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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pentinum Problem w/ FreeBSD? Date: 2 Nov 1995 22:46:35 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 39 Message-ID: <47bhob$l1h@helena.MT.net> References: <46vmeh$1bva@macro.stanford.edu> <AZEGAMI.95Nov2092117@pluto.syslsi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <AZEGAMI.95Nov2092117@pluto.syslsi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp>, Kengo Azegami <azegami@flab.fujitsu.co.jp> wrote: >fchang> I like to know if people have had problems with FreeBSD >fchang>(I use v2.0.5) on their Pentium machines, e.g., kernel exiting, page >fchang>fault, or just hung in the middle of, say, X windows. None at all. I've run 2.0.5 on a NEC Versa/P 75, an IBM 755CX (75Mhz P-5), and I'm now running 2.1-stable on a P-100 box with the Triton chipset. >fchang> If this is a common problem, will it ever be improved >fchang>or even fixed in the future releases of FreeBSD (e.g., v2.1.0)? In almost *all* of the cases where you are having problems ( >95%) it's a hardware problem. Some of the problems can be solved by messing around with the BIOS settings and/or disabling the L2 cache, so you need to find someone who is good at that sort of thing or have your machine setup by someone who is good at that and never touch it. :) >Yeah! I'm using Dell Latitude (notebook) of 90MHz pentium with 40meg >of memory. I am also having similar situation. I use the freebsd >v2.1.0 951020 snap, and my machine sometimes hung during boot stage, >or sometimes right after I started my Xfree86. It wouldn't, of course, >even recognize my keystrokes. All I can do is to turn off the power >and turn it on again with my fingers crossed !!!!!! Luckily, I never >had any disk crashes yet. :-) As I said above, I ran 2 FreeBSD 2.0.5 on two different Pentium laptops w/out any problems. I'm not sure why it doesn't work, but I do have a IBM 750C which *used* to work find, and now it's acting strange. I suspect HW problems since the TrackPoint is also not working very well, and it spontaneiously reboots while sitting idle in DOS. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.