Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:15:34 -0400 From: Michael Remski <mremski@ix.netcom.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.1-Stable etc Message-ID: <37333BD6.982512D5@ix.netcom.com>
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Hi all. I've come over to FreeBSD about a month or two ago, after
running Linux for about 5 years. All this about spontaneous reboots etc
are rather interesting. One question that does not appear to have been
asked:
Everyone who is having these reboots, did you upgrade from 2.2.X
to 3.1-Stable?
It appears that there have been problems if one did not go from 2.2.X to
either 3.0 or 3.1-Release. I'm not involved (yet), but that is my
observation.
I installed 3.0-Release with Linux and then when 3.1 came out, I got
that and
wiped out Linux entirely. I've since CVSUP'd to 3.1-Stable (May 6) and
the
only problems that I've had are:
1. Using a PS/2 mouse under XFree, after long uptime (days), if
I
exited the X-session, then restarted it, any movement of the
mouse
would result in immediate crash of the X-Server (XF86_SVGA).
Examination of the core file indicated a problem in the
xf86mouseprotocol (kind of expected this). This occured under
both
XFree and XAccel, with moused, without moused, didn't matter.
My
solution was to use a serial mouse, which sucks, because then I
can't talk to my UPS. But right now, I am back to using a PS/2
mouse
but have flag 0x100 for the psm in the config file. Wait and
see.
2. Currently, dmesg shows this:
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0 <---- hmm attached to lpt
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0 <---- what? again to lpt?
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
with the corresponding section from my config:
# Parallel port
device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7
controller ppbus0
device lpt0 at ppbus?
I noticed that there are a few copies of lpt.c around:
/usr/src/sys/dev/ppbus/lpt.c
/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/lpt.c
/usr/src/sys/pc98/pc98/lpt.c
Is this lpt0 duality a problem? Does not seem to affect normal
operations. I've
tried mucking around with the config, all I get is no printer.
The machine is a plain old Pentium-166, all SCSI, file/print server for
my
wife's Mac.
I've got good experience with the whole code/test/integration/scream in
agony
cycle, so any help I can be, let me know.
mike
--
"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
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