Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 03:16:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us, emory!freebsd.org!jkh@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard locks up 950622-SNAP Message-ID: <199506261016.DAA03511@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <254.804140469@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 05:21:09 am
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> > > Hardware is ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard - Aries chip set, 486-33 > > Intel, 16mb, a 1gb segate and a 200mb conner on onboard pci/ide, > > logitech bus mouse, generic io card, sound-blaster 16 with panasonic You didn't mention video card type. Is it a PCI video card or a VLB video card. One needs to be carefull on this board if you use the VLB card you can only use 1 PCI master. If you don't use the VLB slot you can use 2 PCI masters. I also don't have enough context here to judge what the problem was :-(. > Hmmm. Is the cache set to write-through rather than write-back with > this motherboard? I've heard that you don't want to run it in > write-back mode due to some DMA conflict botches, though I may have > the wrong motherboard in mind. You have the wrong model motherboard. The PVI-486AP4 has a working write back cache. It is the PCI/I-486SP3G that has the broken right back cache (actually, you need a dirty cache ram chip and revision 1.8 or later of the board and the cache will do write back correctly). > > BTW, about the install. Why, if I gave the dos partition a mount > > point in disklable, does sysinstall unmount it after loading the > > various distributions you choose? If you then go to install some > > Hmmm. It's being cute, but perhaps too much so.. I'll take the > umount out.. > > > Want some interesting screen mumble jumble? After the system is > > up, try running sysinstall from the second screen. :) > > Ummm.. That's kind of an unexpected thing to do.. :-) Perhaps I should > put in a check to make sure only one's running at a time! :) > > > If I install bin, then after the system is up go back and install > > say, manpages, it still gives me a "remade all devices". > > Hmmm.. Odd.. I'll go look. > > Thanks for the feedback! > > Jordan > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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