New to FreeBSD 4.9 questions about configuration

[Roman Neuhauser]

# larrykh465 at SoftHome.net / 2004-01-09 12:57:26 -0800:
> I changed /etc/ttys ie.
> #ttyv8	"/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"	xterm	off secure
> ttyv8	"/usr/local/bin/kdm"		xterm	on  secure

> it woks as expected but with respect to the /etc/ttys  right before X
> starts I am getting a message refering to abnormal helper termination
> error code 0 it doesn't seem to be hurting antthing, can I fix it?

    google. this is a common problem, the warning is benign.

> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn 42387790; 
> cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn 42387790; 
> cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42387790 of 4160-4163 (ad0s2 bn 42387790; 
> cn 2638 tn 132 sn 4) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn 42379502; cn 
> 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn 42379502; cn 
> 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn 42379502; cn 
> 2638 tn 0 sn 32) retrying
> ad0s2a: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 42379502 of 16-19 (ad0s2 bn 42379502; cn 
> 2638 tn 0 sn 32) falling back to PIO mode
> in bois the hard drives pio mode is set to auto I have the options of
> auto,and pio mode 1-5, I have tried to play with this abit but no
> diference how do I either make the hard drive work with the udma mode
> or configure the kernal to stay at pio mode in the first place? 

    this error has several possible reasons, one of them being a crappy
    cable:
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-November/025669.html
 
> I stiil need to set up the printer "Apollo p-2600"  havnt even tried
> yet.

    ISTR there's a chapter on printing in the Handbook, did you read it?

> and last but not least cdburner software when I had linux going.but gave up 
> trying to keep up with it,   I had K3B who do I beg to  port  this??

    a colleague of mine (a Mandraker) uses k3b, and from the look of it
    it's just a gui frontend to cdrecord... try kde at freebsd.org.



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