Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:08:30 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@pagesz.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.0-RELEASE Feedback Message-ID: <19981122100830.A7061@pagesz.net>
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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.
<Had to manually create them using the numbers from 971208-SNAP>
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: <RICOH MP6200S 2.20> 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
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