From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 18:39:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4941516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABA9E43D31 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 14587 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 02:39:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 02:39:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:39:48 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040212023949.ABA9E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: 5.2.1-RC issues: good and bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:39:50 -0000 APIC didn't like me in 5.2, and it still doesn't like me in 5.2.1 (vr0 complains of watchdog timeout and fails to work) I've turned it off in the bios, so freebsd doesn't get to use that. (Which is okay, I guess?) Fortunately, X works again in 5.2.1. With 5.2, nv AND nvidia driver were having trouble giving me a resolution higher than 640x480. (I haven't heard/seen any changes that would have fixed this, but somehow it works again...) Two things are giving me i386_set_ldt warnings: o nvidia's drivers (XFree86) o wine (completely broken until portupgrade) I portupgraded wine, and I got no more warnings for that (yes, I cheated and installed it even with the broken plist...). I have a smallish question: is the i386_set_ldt warning because of switch to libkse as the default threads library? (see next paragraph for my chatter about that) (It appears to me that this warning was added ahead of the anticipated switch over, but does not appear to be switched over in 5.2.1-RC. I am getting this from the fact that UPDATING does not mention it in 5.2.1-RC, and nvidia drivers are still working fine). I had a few other problems, but they weren't really FreeBSD specific problems (things like bios's boot virus checker, and my .blackboxrc file reset). Bonus points for 5.2.1, since 5.2.1-RC has definately been smoother than 5.2R was for me. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # You can't resist the temptation to mimic an orange. # -- NetHack