DragonFly usability issues

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 1:05 am, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>
> run `dhclient ath0`. If I omit any of these steps (with the occasional
> excpetion of the first one) the card just times out trying to get a
> DCHP response.  I'm guessing the cardbus isn't initializing right
> and switching the slots makes something happen which fixes
> something, but I have no proof.

Does it matter which slot you start in?  I thought I had a similar issue
with an IBM 600E, but it was apparently damage over time to having cards
crammed into the slot.  Moving to a different slot fixed the issue, though
it does sound more like a chipset support issue in your case.

> The temporary lockup issue:
> Just doing common things (browsing the web, etc) after a while the machine
> will lock yp for 5 seconds, the fan will come on and then the input
> will work again.

That one's wierd.  Does running with or without ACPI enabled affect this? 
It may be worth looking at the system temperature when this is happening.

> The sound card:
> I'd like to use the sound card on this machine, If I kldload the snd_csa
> driver the sound card claims to be working, it makes noise if I cat
> junk to /dev/dsp but I can't get mpd(pkgsrc/audio/musicpd) to work
> with it. In addition dmesg spews lots of livelock errors like
> the following:

Here's a kernel conf file from someone using a 570E under FreeBSD 5.x; it
lists pcm and csa for audio drivers.

http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_config&config=kernel&laptop=382

musicpd uses the library faad2 to play mp4 files.  faad2 does not allow
binary redistribution, so you have to build it from source.  When I built
faad2 on my 1.4.x system here (so I could play .mp4 in XMMS), it built
fine but would crash XMMS every time I loaded it.  Can you try a different
audio player?