Successfull install of 5.2 on AS600, some problems remain

[Wilko Bulte]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:21:50PM +0100, M. O. wrote:

Hi,

As for the fpa FDDI problem: that is a long standing bug :-(

W/

> 1. Successfull install of 5.2 on AS600
> I finally achieved to install FreeBSD on an alpha-station 600 5/333.
> 
> As far as the internal CDROM didn't read burned CDs, I tried for 2 weeks 
> to install from floppies.
> FreeBSD 4.8 was the only bootable version but hangs after SCSI 
> peripherals detection (though I preloaded ispfw for the Qlogic ISP 
> ultraWide card, I upgraded the SRM firmware to 7.2.2, I set the isp_mode 
> from fast to ultra, I set isp_mem_map=0xff as shown in HARDWARE.txt).
> Other releases alpha floppies causes SRM to return "not a correct boot 
> sector".
> 
> I took an old cd-buner (4x writespeed max), wrote a freebsd5.2-disc iso, 
> and the as600 cdrom read it! I think that the bunch of modules (even 
> uselessly loaded ones like usb) helped.
> 
> 2. remaining problems
> a. Some tools coredump, for example  :
> 
> /usr/bin/top : Segmentation fault (core dumped) and gdb /usr/bin/top 
> top.core says :
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x1602464c8 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.5
> #1  0x1601e79b4 in getpwent () from /lib/libc.so.5
> #2  0x1601cdf18 in yp_next () from /lib/libc.so.5
> 
> May be a bug in Nis ?
> 
> b. Some modules hangs (the console , the kernel ?)
> b1. Screen saver modules hang the kernel (no more ping nor keyboard) :  
> Is the TGA graphic card responsible?
> b2. The freshly built kernel detects the PCI FDDI nic.
> partial dump of pciconf -lv :
> fpa0 at pci0:7:0:  class=0x020200 card=0x00000000 chip=0x000f1011 rev=0x00 
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor   = 'Digital Equipment Corporation'
>    device   = 'FDDI "DEFPA"'
>    class    = network
>    subclass = fddi
> But ifconfig on fpa0 crashes the kernel.
> 
> c. Text consoles is broken after running X.
> The text consoles are in a bad refresh mode when switching from X 
> (Alt-F9) to text (F1-F8).
> Should I find an other video card or switch the TGA 8bit planes to 80x25 
> text mode with allscreen_flags?
> 
> 
> 
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