From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 03:21:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80A316A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA99943D55 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.o@freesbee.fr) Received: from freesbee.fr (segur-2-81-57-242-169.fbx.proxad.net [81.57.242.169]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6239773E35 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:21:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <40091ACE.3020403@freesbee.fr> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:21:50 +0100 From: "M. O." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Successfull install of 5.2 on AS600, some problems remain X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:21:54 -0000 1. Successfull install of 5.2 on AS600 I finally achieved to install FreeBSD on an alpha-station 600 5/333. As far as the internal CDROM didn't read burned CDs, I tried for 2 weeks to install from floppies. FreeBSD 4.8 was the only bootable version but hangs after SCSI peripherals detection (though I preloaded ispfw for the Qlogic ISP ultraWide card, I upgraded the SRM firmware to 7.2.2, I set the isp_mode from fast to ultra, I set isp_mem_map=0xff as shown in HARDWARE.txt). Other releases alpha floppies causes SRM to return "not a correct boot sector". I took an old cd-buner (4x writespeed max), wrote a freebsd5.2-disc iso, and the as600 cdrom read it! I think that the bunch of modules (even uselessly loaded ones like usb) helped. 2. remaining problems a. Some tools coredump, for example : /usr/bin/top : Segmentation fault (core dumped) and gdb /usr/bin/top top.core says : (gdb) bt #0 0x1602464c8 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.5 #1 0x1601e79b4 in getpwent () from /lib/libc.so.5 #2 0x1601cdf18 in yp_next () from /lib/libc.so.5 May be a bug in Nis ? b. Some modules hangs (the console , the kernel ?) b1. Screen saver modules hang the kernel (no more ping nor keyboard) : Is the TGA graphic card responsible? b2. The freshly built kernel detects the PCI FDDI nic. partial dump of pciconf -lv : fpa0@pci0:7:0: class=0x020200 card=0x00000000 chip=0x000f1011 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Digital Equipment Corporation' device = 'FDDI "DEFPA"' class = network subclass = fddi But ifconfig on fpa0 crashes the kernel. c. Text consoles is broken after running X. The text consoles are in a bad refresh mode when switching from X (Alt-F9) to text (F1-F8). Should I find an other video card or switch the TGA 8bit planes to 80x25 text mode with allscreen_flags?