From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 10 22:08:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78FE0F82; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44F3F1DF0; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A685B95D; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:08:44 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Followup On Recent MCA Madness. WAS: Need Help With MCA Code Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:18:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.4-CBSD-20130906; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <52E73717.3000503@tundraware.com> <52EBE1FA.2040603@tundraware.com> <52ED5C97.8030503@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <52ED5C97.8030503@tundraware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201402101618.43685.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:08:44 -0500 (EST) Cc: Tim Daneliuk , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:08:45 -0000 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