Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:28:19 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: "Brian P. Trotter" <btrotter@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation oddities for i386 install Message-ID: <20011016102819.B58483@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011015170218.00adccf0@127.0.0.1>; from btrotter@pobox.com on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:21:58PM -0400 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011015170218.00adccf0@127.0.0.1>
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:21:58PM -0400, Brian P. Trotter wrote:
[...]
> I put in a Compaq Intel 10/100 NIC, and re-installed
> everything. This got rid of the problem with the errors flooding the
> screens; however, there was still a very noticable intermittent pause every
> 15-20 seconds. You could be typing, and then everything would pause, and a
> couple seconds later, everything would resume.
> I did an xf86config, to get X configured, then did a startx. This was
> horrible. It seemed as though I was trying to run X on a 386 with 4mb of
> RAM. Everything was just slugging its way through all the menus and screens.
> I then did another reinstall and tried to select less packages to install,
> and the same thing kept happening.
The last time this happened to me, it was 'cos there was bad cabling
between the card and the switch. If i shutdown the network interface, the
system performed fine, but when it was up it was very jittery (although
there were no system crashes).
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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