Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:54:14 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start Message-ID: <20090623175414.GB33220@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com> References: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:11:48PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > 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. Can you run the mptable command as root and post the output? > 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. Since the USB stack has been replaced in 8-CURRENT, I'm not sure if many developers will want to spend time on this... > 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. Most posts about the "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" message that I found are several years old. > 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. There is always /rescue/vi. And in single-user mode, you can always mount /usr if it is on a separate partition. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpBFsYACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVkKgCgkGIb+qKxlLSeu5PD7+gv5C1n wGEAn1OdCFzsPdEc+kkdTWbpAGpJpl9N =YsDp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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