From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 20 19: 8:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from saruman.xwin.net (saruman.xwin.net [205.219.158.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848FA37B41A; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 19:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dp@localhost) by saruman.xwin.net (8.11.4/8.9.1) with ESMTP id fBL38aY14060; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:08:36 -0600 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:08:36 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Halliday X-X-Sender: To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 In-Reply-To: <20011220182137.F70525@citusc17.usc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:45:51PM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > > > > I'm not aware of any services that broke between 4.3 and 4.4. Care to > > > elaborate? > > > > scan through freebsd-questions, freebsd-mobile and freebsd-ports > > That's completely non-helpful. I read -questions and -ports, and > don't recall complaints of massive breakage in 4.4. Perhaps you'd > care to be more specific so we can actually address the problems, if > they exist? My soundcard on my lappy has been broken since 4.4. And to be brutally honest, it's really starting to piss me off. > > > as for moving to fbsd 4.4 for a 'maybe' fix of something that might > still > show up in 4.4 (according to other posts) > > this seems to be > in the kernel anyway, so why would moving from a known > to an unknown > be a good thing? > > Because there are dozens or even hundreds of kernel bugs fixed since > 4.3, so there's a very good chance yours was one of them. > > Kris > Paul H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message