From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 13:41:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849EF1065670 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f186.google.com (mail-qy0-f186.google.com [209.85.221.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AD08FC13 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so68933qyk.3 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:41:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pEKWyPTwNsnSDkvQCYoDq5eYXn5QsG0PY5VwUJdE/Ew=; b=DuOEoGKe11m2MT3tKTD95wg5NdTnqIh9oahkhWz4rltJWpkHV5uN9yJ+UTnYjs2tTE MIG0z4zkXRcf1cc27TJNnCkWlk8YvKt8zHSbbgFloNWR9xt4LqdfCFWP10BFWFzFu0b3 0PErcJuinA3eG+dyd6T3eMMqQr4sq46EBtab0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f+0vF0pWknMZvVE9b1LrQYOKqX70Hy4XDdr8hlRg0XaQJCw6Gd/AfUHJeMPgZxlKCu tk825s8FLuZqezUUAWBdtGfmwD7KSYeOQm70x2FTx3l1vYHyZIsIPvhLqlpUip1AOykK IWjpSTioSGQCwFBBmLG0qTvgakP65qX4chBBs= Received: by 10.224.36.198 with SMTP id u6mr78478qad.199.1245764516317; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?152.144.218.35? ([203.92.44.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm225285qwf.46.2009.06.23.06.41.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:11:48 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gesbbb@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Smith , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:57 -0000 > Message: 11 > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:34:00 -0400 > From: Jerry > Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20090620163400.62143980@scorpio.seibercom.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:31:45 +0530 > Manish Jain wrote: > >> Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe >> 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. > > post the output of: pciconf -lv as well as dmesg. Also your rc.conf and > PolicyKit.conf files might be useful. > > -- > Jerry > gesbbb@yahoo.com Hi, I have solved most of the problems listed in my previous message with help from Roland Smith. The fact still remains that FreeBSD-7.2 has some definite problems on AMD hardware : 1) On multi-core systems, the cores don't get initialized properly and you get messages like : "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" followed by panic. The solution is to reboot, maybe as many as 6-7 times. 2) The uhub/ums module fails to load and /dev/ums0 consequently won't get created. The workaround is to unplug your USB mouse just before the boot process begins, and plug it back in once you get the console. I have googled for the above 2 problems and there seem to many folks suffering from the ills, with no solution except the ones I have listed above. And these problems almost always occur on AMD multi-core systems. I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.