[rescue] OpenBSD

[Kris Kirby]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Derrick D. Daugherty wrote:
> reason i switched from fbsd on my desktop:  i have some shitty hardware
> that was given to me...don't recall the manufacturer since i didn't buy
> it...but it's a popular board..dual celeron 500 with a high point
> technologies ide controller?  for some reason the string BP6 comes to
> mind...but i don't recall the manufacturer.  anyway, fbsd would have
> hard lockups _all the goddamn time_ after going from 3-4.. the APIC on
> this board blows...but the linux kernel seems to handle it a lot better
> (at that time when i converted, it's still dual boot but i haven't uped
> fbsd).  the linux kernel will just spit out an error on the apic and not
> hang..most the time.  every once and a while it will if i'm doing too
> many things..like mp3s and tv and a dvd then open an app..  if there was
> sound coming out of the card at that point it gets stuck in a happy
> dma/irq loop...  the dma seems to write the sample in repeat because the
> soundcard interrupt hasn't acked..but i'm not good with device drivers.

I didn't have any lockups until I upgraded from 4.2-R to 4.3-S. Then xmms
+ gaim locks it up. Yes, it's a BP6; the APIC has issues -- damn near
every card I have in the machine needs an interrupt -- and will not share.


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