Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:11:48 +0530 From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: gesbbb@yahoo.com Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start Message-ID: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com>
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> Message: 11 > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:34:00 -0400 > From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <20090620163400.62143980@scorpio.seibercom.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:31:45 +0530 > Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Looks like nobody at freebsd-questions has any answers for me. Maybe >> 7.2-x86 doesn't like newish amd hardware. > > post the output of: pciconf -lv as well as dmesg. Also your rc.conf and > PolicyKit.conf files might be useful. > > -- > Jerry > gesbbb@yahoo.com Hi, I have solved most of the problems listed in my previous message with help from Roland Smith. The fact still remains that FreeBSD-7.2 has some definite problems on AMD hardware : 1) On multi-core systems, the cores don't get initialized properly and you get messages like : "AP #1 (PHY# 1) failed !" followed by panic. The solution is to reboot, maybe as many as 6-7 times. 2) The uhub/ums module fails to load and /dev/ums0 consequently won't get created. The workaround is to unplug your USB mouse just before the boot process begins, and plug it back in once you get the console. I have googled for the above 2 problems and there seem to many folks suffering from the ills, with no solution except the ones I have listed above. And these problems almost always occur on AMD multi-core systems. I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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