From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 15 14:54:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667D637B401 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frostbytes.com (dsl092-065-149.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.65.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8434C43E6E for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimf@frostbytes.com) Received: from snowball.frostbytes.com (snowball.frostbytes.com [192.168.1.193]) by frostbytes.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA03949; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:53:43 -0400 Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.6 rl0 and xl0 watchdog timeout problems (and solution) From: Jim Frost To: Daniel Eriksson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 15 Aug 2002 17:55:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1029448514.14968.76.camel@snowball.frostbytes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:48, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Not that it in any way helps you, but FreeBSD is not the only OS > sensitive to IRQ sharing. Even Windows has its problems, like trying to > get a Soundblaster Live! card to share IRQ with the USB controller. > Depending on the motherboard and driver version it will either BSOD on > you or just lock up without even a blue screen. Yup; now that I know it's an IRQ conflict I'm ok with that ... I just didn't have any way of knowing that that was the problem (irq12 was not reported as being used by any device other than my ethercard). What I had been confronted with seemed bizarre ... card works in one slot, doesn't work in another. I do miss the days of IRQ jumpers, at least you knew what was using what. > As to your complaint about having to manually select every package: I > see this as a conservative design decision. There are a bunch of > packages that will install applications or scripts that weakens the > security of your box, so by not defaulting to install everything (even > making it difficult to select everything) like some Linux distros do, > you automatically get a safer, more secure system. That's fine with me, but there should be a way to /tell/ the installer that you want to select (and de-select) them all. Tediously selecting hundreds upon hundreds of checkboxes individually is ridiculous. In comparison to every other installer I've used in the last five or six years this one is quite primitive, and irritatingly so. jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message