Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:46:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with a PW500au Message-ID: <14727.13758.246560.904934@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200008011955.MAA39698@pike.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200008011955.MAA39698@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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John Baldwin writes: > Hey gang, > > I have a PW500au here at work that I use to test patches on, etc. but > I've been having problems with it recently. First, I've yet to get a video > card that actually works properly in it. So far: What PCI slots are the problematic cards plugged into? I've heard that most video cards don't work well or at all behind the ppb which separates the 3 32-bit slots from the primary pci bus. Try putting your card in a 64-bit slot. Read /usr/src/release/texts/alpha/HARDWARE.TXT and search for pci_device_override before doing this. <...> > > My second issue is that it seems to die during high load, i.e. when building > world, or compiling X or Xemacs. It will simply die and drop into SRM with > > kernel stack invalid halt > PC = 0xffffXXXXXXXXXX > XXXXX -- HWPRB invalid. > > It then has to be cold-booted to be usable again. Thats BAD. Are you running the latest firmware (it also corrects some video problems.). see ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/index.html It might be helpful to know what version of FreeBSD you're running & what sort of hardware is connected. Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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