Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:32:09 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: A success story, of sorts Message-ID: <200210282232.g9SMW9NE043136@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Last week I decided to blow away my newer laptop's ancient 4.3 installation (well, actually, Lose XP decided to do it for me, but that's another story). I had just gotten my complimentary developer's CD set from FreeBSDmall.com (thanks, guys!) and decided to reinstall everything from scratch. So after I finished fighting with Windows eXtreme Punishment, I stick the 4.7 install CD and reboot. Windows loads again. I spend the next hour playing all sorts of games with the BIOS, and so far as I can tell it just absolutely refuses to load the 4.7 CD. (Windows installed from CD just fine.) I borrow a Debian 3.0 CD from a cow-orker, and it gets a little bit further, but crashes before loading the kernel. Finally, I give up in despair and make boot floppies. Works perfectly. I do as minimal an installation as I possibly can, and immediately cvsup to -current. Buildworld runs perfectly; installworld drops dead pretty quickly, as I hadn't yet rebooted with the new kernel. Having done that, everything goes smoothly. Every reboot, ACPI prints some odd messages on my console: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 ---- initial configuration ------------------------ \\_SB_.LNKA irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.11.0 \\_SB_.LNKB irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.11.1 \\_SB_.LNKC irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.LNKE irq 3: [ 3 4] low,level,sharable 0.7.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.13.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.12.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.5.3 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.15.0 \\_SB_.LNKA irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.16.0 ---- before setting priority for links ------------ ---- before fixup boot-disabled links ------------- ---- after fixup boot-disabled links -------------- ---- arbitrated configuration --------------------- \\_SB_.LNKA irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.11.0 \\_SB_.LNKB irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.11.1 \\_SB_.LNKC irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.9.0 \\_SB_.LNKE irq 3: [ 3 4] low,level,sharable 0.7.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.13.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.12.0 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.5.3 \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.15.0 \\_SB_.LNKA irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 0.16.0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 ---- initial configuration ------------------------ \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 1.0.0 ---- before setting priority for links ------------ ---- before fixup boot-disabled links ------------- ---- after fixup boot-disabled links -------------- ---- arbitrated configuration --------------------- \\_SB_.LNKD irq 11: [ 5 6 7 10 11 12] low,level,sharable 1.0.0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 This looks to me like debugging information that probably should not be printed by default. The ASL and raw DSDT are available on request. What else is there to mention.... NEWCARD worked beautifully with my Enterasys RoamAbout card and with my old standby 3C589D (which I use when I need a static address). I am noticing some surprising network hesitation on the 3Com when I send large files to the laptop. Now that I have working CardBus I should try upgrading to a 32-bit network card. After deleting the cvsup that I had originally installed and installing an older (non-gui) version, I was able to build X from scratch with no trouble. Mozilla 1.2 also built without error. KDE was another story, but I didn't care to spend a lot of time debugging huge C++ programs so I stopped bothering with it. I also built ImageMagick, which I need when downloading images from my digital camera, and had no trouble other than the useless dependency that it has on some library or other that I couldn't care less about and never builds for me anyway. I had to back the openssh-portable port off to the previous version so that the Kerberos patches would apply. (Perhaps this needs to be separated out into a separate port.) All the commits I made this past weekend were build-tested on the laptop (accessing it remotely from home), so from that perspective at least the system seems pretty solid. Disklabel is unhappy with GEOM, as others have already noted. I don't anticipate needing to redo the label any time soon, so I'm not immediately concerned about this. I have no clue how to interpret the output from `sysctl hw.acpi.thermal'. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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