From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 22 07:08:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14569 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 07:08:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nina.pagesz.net (nina.pagesz.net [208.194.157.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14564 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 07:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhh@pagesz.net) Received: from stealth.dummynet. (juana-21.pagesz.net [208.213.126.21]) by nina.pagesz.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26693 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:07:54 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.dummynet. (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA08248; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:08:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rhh) Message-ID: <19981122100830.A7061@pagesz.net> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:08:30 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-RELEASE Feedback Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kudos to those that worked on 3.0-RELEASE. The install went well, and I'm in the process of trying to get back set up to the level I was on with 971208-SNAP. I've hit a few snags though. Some of them may or may not be bugs, so I thought I'd mention them here first (rather than file PRs) and get feedback first: 1) lpd stalls As with 9771208-SNAP, my "ps" (ghostscript conversion) queue gets backed up and doesn't realize it has more to process if I put multiple items in the queue. I still have to "lpc start ps" to give it a kick and make it process other queued jobs (which converts them from PostScript to Lastjet, and relay them to the "lp" queue). 2) MAKEDEV doesn't seem to support cd1 stealth : /dev # sh MAKEDEV rcd1c rcd1c - no such device name stealth : /dev # sh MAKEDEV cd1c [: 1c: trailing non-numeric characters [: 1c: trailing non-numeric characters cd1c is invalid -- can't have more than 32 cd devices stealth : /dev sh MAKEDEV cd1 stealth : /dev # ls -l rcd1* /opt/bin/colorls: No match. stealth : /dev # mknod rcd1a c 15 8 stealth : /dev # mknod rcd1c c 15 10 3) cd1 probes printed 10 seconds or so after the console comes up to the login prompt after booting. cd1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd1: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device cd1: 3.300MB/s transfers cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it is a little surprising to have this stomp on the login prompt. Are device probes/drivers processed in parallel now? Should these be completing before certain system boot-up scripts are processed (rc.local, etc.)? 4) ldd(1) man page has a ref to ld.so(1), which doesn't exist. 5) sysinstall nit When you ^C to get out of installing packages in sysinstall, it prompts are you sure, you say yes, it exits, it doesn't umount the CD from /dist. Future runs of sysinstall won't use the CD until you manually unmount /dist. 6) Had to add IO_WD3 to isa.h to pick up my Tertiary IDE controller 7) Emacs 20.3 package is broken emacs 20.3 complains about Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/20.3/leim' does not exist. and ediff is unusable: Symbol's function definition is void: ediff-convert-standard-filename so I've bailed for emacs 19. 8) The VOXWARE SB16 audio code seems to have gone downhill a bit since 971208-SNAP. Samples do play, but I get pops at the start and end of playing audio samples (open/close of audio device. E.g.: cat drip.au > /dev/audio). Haven't tried Luigi's yet, but I don't want to lose AWE32 MIDI support. 9) And the bigger snag I've hit so far I'll put in a separate post. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message