RE: FreeBSD 5.3-SMP/IRQ problems (again)
On Jan 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: Dear Sirs. I reported very strange behaviours of FreeBSD 5.3 on a suspicous hardware platform of mine and now I would like to repeat this and hope someone can offer me some help. The reason why I repeat this suspected bug is because I do not really beliefe in a hardware fault due to some very strange behaviours of FreeBSD 5.3 on this box. After reading your post, I find it rather odd that you do not suspect hardware problems at least with compatibility with your hardware. I have a Dell Precision 650 dual xeon 2.0 ghz system with an onboard version of your Intel NIC. The network driver has known issues and takes a very long time to negotiate the speed at which it operates. Most of the time my system is almost completely booted before the NIC interface is up. Aside from that issue, my system behaves normally and seems very stable. I am using FreeBSD 5.3 Release P5. I've had problems with several asus motherboards in the past. I used to love them, but after I built a 733mhz P3 system for a friend, i soon realized that their bioses were not good. I believe the decline occured when they switched to soft bios instead of jumpers. (I miss jumpers!) Seriously, the system had problems with video and sound cards in WINDOWS depending on the slot they were placed in. Its the same problem you describe only in windows from a mobo thats probably from about the same time period. The 733 was one of the lowest chips that would go in the board at the time. In addition, i've had problems with FreeBSD 5.2.1 with patchlevel greater than I think 4 but below 5.3 release on an asus nforce2 AMD Athelon XP 2000+ based system. My point is that not all freebsd SMP systems have problems, so its not a global fault in the OS as your post may suggest. (note: i have hyperthreading disabled on my system) Also, ASUS boards are known to have problems. I asked about my reboot problem on freebsd-questions at the time and I was told many horror stories about asus boards and non windows/linux oses. Finally, I'd like to ask why you are running stable? Did someone suggest that you upgrade to stable to try to resolve an issue? Stable occasionally has new features or changes that are not tested thoroughly. It might be more reliable with 5.3 Release P(whatever). I'll close with a summary of the hardware in my system which is known to work in 5.3 release. Dual Xeon 2.0 ghz (dual cpu working great, no HTT) 1 gig ecc memory Intel gigabit nic onboard using em0 driver (slow to negotiate speed, fine afterword unless i'm stress testing) Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer ATI AIW Radeon 9600 XT (2d acceleration only since dri isn't supported on this one) AGP 8x ATA100 IDE disks using onboard IDE controller DVD reader, cd burner firewire 400, USB 2/1.1 ports I have the onboard sound, onboard LSI scsi ultra 320, serial ports, and paralell port disabled to make windows happy. :) Also, I have gentoo installed and quite frankly its very slow! Its running on the 2.6.9 linux kernel w/ smp enabled. If only I didn't need it for my CS class, i'd be running 6 current too :) (i'm not subscribed to the stable mailing list, but am on SMP) Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) FoolishGames.net (Enemy Territory IoM site) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Incorrect super block
Harald Weis wrote: Has anybody encountered the following problem ? Mac OS X does recognize FreeBSD partitions on USB disks, but doesn't want to mount them because ``Incorrect super block''. This is extremely annoying for my ``client'' because he relies on dayly backups on USB keys. Is there a solution ? Thank you in advance. You could use another file system such as Fat32 or NTFS (fuse ntfs from ports). OS X can read both of those. Apple has been moving away from UFS support in OS X for awhile; snow leopard is quite stale on this front. Luke ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 AMD64 Beta1 cd panics on Proliant ML110 G6
I bounced a copy of this mail to the list since the OP sent it to me directly. This is the first I've heard of a PS/2 keyboard not working during the boot phases/loader. Is there anyone on -stable who might know how to diagnose this? I've seen this problem on an HP ML110 as well. I suspect it might be related to the LOM. I've had success using a serial console when I needed to do anything with the menu. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.x grudges
On 07/08/10 17:06, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, Mikhail T.mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: In no particular order: 1. A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and then used as a screen-saver), stopped showing properly. The colors are right, but the picture is distorted beyond recognition. The relevant part of loader.conf is: splash_pcx_load=YES vesa_load=YES bitmap_load=YES bitmap_name=/boot/187426-9-quokka-dreaming.pcx It's a bit difficult to provide any useful input without some idea of what the picture should and does look like. Can you please post the actual bitmap as well as a picture of your screen showing the problem. 3. Likewise, having device ugen breaks config(8) -- another undocumented incompatibility. Can you please advise where it is documented that device ugen is valid in a FreeBSD-8 config file? NAME ugen -- USB generic device support SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device ugen Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): ugen_load=YES DESCRIPTION The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do not have a special driver. It supports access to all parts of the device, but not in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver. There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus. Each USB device can have up to 16 endpoints. Each of these endpoints will commu- snip uname -a FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue May 25 20:54:11 UTC 2010 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I'm not going to argue in favor of any points in this rant, but it is in the man page. As someone who's done some release engineering and worked with sysinstall on my own project, I can tell you it's a real pain and developers in the FreeBSD community deserve courtesy. Most of us work on open source for free in our own time, and it's impossible to test every possible configuration before a release. Luke ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang
On 09/13/10 18:04, Eivind E wrote: Tried to substitute the driver with ati and loading radeon.ko (which automatically loaded drm.ko) and had the same results as the plain radeon driver. X starts up once in a while, but the screen goes to about half of normal brightness and the view is moved down and to the right. You could try experimenting with the AccelMethod option. I've got a newer gpu, but this is what is working for me with a 4200 + freebsd 8.1 at work. ... Section Module Load extmod Load dbe Load glx Load dri Load dri2 EndSection ... (for the card) Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] BusID PCI:1:5:0 Option AccelMethod exa Option DRI yes FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: new desktop box
AMD and Intel both have good CPU offerings. Both have a turbo feature to improve single core workloads. The real question is which video card do you want to use? Both have integrated solutions now or you could pick a discrete card. I personally go amd but buy nvidia cards as there are binary drivers. Amd's newer cards are not supported by x11 well under bsd. If you go with an on CPU gpu (APU) this is an intel only scenario. Amd chips are cheaper but you need a video card too. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Generating ISO With Pre-Installed Packages
As Rick pointed out, the package split script will get the packages on the media. You also need to modify the install process to actually install the default packages. You might want to look at the bsdinstall setup and add a script there to load the packages. Another approach is to create a script that runs on first boot that can install the packages via network or possibly off the media. For MidnightBSD, I created a firstboot script that prompts the user to install a graphical desktop environment and the fetched meta packages from our ports tree that would pull down everything required for kde or GNUstep + window maker. It was easier as we had sysinstall still. Lucas Holt On May 10, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Shawn Webb latt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, I'm looking to generate a FreeBSD 9-stable (and maybe 10-current) ISO that has certain packages pre-installed. I'd like to create my own installation media that will have certain things installed, like a web management UI that I'm actively working on. It'd be like what pfSense does. I did do a little googling and found pfSense's build documentation for spinning a custom build of pfSense. I'll be spending the weekend looking over their work. But in the meantime, does anyone know of the steps involved in such a process? Is the process documented somewhere? Thanks, Shawn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?
I have an Asus Prime X370-pro and a Ryzen 7 1700 that I bought in late April. Make sure you have the latest BIOS for these boards or else it will randomly freak out. While i haven't used it much with FreeBSD, I can confirm that I had a lot of stability issues solved with a December BIOS update on MidnightBSD. I back ported the shared page fix and amdtemp. (it's basically FreeBSD 9.1) I couldn't even get it to boot until the August BIOS update. I've had my box stay up at least a week, and it's my primary development box so I'm mostly doing src/ports builds all the time on it. If you have the latest BIOS, check the memory timings too. It's rather picky with some memory modules. Luke ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?
We have the same bios version. I have corsair RAM Handle 0x003B, DMI type 17, 40 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0032 Error Information Handle: 0x003A Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 16384 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM_A2 Bank Locator: BANK 1 Type: Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) Speed: 2666 MHz Manufacturer: Unknown Serial Number: Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 Rank: 2 Configured Clock Speed: 1333 MHz Minimum voltage: 1.200 V Maximum voltage: 1.200 V Configured voltage: 1.200 V I just double checked and amdtemp isn't working correctly. I was probably thinking of my other system which has an FX 8350. Luke ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
