From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 16:35:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020F16A41F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:35:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stu@spacehopper.org) Received: from symphytum.spacehopper.org (symphytum.spacehopper.org [81.168.66.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8254E43D48 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:35:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stu@spacehopper.org) Received: from megalith.spacehopper.org ([IPv6:2001:4bd0:2026:100:20e:cff:fe2e:c35a]) by symphytum.spacehopper.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA3GZRKR016031 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:35:27 GMT Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:35:55 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Jeffrey Williams , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4369497D.6030504@sailorfej.net> References: <4369497D.6030504@sailorfej.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.9 X-SMTP-Vilter-Spam-Backend: spamd X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-Spam-Threshold: 7.0 X-Spam-Probability: -0.4 Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with HP dx5150/ATI Xpress 200 chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:35:33 -0000 --On 02 November 2005 15:19 -0800, Jeffrey Williams wrote: > I have recently purchased a number HP DX5150 SFF desktops with idea > of using them as basic infrastructure servers (e.g. DNS, DHCP, and > firewall). I prefer to use -stable versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. A few general thoughts (no knowledge of the hardware, but worth a go): - for OpenBSD, try -current snapshots (may fix bge). Ok it's not named "stable" but if it works and -stable doesn't, there's no loss... - for FreeBSD, try 6.0RC1. ditto. - if these options fail, is using a PCI nic an option? cards supported by sk(4) can be found reasonably cheaply and work well. From what I read, vge(4) aren't bad either. - does the machine have apm anyway? > obsd > also incorrectly detects drive geometry but gets closer to the actual > numbers fbsd, I did not try to manually correct, I am not as > familiar/comfortable with openbsd's disklabel, the drive did "seem" > more stable. $ sudo disklabel -E sd0 # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 1562353317 Treating sectors 63-1562353380 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk. You can use the 'b' command to change this. Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) > ? Available commands: [...] g [b|d|u] - use [b]ios, [d]isk or [u]ser geometry. > APIC settings did not seem to affect obsd boot or installs $ grep apic /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC* /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC.MP:ioapic* at mainbus? i.e. it's only used on the MP kernel.