From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 10 16:46:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from radicalmedia.com (eel.radicalmedia.com [204.254.246.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5583837B6A9 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phiber@radicalmedia.com) Received: (from phiber@localhost) by radicalmedia.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA05506; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20000410194540.H18251@radicalmedia.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:45:40 -0400 From: Mark Abene To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: some observed problems after new install Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on my PC164. So far, I've been very impressed. I built XFree86 3.3.6 from the ports collection, and it works beautifully with my S3/ViRGE video card. Here are the details of some problems I've come across with various things: 1) I'm using an original SB16 ISA-PnP card with "device pcm" in my kernel config file. My kernel is built specifically for EB/PC164. It gets probed perfectly on boot, very impressive. My problem is with playing mp3's. Both xmms and mpg123q exhibit a random tendency to play loud static. If a song starts ok, it will play fine in its entirety. However sometimes when starting a song, loud static will be heard. Repeating the process will get the song to play fine, but I was wondering... Might there be a problem with the pcm/sbc driver corrupting isa dma? Or something more sinister? I'm listening to mp3's right now, so it does work, only sometimes at random I get loud static when a song starts. Very odd. This is a dual-boot machine, I also have alpha/linux installed and it does not exhibit this problem. 2) I've installed emacs 19 from the ports collection. The X version works fine, but running "emacs -nw" causes the status bar to be indented a quarter way across the screen, causing it to wrap around to the next line, totally corrupting the screen and making emacs unusable. Ctrl-L doesn't fix the problem. Anyone else see this? 3) The S/key calculator /usr/bin/key is broken. It gives totally wrong answers. It's probably a 64-bit issue, easily fixable in the source, but I just wanted to report it. "opiekey -4" on the other hand works fine, so it isn't a complete loss. That's all for now, I'll report more observations as I come across them. -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message