Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:12:49 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Cc: BSD Users Group <bugs@bugs.au.freebsd.org> Subject: SMP, KDE3 and OpenOffice Message-ID: <20060716145103.C380@freebsd.connect-a.com.au>
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Dear All, I'm trying to set up FreeBSD on my box, which has an Intel D945GNT motherboard, two 3.2GHz processors, 1GB memory. The system installs OK and I've been able to use cvsup to upgrade everything, remake the kernel (for SMP), build OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 KDE 3.5. However, three problems remain unsolved in spite of all of these things: 1. Only one processor seems to be used. The output from top -S is: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: cpu1 12 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN 0 139:40 98.34% idle: cpu0 2. KDE 3.5 does not like to run any screensaver. They all run OK on test, and if I run the actual programs themselves, there is no problem. However, KDE will not start them up automatically. 3. OpenOffice.org does not like any of the files produced from anywhere else. I have stuff written in StarOffice 5.2 and in MS Word, but none of these will open. Even stuff written using OpenOffice.org 2 on a MS system is not acceptable. The error is always "General I/O Error". OpenOffice will read files that it has written quite OK and permissions, ownership, etc all seem to be OK. Neither the KDE nor the OpenOffice problem has altered by upgrading these two systems and the SMP problem is also the same as with the GENERIC kernel. uname -a gives: FreeBSD grandpa.connect-a.com.au 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Jul 15 16:46:44 EST 2006 root@grandpa.connect-a.com.au:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SMP i386 Any pointers to any of these problems would be most welcome. Thank you. Cheers, Rob Hurle (It's called "grandpa" temporarily - it'll take the place of the real "grandpa" when it's ready ;-) ----------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013 Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 Ainslie Cell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: rob@coombs.anu.edu.au -----------------------------------------------------
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