Some problems installing dragonFly BSD. Can anybody help?

[Justin Sherrill]

I agree on the random video RAM contents thing - that would have been
my first guess.

The wireless connection Matt and I both had trouble with, with ath(4),
was using WPA2, though I don't know the device.  If you want to try
different setups and see what works and what doesn't, that would make
a useful report.

Maybe set sysctl kern.emergency_intr_enable=1?  I don't remember if
that's already been suggested, or if that would apply in this case.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Matthias Rampke
<matthias.rampke at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Montag, 9. Mai 2011 at 09:47, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>> One thing that happened both times: on startx, the laptop screen filled
>> with semi-random-looking blocks of colour for a split second before
>> going into the wm. I think I've seen this before on some linux
>> installs. Presumably X is configured to some default (vesa?) and not
>> the particular graphics card, screen, etc., I have on my laptop.
> I don't think that's anything to worry about … I've once seen what I had on screen before the last reboot, so I guess this is just random contents of video RAM being displayed before anything is drawn over them.
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> On Samstag, 7. Mai 2011 at 17:44, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> This is a new bug, then, cause I think the original ath(4) problem is fixed. I don't have the right laptop and wireless combo to test. In any case, you may want to file a report including the network encryption type.
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> From what I can tell from [1] this has not been fixed. I can still file a report if that helps? Also note that I have control over the WLAN router (other than my flatmates kicking me when I kill their internet), so if I can provide any additional info / try anything out let me know.
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> Re: IO APIC
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> Disabling IO APIC didn't help with the SMP kernel, it complains about lapic initialization before dropping to the debugger (is there a LAPIC loader tunable? I can't find any documentation on this or hw.apic_io_enable). Are SMP kernels on UP machines *supposed* to work anyway?
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> -matthiasr
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> [1] http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/history/HEAD:/sys/dev/netif/ath
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