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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD usable as a workstation on a blade 100
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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, neal elliott wrote:
>  
>    Now I Have FreeBSD installed on my blade 100 system I noticed how much 
>    faster it
> is then solaris. Is there anyone who uses FreeBSD on their blade 100 as a 
> full blown
> workstation with XFree86 installed and useable? when I connect the usb 
> keyboard to
> the system then boot into FreeBSD I get a error "panic: pcib unrecoverable 
> DMA error AFAR 0x84008 AFSR 0x4100ff00208" then the system goes in to a 
> endless rebooting loop. has anyone seen this problem before? I'm guessing 
> this must be a USB keyboard related issue;
> this only happens when I connect the USB keyboard. when I disconnect the 
> keyboard and
> leave the mouse connected everything works fine I just have to use the 
> serial console.

No, I only use my Blade 100 headless.  The USB stack is not
usable on FreeBSD/sparc64.  X11 servers don't work (AFAIK).  That
is all on the todo list, but I don't anticipate a Blade 100 being
usable as a FreeBSD workstation for a few months at least.

Regards,
-- 
wca