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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!alumni!atk From: atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU (Alan T Krantz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pentinum Problem w/ FreeBSD? Date: 2 Nov 1995 16:14:50 GMT Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder CS Dept Lines: 44 Message-ID: <47aqpq$68k@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> References: <46vmeh$1bva@macro.stanford.edu> <AZEGAMI.95Nov2092117@pluto.syslsi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.cs.colorado.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Kengo Azegami (azegami@flab.fujitsu.co.jp) wrote: : fchang>Hi, : fchang> : 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. : fchang> : fchang> I am using a 75 MHz Pentium and a Triton-cy board : fchang>with Intel Triton chipset. : fchang> : 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)? : fchang> : fchang>- Fang : 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 can see you are using 2.0.5, maybe this can be a problem with : pentium. Any cures for these kinda situation??? The only problem I have is that a lot of times X will hang - to be precise it will stop recognizing the keyboard (i.e, even CAP-LOCK won't turn on the cap-lock light). However, the mouse will still work and if I use the window manager to kill the console window (which causes X to exit) then everything works fine (i.e, I can use the keyboard and restart X). I'm really not sure if this is a bug with XFree or FreeBSD but it happens often enough to be annoying and is tempting to switch to some other OS that doesn't have this problem. I'm sure it is a software problem but I don't know (as I already said) if it is with FreeBSD or XFree. Hum, only other thing i can note is I've used ??Xmodmap?? (not sure of the program name) to swap the control key and shift key. This may or may not be related to the problem. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problem on demand - but it seems to happen most often when I am typing very fast and using multi-key strokes (i.e, control and control/shift in combo). atk