From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 15 7:35:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835F737B418 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83100 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 15:35:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Nov 2001 15:35:20 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BF3D0DA.2030805@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:35:20 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jim Bryant Subject: RE: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues... Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote: > I am in the process of switching to a USB keyboard with a PS/2 to USB mouse > port on the KB [freeing IRQ 12]. > > The keyboard works, the mouse works. > > My problem here is in getting past the BTX loader WITHOUT the AT keyboard > attached. How would I keep BTX from freezing when it > can't see the AT keyboard? Huh? What actual problem is BTX giving you? I boot lots of machines headless, and have used USB keyboards on machines in the past. > Also, after over a month of not being able to buildworld with SMP-current, I > managed to build a kernel from the same sources that I > built my last SMP kernel with [yesterday's -current], except this time it was > in uniprocessor configuration, and now I don't get the > random panics which were most obvious when attempting to buildworld over the > past month or so [I have tried new kernels about every > week for over a month, all have had the same issues]. > > I have read that others seem to be having problems in SMP, and I guess I am > not alone. I saved the SMP kernel, so I can still boot > into it, but these seem to be random, and I could sit for a minute or for an > hour before I get to a point where I can even see the > panic, but if any tracebacks are needed, I do have the debugger in, assuming > this problem isn't already known. What kind of panics? When you get a panic, please post it to the list along with a trace and any other useful debug info. We can't fix bugs we don't know about. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message