Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:37:27 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: various rants about 7-currnet on AMD64 Message-ID: <bef9a7920709302137u431efdb0oe00bb6903327dea8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47007665.3080306@freebsd.org> References: <bef9a7920709302022o5ce92382t4c21bfeb8f799a63@mail.gmail.com> <bef9a7920709302030x19fabe33qdcd0496e4cbb6d02@mail.gmail.com> <47007665.3080306@freebsd.org>
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> > 6.2 -- > > > > * Horrid non-SMP kernel performence (acceptable after SMP was added) > > 'horrid' means nothing to anyone without some details. installworld took 4 hours > > > * Xorg (7.2) not working at all (vesa 640x480 with no mouse was the best I > > managed) > > Again, no details. This sounds an Xorg issue anyhow, right? Sorry but do a search on -x11 and -questions for nvidia issues and you will see the background > > > > * Many TCP/IP stack issues > See "7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?" thread in -questions (notably the sub thread between me and Kris Kennaway) > > > * All native java builds fail with compile errors > > Copy/paste? Did you email them to the java@ list? Ports list? I just assumed they where all due to 7-current still being under development until I switched to amd64 and they all went away without saving the output > > > * hplip fails immediately after install > > Errors? monsert# uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Sep 30 20:57:46 UTC 2007 aryeh@monsert:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monsert# hpiod can't open or create : m io/hpiod/hpiod.cpp 195 > > > * Doesn't recognize PATA drives if installed at the same time as SATA > > > > 7-CURRENT i386 -- > > > > * Horrid performence under default kernel needed to switch to > > ULE/IPI_PREMEPTION/DEVICE_POLLING > > Again, no details. Ran slower then my old p4 2.8 (non-SMP i386 6.2-pl5) > > > * Kernel sees card after install of nvidia driver but Xorg (7.3) > > doesn't recognize it (vesa 1024x768 only)... many address conflicts > > reported... nv driver is no better > > Did you look at the supported hardware for the NVidia driver? How about > the nv driver? Yes and the kernel reconized the card but Xorg did not > > > * All native java builds fail with compile errors > > Too bad you didn't include any of them. See above. > > > * hplip fails immediately after install > > I'm sound like a broken record.. Same error as above > > > * Diablo-jdk15 completely broken for any GUI oriented code > > Closes any window immediately and exits
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