Date: 22 Jan 1995 11:25:20 -0500 From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Subject: Questions; Observations Message-ID: <3fu0tg$q6j@ivory.lm.com>
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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
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