From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 6:34:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.qx.net (darkstar.qx.net [208.235.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575A737B6FB for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:34:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfreeze@qx.net) Received: from mail2.qx.net (mail.qx.net [208.235.88.233]) by darkstar.qx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11737 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:34:50 -0500 From: jfreeze@qx.net Received: from mail.qx.net ([208.235.88.43]) by mail2.qx.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA4AFE; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:33:17 -0500 To: Christoph Sold Cc: jim@freeze.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: FBSD + KDE + Netscape == STABLE?? Date: Thu, Mar 30 2000 9:34:49 GMT-0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <773614F6CF5.AAA4AFE@mail2.qx.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph: Thanks for the reply. My system died again last night. And, after performing several fsck operations within the last several days, I think my system is thoroughly corrupted, so I started a new install this morning after wiping the hard drive. Your suggestion of the bad RAM may very well be the case. Is there a way to tell for sure? Also, let me fill you in on the hardware details and a few of my mistakes. Then, maybe you can make a better guess. (These are from memory, since I am sending this from work) CPU: 333MHz K6-2 MotherBoard: AOpen - refurb (yeah, I know. But I figured a mb would either work or not) RAM - 64MB - don't know the clock speed. I asked the salesman if it was commodity (low) grade. He assured me that it wasn't. It cost ~$60.00. For him to make a profit, I'm thinking that it would have to be commodity grade. HardDrive - New 10.2GB Western Digital CDROM - New 40x - don't know the brand VideoCard: 8MB PA50V Aopen 2X AGP Kernel - I modifed one line of the GENERIC kernel to support a sound card. device pcm0 I believe it was. Other than the memory, I would think all the above should be ok. Also, xfree86 does not fully support the SiS6326 chipset on my video card, so I had to upgrade to 3.3.6. I think that what I downloaded from their ftp site was actually 3.3.6-current. As I understand it now, assuming xfree86 is similar to freebsd, I don't want the current version if stability is a problem. The crash I had last night was an xfree86 crash. All previous crashes were total lockups and reboots of the system. So, maybe I have been suffering from two problems: flakey memory and an unstable xfree86. For the new install, I am making sure to get xfree86 ver 3.3.6 and not the current. I hope this helps. My 2 main questions are, do I have to modify the kernel for the K6 cpu, and how would I go about verifying flakey ram? Thanks Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message