Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:02:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "M. O." <m.o@freesbee.fr> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Successfull install of 5.2 on AS600, some problems remain Message-ID: <20040117120230.GA28086@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <40091ACE.3020403@freesbee.fr> References: <40091ACE.3020403@freesbee.fr>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:21:50PM +0100, M. O. wrote: Hi, As for the fpa FDDI problem: that is a long standing bug :-( W/ > 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---end of quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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