Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:31:51 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release Schedule for 2006 Message-ID: <200512191131.51954.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de> References: <20051217120101.BBEDB16A440@hub.freebsd.org> <20051217234448.GA68713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051218140258.GF7262@laverenz.de>
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:32, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:44:48PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I don't know his exact problems either, but I could name you a few
> examples that currently reduce the fun of using FreeBSD:
If you're going to do this, please write a GOOD bug report. Yes it is more=
=20
time consuming, but your actually likely to get the problem fixed.
> - The sound sytem is broken in FreeBSD in all 5.x and 6 versions, and I
> would like to listen to a few mp3-files from time to time.
This is a non bug report. Sound works perfectly on the various pieces of=20
hardware I have (snd_vt8233, snd_ich, snd_t4dwave).
> - To my surprise it's almost impossible to use the parallel port with
> interrupts ("interrupt storms"), polling mode works...
This is a fixable side effect of the interrupt storm detector being=20
implemented.
Arguably the default limit should be bumped up, but I don't know what the c=
ons=20
are. In your case you can do..
sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=3D50000
and all should be well again.
> - wlan is broken, my Thinkpad keeps losing WPA-PSK connection very often
> (probably kern/88793).
"Works for me" (tm). Although I have an ath card. Perhaps you should take i=
t=20
up with the ipw(4) driver maintainer?
> - Keeping the system and the ports up to date gets more and more time
> consuming and risky (especially when compared to an "apt-get update &&
> apt-get upgrade"). For example, the last devel/pear update in the
> ports crashed my PHP installations on 2 development machines (still no
> clue how to fix this).
Bit of a hammer, but you could try rebuilding php..
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
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