help: booting 5.2.1 hangs on pcm

Hello list. I am trying to setup freebsd on a new hp pavilion with the following configuration. cpu: amd64 mem: 1Gb hd: 160 Gb gc: nVIDIA GeForce FX5200XT AGP 8X with 128Mb dvd: 1 nec dvd rw/cd rw cd: 1 cd 48x r sc: integrated sound card not sure on details of it but windows show it as ac97 mon

5.2.1 hangs solved and now find a way to split the ntfs hard drive.

Thanks to everyone which read my post. all I had to do was to go with the #2 boot option which is without apci. Now as in subject line, have to figure a way to split the hard drive which short sitedly by the hp was patitioned in 1 big chunk and formated in ntfs format. According to freebsd docs I

kernel panic in 5.3 whene compiling custom kernel.

Hello list. Thanks for your time. My apology if the format of my mail is not correct, I am using a webmail program. My hardware is an amd64 2.2 Gh proc. with 1Gb ddr mem and 160 Gb ide hard drive and nvidia geforce FX5200XT AGP with 128Mb ddr. I have downloaded 5.3 RELEASE and burn it on cd and did

config sendmail

Hello list, Having truble sending mail through my ISP. I have freebsd 7.1 amd-64 generic installed. With smart host defined for sendmail I get my mails returned with unknown sender esma...@ca.inter.net. My user name at ISP is epashapouri and smtp server does not require authentication. I added use