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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Bug (?) in FreeBSD 1.1 ahb driver and some comments/questions
Date: 14 Sep 1994 19:51:02 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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Message-ID: <357d67$7pn@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>
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The last weekend I assembled my new home PC. The system is EISA based
with an Adaptec 1740.
After configuring the hardware I tried booting FreeBSD, the installation
notes said, the ahb driver was autoconfigurating, so I left the board
settings unchanged (enhanced mode, IRQ 15).
The kernel seemed to initialize correctly, the board settings were
reported (correctly!)), but when the kernel tried to mount the root
floppy the system simply rebooted.
I won't bother you with the details of changing second level cache
configuration, bus timing, removing nearly every other board from
the system ... aren't PCs fun? So many options to tweak ;-)
I finally set the controller to standard mode (and then IRQ 11, of course)
and everything worked! What gave me the final hint was the kernel still
reporting the adapter as ahb0 instead of aha0 so I switched back to
enhanced mode leaving the IRQ set at 11. Then the system worked.
I'd definitely call this a bug, at least a bug in the installation notes,
but if the driver is supposed to be autoconfigurating, maybe there is
a bug in the driver.
Since then the machine worked like a charme. I installed the patches from 1.1
to 1.1.5.1, typed "make world" and 10 hours later everything was done. Great!
I then installed XF86 2.1.1 and then xview, xv, ghostscript and ghostview
from the ports directory of the 1.1 CDROM.
Only olvwm needed a little patch - seems like the BSD regexp library has gone
in favour of a POSIX regex.
Olvwm now doesn't draw the virtual desktop mini window correctly: the dashed
lines that mark physical screen size are scrambled.
I think I read about someone trying to install Open Look 4.0 on Linux -
does this mean there is an Xview release later than 3.2?
The next little problem: I didn't get how to configure olwm (especially the
root menue) from the manpage (yet). I found fvwm and mwm rather easy to
configure so now I'm a little bit confused - can anyone give me a quick
HOWTO or a set of sample files (there seem to be so many instead of only
one system.fvwmrc).
Last question: how do I install a HP Deskjet 500 so that I can print
ASCII, PS and DVI? This printer should be fairly common.
Thanks in advance, Paddy
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