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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: FreeBSD multiple problems Message-ID: <1993Nov20.224542.8926@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 22:45:42 GMT Lines: 30 Unrelated symptoms in areas where others are having no problems suggest to me that maybe I've done something stupid. Here are some symptoms: 1. uname is run by /etc/rc, and seg faults. It seg faults if I run it manually also, no matter what args. 2. XF86_SVGA won't stay up no matter what I put in Xconfig. Some times it won't get past its (**) reports, and only once have I been able to see it report (--) the clocks. I understand the 8 clock numbers I'm supposed to feed it. I've got a no-named SVGA with CL-GD 5422 chip, and a NEC 3FGx mon., so I can only run 800x600 apparently. 3. SLIP connections fail miserably, to a Cisco terminal server doing "ip unnumbered" meaning the FreeBSD's IP address is on the same subnet as the Cisco box itself. I can telnet some places and not others, and ping never works. If I telnet to a host and ping back, the line freezes and never comes loose. V.32bis/V.42bis modem at 19.2. Each of these symptoms looks a bit like minor misconfiguration, but each has resisted every twiddle I could think of. I don't really want to post my kernel's config (FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE), my Xconfig (SVGA, pretty standard) or the specific slattach, ifconfig and route commands, but I will if anyone thinks they may have an idea on how I got so crippled! HELP! Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov "After all, computers have rights too!" - Ernst Bacon, 1898-1990 -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY