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From: ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Chris Origer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling on 2.0.5/950622-SNAP reboots my pc
Date: 11 Jul 1995 21:21:39 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: Chris Origer <ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
: >Not sure. Don't think this is the problem. Even with the cache disabled
: >the machine will still reboot. I was hoping maybe it was the soundcard, nope.
: >My setup works perfectly under Linux (and dos for that matter). Everything 
: >has been deconflicted. 

: Weird.  Looks similar to the problem somebody had with Linux.  He's
: getting constantly SIGSEGV's when compiling under Linux but not under
: FreeBSD.  Anyway, all this looks like RAM problems, even though it's
: weird.  Hellmuth Michaelis has been reporting similar weird things
: recently.  For an HP Vectra, he could succesfully boot the FreeBSD
: installation floppy, but somewhere in the installation process, the
: box simply froze.  After disabling and pulling almost everything
: except the RAM and the mainboard, he finally decided to change the
: SIMMs, too, and this helped.  (Dos and Windoze ran fine, of course. :)
: -- 
: cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
:                                    http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
To follow up my own thread...

I went ahead and clocked the cpu back down to 66 (a dx2/66 overclocked to 
80), it works now. I still can't figure why I've had _NO_ problems at all 
under linux (with the cpu overclocked). Luck? I think not. 
On a side note their are some other strange (and not so strange) problems I'm
having: 

	1. When suspending 'man' the terminal will not echo any 
characters back (using the vt100 termcap entry) to the screen until you reset
the tty. This is on a terminal. 

	2. While using 'tip' to dial a site I connect fine... but it 
hangs after about 5 seconds. I can use the exact same modem string under 
linux and connect fine. Everything I can see about how the port is setup 
seems fine. May this is an operator (me) problem?

	3. My cdrom (mitsumi) more than not times out mounting during boot.
I'ts probed fine and mounts fine when I do it by hand. Again never any 
problems before now.

Thanks to all the people who responded to my request for help. Especially the
developers that responded. I really like linux but BSD seems to be more 
'professionally' organized and just as functional (for a job I may have 
coming up). 


Thanks, 

Chris