On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:12:49PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: > I'm trying to set up FreeBSD on my box, which has an Intel > D945GNT motherboard, two 3.2GHz processors, 1GB memory. The system > installs OK and I've been able to use cvsup to upgrade everything, > remake the kernel (for SMP), build OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 KDE 3.5.
Just to clarify, are those processors amd64/em64, or ia32? Are you running a 32-bit or 64-bit system on them? Aah. I see from your uname, below, that you're running i386 code. That should remove a few potential pitfalls. > However, three problems remain unsolved in spite of all of these > things: > > 1. Only one processor seems to be used. The output from top -S is: > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: cpu1 > 12 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 0 139:40 98.34% idle: cpu0 It seems to me that the FreeBSD scheduler is pretty keen on processor affinity, which is a good thing. My AMD-X2 dual core system has been up a good deal longer than yours, but the idle times are still fairly different: root 12 99.0 0.0 0 16 ?? RL 8Jul06 9797:24.05 [idle: cpu0] root 11 98.5 0.0 0 16 ?? RL 8Jul06 11206:02.27 [idle: cpu1] Do you get any activity on the other CPU if you do a buildworld with make -j4 or so? > 2. KDE 3.5 does not like to run any screensaver. They all run OK on > test, and if I run the actual programs themselves, there is no > problem. However, KDE will not start them up automatically. I'm afraid I run a GNOME system, so I can't help with that problem. The screen saver doesn't seem to have any trouble starting under GNOME, but I haven't been able to get it to do the DPMS monitor power-down yet. Still investigating that. > 3. OpenOffice.org does not like any of the files produced from > anywhere else. I have stuff written in StarOffice 5.2 and in MS Word, > but none of these will open. Even stuff written using OpenOffice.org > 2 on a MS system is not acceptable. The error is always "General I/O > Error". OpenOffice will read files that it has written quite OK and > permissions, ownership, etc all seem to be OK. I believe that most of the OOo file import functionality is provided by Java modules, and it will successfully build without this functionality if you don't have or don't want to run Java. Do you have a working native Java implementation? You might need to get Java going before building (or re-building) OOo. > Neither the KDE nor the OpenOffice problem has altered by > upgrading these two systems and the SMP problem is also the same as > with the GENERIC kernel. uname -a gives: > > FreeBSD grandpa.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: > Sat Jul 15 16:46:44 EST 2006 [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP i386 -- Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"