FreeBSD usable as a workstation on a blade 100
neal elliott
nealelliott at netscape.net
Mon May 5 13:12:18 PDT 2003
where is the todo list for FreeBSD on a blade 100?
will at csociety.org wrote:
>On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, neal elliott wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Now I Have FreeBSD installed on my blade 100 system I noticed how much
>> faster it
>>is then solaris. Is there anyone who uses FreeBSD on their blade 100 as a
>>full blown
>>workstation with XFree86 installed and useable? when I connect the usb
>>keyboard to
>>the system then boot into FreeBSD I get a error "panic: pcib unrecoverable
>>DMA error AFAR 0x84008 AFSR 0x4100ff00208" then the system goes in to a
>>endless rebooting loop. has anyone seen this problem before? I'm guessing
>>this must be a USB keyboard related issue;
>>this only happens when I connect the USB keyboard. when I disconnect the
>>keyboard and
>>leave the mouse connected everything works fine I just have to use the
>>serial console.
>>
>>
>
>No, I only use my Blade 100 headless. The USB stack is not
>usable on FreeBSD/sparc64. X11 servers don't work (AFAIK). That
>is all on the todo list, but I don't anticipate a Blade 100 being
>usable as a FreeBSD workstation for a few months at least.
>
>Regards,
>
>
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