From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 22 08:25:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA07069 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jan 1995 08:25:11 -0800 Received: from hudson.lm.com (hudson.lm.com [192.231.221.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA07063 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 1995 08:25:09 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by hudson.lm.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA04443 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 22 Jan 1995 11:25:30 -0500 Path: hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: mail.freebsd-questions Subject: Questions; Observations Date: 22 Jan 1995 11:25:20 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3fu0tg$q6j@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com Apparently-To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, I've got a hunka-hunka burning questions. Most of them are fairly non-critical, but I'll feel a hell of a lot better if I can get some answers. First, my earlier problems with spontaneous reboots turned out to be hardware related; a swapped motherboard made the difference. Thanks to everyone who tried to help. First: my newest kernel will sometimes not allow me to type anything after the device probe. I suspect this may be due to the fact that I compiled in the pms0 support, and used ALLOW_CONFLICT_IOADDR. Is this a known problem? I'm using a Gateway and a Microsoft ps/2 mouse, and I'm aware that these mice are apparently not the most standard of hardware. If it is the mouse, is there anything I can do to alleviate the situation, other than switching to a serial mouse? Second, here's a tip to budding FreeBSD experimenters: whatever you do, DON'T get rid of COMPAT_43 when compiling your new kernel. Strange and not-too-wonderful things will happen. Third, is there a written list of changes since 2.0-R? I'd like to know if it's worth it to try to upgrade to the more recent snapshot. Lastly, I get about 10,000 fewer Dhrystones/second on my FreeBSD system than on the same machine under NetBSD or BSDI. While I know this is a meaningless number, anyone have any guesses as to why this is? Thanks, -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb