Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 01:33:46 +0800 From: Thor Ablestar <thor@irk.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS to replace FreeBSD Message-ID: <74e6cffe-ddf1-dd9a-68a8-f9ebd66761cb@irk.ru> In-Reply-To: <20210319130249.000042a1@seibercom.net> References: <20210319101040.00005c35@seibercom.net> <CA%2BD9QhsjLtVui6exPDyG2CO5H8X-=YckFjCehHusG7eH_kk2sg@mail.gmail.com> <6054BE1B.50706@gmail.com> <20210319130249.000042a1@seibercom.net>
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High! So the specialists state that the problem is somewhere in ACPI. Long time ago (during the KMS hell) I bought me a notebook that had 2 ATI video controllers. I had a good experience with ATI and decided that it will be forever. I was wrong: The second card was not possible to disable under FreeBSD so I tried to find a method to do it with ACPI. I failed and have thrown the book away (donated to the friend) but: As I remember there is a method to download and decompile BIOS ACPI tables, patch them and load a patched version during boot (I have forgot the specifics). And as I remember the tables were somehow understandable. Maybe it's possible to find a m/b with similar USB3 hardware and take the relevant part from it? Hope this helps. Thor On 3/20/21 1:02 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:07:07 -0400, Ernie Luzar stated: >> Matthias Gamsjager wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 15:16, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: >>> >>>> With the soon-to-be release of version 13 of FreeBSD and the EOL of >>>> FreeBSD 11.x, I will need to invest in a new OS. Due to FreeBSD’s >>>> unfortunate inability to squash bug >>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666, l am left >>>> with no choice but to seek out a new OS. I need a bare-bones system >>>> that can run a mail server, Postfix with Dovecot, and a few other >>>> utilities. >>>> >> This sounds like only 2 things. 1. Something in your hardware tower >> is >> falling. 2. The way you updated from one release to another something >> went wrong. >> >> I would start with a clean build of release 12.2 using a disk drive on >> a usb stick. See if problem is still there. If so you have hardware >> problem and no amount of PR is going to fix that. > There was nothing failing; it was a brand new PC. I have done the clean > install with both 12.0 and 12.2, with the same results. If you actually > read through the bug report, you would see that I am not the only one > with this problem. > > Apparently, someone reported that you could rebuild the kernel and > remove USB3 or something like that, but I have neither the time nor > inclination to do that, assuming I could do it. > > Versions 10 & 11 work fine. This is something that FreeBSD did that > screwed up the works. Dell is aware of the problem but will do nothing > to attempt to create a work around for it. They claim it is working as > specified and every other OS, with the exception of FreeBSD works > correctly on that system. > > I am not going to spend more money to get a system that is happy with > FreeBSD. I buy what I want and then get an OS that is capable of > operating on it, not the other way around. In any case, I am thinking > of either Fedora, Debian or Arch Linux. I was just looking for > recommendations from anyone who has used those systems. >
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