Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:51:56 -0700 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: neal elliott <nealelliott@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD usable as a workstation on a blade 100 Message-ID: <20030505195156.GU26372@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <3EB6BB8D.5070409@netscape.net> References: <3EB6BB8D.5070409@netscape.net>
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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
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