Date: Thu, Mar 30 2000 9:34:49 GMT-0500 From: jfreeze@qx.net To: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> Cc: jim@freeze.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: FBSD + KDE + Netscape == STABLE?? Message-ID: <773614F6CF5.AAA4AFE@mail2.qx.net>
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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
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