Followup On Recent MCA Madness. WAS: Need Help With MCA Code

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday, February 01, 2014 3:44:07 pm Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 11:48 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > On 01/31/2014 11:22 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:49:21 pm Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >>> Resending in hopes that people on one of the other lists will have some 
insight here:
> >>>
> >>> On 01/27/2014 10:50 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >>>> I am running 9.2 stable i386 r261207.  As noted earlier:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I just replaced mobo/CPU on FBSD server (Gigabyte Z-87-D3HP with
> >>>>> an Intel i3-4130).  I am not overclocking ...  but I continue to see 
this sort of thing:
> >>>>
> >>>>> MCA: CPU 0 COR (1) internal parity error
> >>>>
> >>>> Dmesg shows:
> >>>>
> >>>>> MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x306c3, APIC ID 0
> >>>>> MCA: CPU 0 COR (1) internal parity error
> >>>>> MCA: Bank 0, Status 0x90000040000f0005
> >>>>> MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000c07, Status 0x0000000000000000_
> >>>>
> >>>> I've swapped CPUs (i5). I've fiddled with an endless supply of
> >>>> mobo settings. I've switched power supplies.  I've moved mem
> >>>> sticks around ....   No joy.
> >>>>
> 
> This got resolved when I did a completely fresh install of FBSD 10
> on the server.  This made the MCAs  go away.  I therefore conclude
> that there were one of several possible root causes:
> 
>    - FreeBSD i386 doesn't play nice with Haswell parts
>    - FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE i386 doesn't place nice with Haswell parts
>    - My FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE i386 instance was corrupted somehow
> 
> My belief is that it is mostly likely the last culprit, absent
> someone confirming that the first two are possibilities.
> 
> The good thing that came out of this is that I finally
> upgraded this server in some important ways:
> 
>    - 64 bit
>    - FreeBSD 10
>     - Latest bind 9
> 
> Now, if I could just figure out how to get stock X to
> run at 1920x1080 on HD4600 graphics.  Apparently neither the
> intel of vesa drivers know how to do this, or at least I've
> had no luck with it.  The intel driver doesn't even recognize
> the hardware as something it supports.
> 
> "X on a server?" you say?  Yes, for intermittent use of fluxbox
> to run a bunch of xterms.

For the Intel graphics you want to use i915kms.  However, you need to build 
your ports with 'WITH_NEW_XORG=yes' set in /etc/make.conf.  There are more 
details about this on the wiki.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

-- 
John Baldwin