Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 08:22:43 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: More on system hangs ... IRQ related? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103050818490.33622-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103042340201.33622-100000@mobile.hub.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> >
> > On 04-Mar-01 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 03:18:39PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > My sound card overlaps with fxp0, and fxp1 overlaps with the
> > >> > HighPoint controller ...
> > >> >
> > >> > Grasping at straws here ...
> > >>
> > >> Ditch the HPT366, it's crap and will cause system instabilities with
> > >> "fast" hard drives. I'm not sure what you have attached to it, but I've
> > >> had problems with {either,both} an IBM ATA100 HDD and a Western Digital
> > >> ATA66 drive attached. Apparently the ATA100 counterpart from HighPoint
> > >> isn't so bad.
> > >
> > > Okay, everything in my box is SCSI, so I'm not suspecting the HPT... its
> > > more the pcm & fxp that I'm thinking ...
> > >
> > > how does the OS handle having both devices hit simultaneously on the same
> > > IRQ?
> >
> > The IRQ fires and is masked. We then run both handlers, one after the other,
> > and when they have finished re-enable the IRQ.
>
> Okay, are there any known problems with the SB128 cards? Figuring that it
> couldn't hurt to remove it, I did ... so far, X hasn't hung ... not
> conclusive yet, am going to let it run over night, with KDE2 compiling in
> the background, and see if its still runnin in the morning ... if it is,
> will try putting the SB128 back in and seeing if it once more causes it to
> hang ...
>
> But, so far, so good *cross fingers*
Of course, as everyone knew (and I wished against unsuccessfully), it
still hung :(
Ah well, will re-tackle it when I get back from SF, even if it means
leaving it overnight ...
One question ... yesterday, when I did leave it running, and came back to
my computer, my xterm that I had kermit running in was full of "binary
data" ... you know, the hieroglyphics? I just started up a new
xterm/kermit to reset it, but if it hangs in that state, I'm definitely
not going to have anything to show anyone ... is there any reason why
there are binary codes (if I want it scroll, I can see the occasional
'diamond' popping up on the screen, and hear the occasional bell) in that
output, and any way of suppressing them?
Thanks ...
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.33.0103050818490.33622-100000>