From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 21:47:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FAA16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.richardflanagan.com.au (gateway.richardflanagan.com.au [203.149.71.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD57443D46 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:47:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akozak@richardflanagan.com.au) Received: from akozak (akozak.richardflanagan.com.au [192.168.0.21]) by mail.richardflanagan.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id AC63C218BFF for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:49:01 +1000 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <400236BC.000003.02032@AKOZAK> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:55:08 +1000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: IncrediMail (2501324) From: "Andrew Kozak" To: "FreeBSD Questions" X-FID: PLAINTXT-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 Subject: panic: contigmalloc1 size must be 0 - interim fix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:47:57 -0000 Hi all I am a very stubborn user and refuse to return to windows, even in the face of a kernel panic ;-)~. I posted last week on this problem I havce of the contigmalloc1 error associated with the Ali (Alladin) chipset. Instead of going forward (newer releases) I have had some limited success so far by doing just the opposite. I noticed on the FreeBSD website that the Alladin chipset is supposedly supported till 4.9, however, I have found so far that 4.7 is the latest release to actually support this chipset. (I think, I am cvsupping to 4.8 ATM, I will post if I have success there) The problem seems to lie in the pkg-config file, for an upgraded system anyway as when I try and install gnome2, this is when my system falls apart every time. pkg_add has no effect, thinking the problem was a dependency, I gave this a try and failed in the same fashion. All gnome reliant apps fail it seems. Another major problem I found was that drivers did not work properly, I experimented with a few and after some trials, I found that the vesa driver solved my X probs, sound etc was the same, experiment untill you find one that works (I am certain I have been using the correct dirver as well, it just did not work, whenever I invoked X, I would geta blank screen and the whole computer would become disabled - I did make notes of all my hardware before installing) If you are interested in adding coments, or telling me that I have explained this badly, please cc me as I am not on the list. I will post again when I have FreeBSD up and running relatively bugfree. As I say, this worked for me and there seems to be no post regarding this bug. Hoping I can help someone out here Andy