Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:30:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape Message-ID: <14835.37567.988247.30293@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <39F3232A.C73A4F35@home.net> References: <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net> <14834.64948.277239.994151@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <39F3232A.C73A4F35@home.net>
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Craig Burgess writes: > I tried several times but the build invariably stumbled over itself > with something similar to the condensed output textfile I'm attaching. send-pr what you attached, along with the version of the port you're using. > > /compat/osf1/etc/svc.conf? > > Um, "no" and "there is one :(Copyright (c) Digital Equipment > Corporation, 1991, 1995)" Odd. Mine is 63 lines long and matches the md5 checksum recorded when I installed the osf1_base port (as a dependancy of the netscape port). > Each of the many Netscape or Netscape Communicator ports I tried > failed, informing me that it was for i386 (BSDI, Linux and "plain"). I > got the Tru64v4 tarball from Netscape. A large number of people have installed netscape from ports with no problem at all. Myself included. Perhaps something was broken very recently... I have the following installed on my home miata, running 4.1: <9:27pm>serendipity/gallatin:~>ls -1 /var/db/pkg | egrep 'netscape|osf' netscape-communicator-4.75/ netscape-remote-1.0/ netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07/ osf1_base-4.0f/ > The whole and complete point to the exercise was to see if the 500 MHz > Alpha could handle an inbound webcam stream better than a 300MHz > Celeron and so far the answer is "nope." (At 300MHz the PC easily > became CPU-bound but overclocking the celery to 450+ allows decent > webcam framerate without choking. On the Alpha one live webcam video > at 12fps drew 97% processor time said TOP.) Probably a lot of it is going to dealing with XF86, which due to a sub-optimal compiler, sucks pretty badly. Sigh. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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