From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 10:42:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3137B41C for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBBIgBS03389; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:42:11 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBBIgAb00391; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:42:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:42:10 -0700 From: Chad David To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP beeping Message-ID: <20011211114210.B355@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <20011210223332.A528@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:12:35AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:12:35AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Chad David wrote: > > > I sent a message about this to -stable last week, but didn't get any > > input that resulted in a solution to this problem so... > > > > -stable for the last week or more (I did a make world last week for > > the first time in over a month) beeps on and off when SMP is enabled. > > The beeping appears to be timed with very short stalls of the system; > > that is, when moving the mouse across the screen it stops at what > > seems to be that start of each beep. The beeps are not consistent > > in length, but the tone does not change. If I boot a kernel with > > the exact same config only with SMP disabled it does not beep, and > > mouse cursor movement is fluid. > > You never mentioned that the beeps were caused by moving your mouse > before! I didn't mention it because that is not what is does :). If you read the above you will notice that I am still not saying that. What I was saying was that there is a noticable pause in the system when ever a beep begins (every 1/2 sec - 1 sec), and the mouse is an obvious indicator of that. My assumption is that either something is beeping on purpose (there is a hardware/bios/kernel problem that I do not know about), or something in the kernel is writing to a bad address when SMP is enabled. I was hoping that somebody was having the same problem or would at least have a better idea then I do. > > Are you using a KVM? If so, does this problem occur when using a mouse > that is directly connected to you system? Both with and without the switch it beeps. This machine has been runing for months without any problems... the only change was a make world, and a new kernel. The kernel I am running is basically GENERIC with SMP enabled. Since it appears nobody else is having the same problem, I guess I will pull the box out of production, and hack on it. I was hoping not to have to do that (my fault for putting -stable on it in the first place I guess). -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message