Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:58, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Hmm strange.. I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times on

Re: 5.4-p1 crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mitch Parks
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Robert Watson wrote: there is a PR for it : kern/74319 This sounds very similar to a serial console related tty bug I was experiencing on -STABLE a few months ago, and that is believed may have been worked around in 5.4 tweaks before release. In particular, that there

Re: cvsup from 4.11-RELEASE to 4.11-RELEASE-p1 28,000 errors

2005-06-25 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 23:43 -0700, Leland wrote: I have got to be doing someting wrong, it is right in front of me and I just don't seel it. Hope someone can help, thanks. From a clean install of 4.11-RELEASE with All Distributions, cvsup-without-gui was then installed from ports. cvsup

Re: ATA_DMA errors

2005-06-25 Thread Martin
Johny Mattsson wrote: Basically, the problem seems to be related to using more than one channel on the IDE controller. This isn't a solution to my problem. I only have one hard drive. It's 120GB Seagate. We seem to have different problems, btw. I also don't think, my problem is ATA-related.

Re: cvsup from 4.11-RELEASE to 4.11-RELEASE-p1 28,000 errors

2005-06-25 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 11:22 +0200, Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 23:43 -0700, Leland wrote: I have got to be doing someting wrong, it is right in front of me and I just don't seel it. Hope someone can help, thanks. From a clean install of 4.11-RELEASE with All

kern.geom.raid3.syncs_per_sec=0

2005-06-25 Thread José M. Fandiño
Accidentally I set this variable to 0 and it causes a hard lock (FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2) could someone check if this reproducible in their test machines so I can open a pr? /---/ Geom name: datos State: COMPLETE Components: 3 Flags: ROUND-ROBIN GenID: 0 SyncID: 3 ID: 3217021940

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm strange.. I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters) I wonder if it's a problem where a memory

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:54, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). Sounds like a promising possibility (good pun too) - as removing the :) RAID card (in my case a

RE: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Warren, Why are you building xfree86? FreeBSD 5.4 uses Xorg. It's just about the same code just different licensing. I don't think the FreeBSD core is bothering to keep the xfree86 port working on FreeBSD 5.X just FreeBSD 4.11 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54

2005-06-25 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:13:38AM +, Balgansuren.B wrote: Hello, I have driver disk for the Windows 98/Me/2000/XP of the Buffalo WLI-PCI-G54 wireless NIC. If possible I want to know ndiscvt command convert Windows driver to FreeBSD driver module. Cool, hey anybody write vxd2ko.exe.

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:14:26AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Why are you building xfree86? FreeBSD 5.4 uses Xorg. It's just about the same code just different licensing. I don't think the FreeBSD core is bothering to keep the xfree86 port working on FreeBSD 5.X just FreeBSD 4.11 I'm

Re: ATA_DMA errors

2005-06-25 Thread Rich Wales
I had a READ_DMA timeout situation which I'm pretty sure was related to a drive problem. I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p5 on an older machine (333 MHz AMD K6). The 20 GB hard drive in this system periodically, but only occasionally, gave READ_DMA timeout errors. These errors sometimes cited identical

RE: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Linimon Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:25 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Daniel O'Connor; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Warren; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Warren
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 7:45 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: But the plain fact of the matter is that the Open Source community isn't going to tolerate what xfree86 tried doing, and the users of open source, which is you and I, are not served by splitting development between 2 forks of X Windows. The

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I'm sorry to step on the toes of the port maintainer but instead of complaining about it you need to respond to the realitites. In general I would rather do that than argue, yes. make: don't know how to make /drm.h. Stop ***

RE: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Mark Linimon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:51 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Mark Linimon; Daniel O'Connor; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Warren; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed On Sat, Jun 25,

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I find even disconnecting the drives so no RAID is detected works - ie it's not the presence of the card per se that is a problem. Good test - I had not tried that. In addition, I can confirm your observation that merely deleting the array makes the loader work

5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID controller (in mirror). The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump) but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what the dump is because it continually

5.4 fails to find boot drive, then panics.

2005-06-25 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm trying to install 5.4-RELEASE off of CDROM on an ASUS P5S800 motherboard with a SATA drive in it. The SATA drive shows up as ad4 during the install process, and the install goes just fine. But the resulting system fails to boot. It goes through the boot sequence, draws the cute 5.x booto

Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Mark Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID controller (in mirror). The

cvsup from 4.11-RELEASE to 4.11-RELEASE-p1 28,000 errors

2005-06-25 Thread Leland
I have got to be doing someting wrong, it is right in front of me and I just don't seel it. Hope someone can help, thanks. From a clean install of 4.11-RELEASE with All Distributions, cvsup-without-gui was then installed from ports. cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile will produce

Re: ATA_DMA errors - [ workaround for me ]

2005-06-25 Thread Johny Mattsson
Hi all, Today I've taken a fresh stab at the problem (I'm never at my best at 5am in the morning having worked through the night), and I have managed to come up with what appears to amount to a successful workaround. It would be good if my observations could be confirmed by someone else.