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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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