Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:02:57 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALPHA Multia and FreeBSD 4.3-RC Message-ID: <20010410110257.Z66243@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104081911020.2675-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:19:49PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104081911020.2675-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On 2001-Apr-08 19:19:49 +0200, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> wrote: >First: I have no access to the console! The builtin TGA is not supported yet. It is currently being worked on and you can find a work-in-progress tarball against 4.2-RELEASE in http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/TGA/tga.tar.gz Your current options are to either use a serial console or to install a VGA-compatible graphics card. >Second: I tried to make a world. Due the fact the machine is really slow >it took a long time from starting the first make world up to the >point it failed. My Multia reboots spontanously and shows me the console, >awaiting the boot command. Multia's are notorious for suffering heat-related problems. It is essential that it be run vertically, with the fan at the top. You might also like to replace the fan with one that actually moves air as well as replacing the 74F623 (see http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html for more details). The power supply is also quite marginal and if your HDD is internal, you might like to consider mounting it externally (with an external power supply). I also found that one of my cache chips was a bit slow and I needed to change the L2 cache timings to make my Multia stable. Note that the SRM does not enable ECC on the L2 cache by default. > What's up with the Alpha? Basically DEC stuffed the design of the Multia. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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