Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:36:17 -0400 From: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.x grudges Message-ID: <4C3644D1.6000407@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <20100708210611.GA34250@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <20100708210611.GA34250@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 07/08/10 17:06, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T."<mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
>
>> In no particular order:
>>
>> 1.
>> A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and
>> then used as a screen-saver), stopped showing properly. The
>> colors are right, but the picture is distorted beyond recognition.
>> The relevant part of loader.conf is:
>>
>> splash_pcx_load="YES"
>> vesa_load="YES"
>> bitmap_load="YES"
>> bitmap_name="/boot/187426-9-quokka-dreaming.pcx"
>>
> It's a bit difficult to provide any useful input without some idea
> of what the picture should and does look like. Can you please post
> the actual bitmap as well as a picture of your screen showing the
> problem.
>
>
>> 3.
>> Likewise, having "device ugen" breaks config(8) -- another
>> undocumented incompatibility.
>>
> Can you please advise where it is documented that "device ugen"
> is valid in a FreeBSD-8 config file?
>
NAME
ugen -- USB generic device support
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line
in your
kernel configuration file:
device ugen
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
ugen_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The ugen driver provides support for all USB devices that do not
have a
special driver. It supports access to all parts of the device,
but not
in a way that is as convenient as a special purpose driver.
There can be up to 127 USB devices connected to a USB bus. Each USB
device can have up to 16 endpoints. Each of these endpoints will
commu-
<snip>
uname -a
FreeBSD lholt-desktop.primemediaanalysis.com 8.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD
8.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue May 25 20:54:11 UTC 2010
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
I'm not going to argue in favor of any points in this rant, but it is in
the man page. As someone who's done some release engineering and worked
with sysinstall on my own project, I can tell you it's a real pain and
developers in the FreeBSD community deserve courtesy. Most of us work
on open source for free in our own time, and it's impossible to test
every possible configuration before a release.
Luke
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