with, vaguely recall it was
something with the generic sound detection didn't pick the right driver,
once I enabled one specific sound device I haven't had trouble (also
that was back in rc3). Only using stereo speakers so can't vouch for any
surround features. Add snd_hda_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf

Using an Nvidia PCIe card - haven't tried the on-board video.

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FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-05-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues,

Do you have success stories running FreeBSD on an ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155
H67 motherboard? This will be mostly a desktop system on 9.0-RELEASE.

I am worried especially about the Sandy Bridge video, shall I be able
to use it with xorg at least in VESA modes?

Do also the sound/NIC/etc drivers work well with this motherboard?

TIA.

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