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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:11:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: 2.2-960226-SNAP now on ftp.freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <199603021311.OAA01097@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <13453.825450507@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 27, 96 11:48:27 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> I've just popped a new 2.2-CURRENT snapshot up on the FTP site:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-960226-SNAP/
> 
> All the basics seem to work in this release, though I had to disable
> all the ethernet cards I wasn't using before my test system would come
> up (it hung in the ep0 driver probe).  It also seems to work without
> the DES distribution, so that problem (from the last snap) would
> appear to be gone.

Things i've been noticing so far on my own SNAP(s):

. /sbin/init and /bin/ed in the `filesys' are the DES versions.  You
  might wanna care for this when releasing it on a CD.

. A friend of mine has been reporting serious troubles with a pppd PPP
  server against IIJPPP clients (the server used to work fine with
  2.1R).  I've temporarily compile-time disabled CCP on his machine to
  get it at least running again.

. root's .cshrc and .profile miss the ``stty erase ^h''.  Alternat-
  ively, we should modify the VT initialization in syscons to enter
  the character emitted when hitting the <--- key as the default erase
  character into the termios structure.  This would perhaps be the
  principle of least surprise: people who've been changing their
  keymap to use ^? for this character won't notice the change.

. We need a compat2x distribution, and this one must be offered for
  installation when it comes to XFree86(tm).  libc.so.2.2 must be in
  it.

. Using the fixit floppy from any recent installation floppy silently
  resets the machine after the called program has been paged in from
  the (fixit) floppy.  Using a 2.1R installation floppy instead works
  (with same fixit).

. The installation floppy seems to miss allot of documentation that
  used to be there.

Further, using the latest XFree86 betas against a -current system
shows strange effects.  Running the server with the (new) Xkb
extension enabled immediately freezes the machine after the first
couple of X clients popped up.  Running without the extension only
seldom freezes, but i can give a good bet in that ~ 50 % of all
attempts to login my notebook via PPP (@ 115 kbps on a plain 16450
UART) would freeze it, too.  I'm not yet sure whether to blame XFree86
or FreeBSD for these effects.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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