From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 14:28:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B67937B408 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15tFHY-0002mh-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:28:20 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9FLSJ458664; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:28:19 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:28:19 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Brian P. Trotter" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation oddities for i386 install Message-ID: <20011016102819.B58483@jonc.itouch> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011015170218.00adccf0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message