From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 23:13:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA08472 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de ([141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08460 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA02584 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:12:52 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA03372 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:13:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id OAA01097 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:11:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603021311.OAA01097@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-960226-SNAP now on ftp.freebsd.org To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 14:11:26 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <13453.825450507@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 27, 96 11:48:27 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)