From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 25 4:33:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.sonera-xs.nl (cobalt1.corp.sonera-xs.nl [195.66.15.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F336837B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 04:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ron@zappa.demon.nl) Received: from pcron (qn-212-127-134-154.quicknet.nl [212.127.134.154]) by mail4.sonera-xs.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA27756 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 15:50:50 +0200 Message-ID: <000d01c0e50e$dc7f3180$9601a8c0@denhartogh.nl> From: "Ron Klinkien" To: Subject: Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences. Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:35:24 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have no questions but just a write down of my experience with installing fbsd on a fast new system, maybe it helps others. In another attempt to get rid of my M$ desktop at home -and run FreeBSD Gnome instead- I set my mind to upgrading my motherboard/cpu/mem/disk (from ASUS P2B-S/PII 333Mhz/128Mb/9.1Gb SCSI/Geforce 2 MX) After browsing through some hardware forums I choose for: ABit KT7A, Athlon TBird 1.2Ghz/133FSB, 256MB PC133 mem and IBM Deskstar 60GXP (IC35L040) 40Gb ATA100 disk. (Note: I didn't browse the FreeBSD archives for this combination before hand, maybe I'd pick another combo after the following experience.) First I installed Win98SE to test my setup and configure my BIOS. (Just to test my hardware and measure cpu temp/fan speed etc quickly believe me ;-) All modest settings and no overclocking. (12x 100Mhz) (cpu temp at 45C) It installed and runned without any problem whatsoever. I then tried to install FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE from CD, the install failed when installing hunk 31 of the bin set. I got "write failed..." Tried an old FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE CD and it installed fine strange enough. But after rebooting I got "UDMA ICRC switching back to PIO4" errors. ;-((((( Searching the fbsd archives I found alot of people with VIA 686 chips which had the same problems. Forcing to PIO mode is a no-no for me, -I didn't buy an UDMA100 disk/ctrl for nothing.- And using spiffy new hardware and correct 80-wire cables and everything, I decided to upgrade via cvsup to 4.3-STABLE, and build world/kernel, this all went fine. (With PIO mode enabled temporary) And after rebooting all the UDMA problems were gone!! But I got one new problem; the infamous "microuptime() went backwards error" came to the scene. Browsed the mailing archive again, setting apm0 to disabled didn't solve it. I had to remove the apm0 line completely from my kernel config to get rid of the error. After this (a few hours later), all worked fine, did a complete build/install of ports XFree-4 and Gnome-1.4 without any problems. But i'm a bit dissapointed that fbsd gave me so much problems installing and forcing me to disabled parts of it's functionality... Maybe I upgrade to current someday to make use of the new apci code. Anyone have the same experiences? Regards, Ron. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message