Hi I had just finished an install of FreeBSD 4.7 onto a Proliant 5500 Quad system, reconfigured the kernel to (as I thought) support SMP when my new CD set from FreeBSD Mall arrived with V5.00. I put the CDset to one side as I did make installkernel. Well the SMP kernel failed and as I seemed to be unable to recover from boot.old I decided to do another install and go for V5. Here is my report on on my experience so far with V5:
1. The boot sequence from V5 gave me an error Checksum RSDP - does anyone know what that is? 2. The graphics card is nvidia TNT2 M64 PCI in the primary PCI bus (has to be here because this card does not work in the secondary PCI bus for some reason). I struggled to get X windows working with this card on 4.7and eventualy succeeded by selecting vesa vesa as the card. While working on this I had no problems during the install process under 4.7. However installing from the V5 CD produced scattered artifacts on the screen during the file loading sequences. At the time of this email I have not even been able to attempt configuring X under V5 because of the mouse problems. 3. The next thing is there are some problems with configuring the mouse. I tried a PS/2 three button mouse KEIO with a wheel by KYE systems group and an alps glidepoint device. The latter device was recognised by the system psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc psm0: model Glidepoint, Device ID 0 There were no apparent irq clashes. No matter what choices are made the system crashes when "Trying to start the mouse daemon" . The only choice is to reboot. Disabling the mouse daemon got nowhere - X windows config program crashed! Any way I am back configuring 4.7 and am slowly overcoming the problems. I am asking for guidance on configuring SMP for this system in a separate email! David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
