From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 25 16:18:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14528 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14517 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24400; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970525161804.37676@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:04 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Bernie Doehner Cc: Amancio Hasty , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amancio's latest mods to bt848 driver (removal of floating point) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Bernie Doehner on Sun, May 25, 1997 at 12:30:42PM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bernie Doehner scribbled this message on May 25: > Just ran fxtv for over 30 minutes and didn't get ANY IDE timeouts, but I > also killed inetd/sendmail and other programs that are likely to exercise > the disk. > > However, as soon as I started heavy disk activity (concatenating several > large files together), fxtv totaly froze and I had to reboot.. Not even > IDE timeout messages, everything, but fxtv froze. hmm... maybe this is similar to my problems that I have... as one of the crashes that I had caused ed0: device timeout's... i.e. intrupts stop working... major different is that I'm running SCSI... and it might be a conflict between the two... once I was able to manipulate windows and such.. but the windows were swapped out, so they were never updated... > If I don't kill inetd/sendmail, etc and run fxtv (in a small window) in > doesn't fataly crash any more, just I do get ocassional IDE timeout > errors. > > For those of you who "tuned in late", I must the only person trying to run > a Wincast board on a 486/120 and it seems the DMA is taking too much time > on the bus. I don't know... I think there is something else wrong... as you can see, my system is a 486 bases system too... have you check to make sure your mb is pci2.1 compliant? I haven't gotten around to check mine out... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD