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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:54:14 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start
Message-ID:  <20090623175414.GB33220@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com>
References:  <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:11:48PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have solved most of the problems listed in my previous message with=20
> help from Roland Smith.
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> The fact still remains that FreeBSD-7.2 has some definite problems on=20
> AMD hardware :
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> 1) On multi-core systems, the cores don't get initialized properly and=20
> you get messages like : "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" followed by panic. The=
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> solution is to reboot, maybe as many as 6-7 times.

Can you run the mptable command as root and post the output?

> 2) The uhub/ums module fails to load and /dev/ums0 consequently won't=20
> get created. The workaround is to unplug your USB mouse just before the=
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> boot process begins, and plug it back in once you get the console.

Since the USB stack has been replaced in 8-CURRENT, I'm not sure if many
developers will want to spend time on this...
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> I have googled for the above 2 problems and there seem to many folks=20
> suffering from the ills, with no solution except the ones I have listed=
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> above. And these problems almost always occur on AMD multi-core systems.

Most posts about the "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" message that I found are
several years old.=20

> I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty=
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> reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to=20
> /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor.

There is always /rescue/vi. And in single-user mode, you can always
mount /usr if it is on a separate partition.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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