Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 05:12:36 +1000 From: John Vender <john@jmv.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Dimenison Compatability? Message-ID: <l03102800b542028c6844@[203.109.135.183]> In-Reply-To: <391C4ED4.9F8A187D@glue.umd.edu>
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I installed 3.1 from walnut cds and upgraded it using cvsup to 3.4 recently on a PIII 550MHz Dell Dimension XPS T and I was getting lot of silo overflow errors in both releases of FreeBSD using the serial port (for an external modem). After tearing my hair out trying to find the reason for the silo overflows including installing a second serial port I came across a post that spoke about that intel chipset having odd behaviour (and silo overflows) when DMA is not turned on when configuring the IDE controller in the FreeBSD hardware setup screen. Once I did what the post suggested (which included turning off legacy USB in the bios setup) the silo overflows are virtually gone, although not 100%. I have the post here somewhere, let me know if you need more info and I'll dig it up. You could say I didn't enjoy the experience, particularly since Dell would only talk to me if it had win98 on it as it arrived here. I gave up on trying to get X working with the ATI Rage 128 Pro after about a week that included upgrading XFree86 to 3.3.6 from ports because I got too busy and the machine's job under FreeBSD is mostly as an apache and mysql server and my experience getting X working is very limited. Cheers...John >We're buying a new computer at work and plan to have it dual booting >Windoze and FreeBSD. The Central Purchasing Beauracracy(TM) wants to >use a Dell Dimension XPS T. Has anyone had any problems with Dell's >and FreeBSD? Or Dell's in general? > >-B >-- >bfoz@glue.umd.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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