Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:08:54 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback Message-ID: <19990702170854.A2009@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpu2rnw45a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:52:01PM %2B0200 References: <19990626184311.A5290@ipass.net> <xzpu2rnw45a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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|> 3) If I switch the console to 43 or 60 line mode with vidcontrol, "man" and
|> other full-screen progs don't automatically pick up the correct number
|> of lines like they did in 3.0-RELEASE. They assume 25-line mode.
|>
|> vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -f 8x8 cp866-8x8
|> vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 132x43
|> vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv1 132x43
|> vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv2 132x43
|>
|> I have to fiddle with "stty rows" and hand the console the right number.
|
|No, no; just set your TERM variable rigth (cons43 or cons60). You can
|do this in /etc/ttys (replace cons25 with e.g. cons60) if you set
|these videomodes at boot time (with allscreen_flags).
I didn't want to have to do this -- as I didn't have to do it on
3.0-RELEASE. The terminal was smart enough to figure it out.
Kazutaka YOKOTA committed a patch for this last week that fixed it up (in
response to my kern/12420 PR).
|> 11) When copying directory trees between two IDE drives on the PCI
|> bus, the system really dogs down -- emacs takes 15 seconds to come up
|> when normally it takes 1 -- didn't do that on 3.0-RELEASE.
|
|Hmm, are you sure (that it didn't do that before)? Non-DMA IDE drives
|are CPU pigs.
Yes, I'm sure. Oh, these are all DMA IDE drives. I've had them set up
that way since 3.0-971208-SNAP.
|> 12) Why do we see lpt0 probes twice:
|>
|> lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
|> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
|> lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
|> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
|>
|> My kernel config for the new ppbus scheme:
|> device ppc0 at isa? port "0x3BC" tty irq 7
|> device ppc1 at isa? port "0x378" tty
|> controller ppbus0
|> device lpt0 at ppbus?
|> device lpt1 at ppbus?
|
|Why do you have two lpt lines?
On occasion, I've had two parallel ports in one machine.
|I think the lpt driver is autocloning. Remember that lpt isn't a real
|hardware device driver any more, just one of several ways of talking to
|the ppc device.
Hmm. I'm confused. /dev/lpt# is the physical device I point /etc/printcap
printer entries too. So if I hook up two printers, one is lpt0 and the
other is lpt1 AFAIK.
Something is odd, because right now I only have one hardware parallel port
installed.
|> 13) 3.2-RELEASE still locks the system hard when a file system is
|>mismounted, just as 3.0-RELEASE did:
|
|Only for FAT filesystems. FAT sucks.
True, FAT isn't great, but this fatal FreeBSD bug has nothing to do with
FAT sucking.
|> 15) /opt/bin/xanim.2.70.1 +Ze +B +CF4 +Av10 -geometry +100+100 fox.mov
|> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgnumalloc.so.2.0"
|>
|> Something missing from the compat libs. I pulled it off my 3.0-R
|> partition on another disk.
|
|I don't think gnumalloc is meant to be in compat. It should have been
|installed when you installed xanim.
Hmmm. It was on the 3.0-RELEASE CD:
> cat bin.?? | tar -tzf - | grep gnumalloc.so.2
usr/lib/compat/aout/libgnumalloc.so.2.0
So I would have thought it should have been in bindist or a "compat30"
binary distribution on the 3.2-RELEASE CD (since 3.x compatibility seems
more important than 2.x). However, it's not there:
> cat bin.?? | tar -tzf - | grep gnumalloc
|> 16) So, how do I try a splash screen? Nothing in the FAQ or handbook
|> on the CD, and only "pseudo-device splash" in LINT. I've got it
|> in my kernel config, but no splash.
|
|Did you try 'man splash'?
No, I didn't think it'd be that easy :-)
Even after reading it though, I didn't get it going. It says you can run
this from the loader prompt:
load kernel
load -t splash_image_data chuck.bmp
load splash_bmp
You can't (or I couldn't at least). "load kernel" goes off and does just
that, never returning to the loader prompt. So thinking about patching
loader.rc, I followed splash(4)'s directions and tried to consult the
loader.rc(5) man page (to learn what to add where, what not to change,
etc.). But there is no loader.rc man page.
/boot/* sounds low-enough level that I didn't want to risk modifying it
without knowing exactly what I was doing and the potential consequences
(i.e. how much trouble was it going to be to recover from an error). I
still didn't know enough at this point, so I never did get the splash
screen going.
Any tips?
Thanks for the reply,
Randall
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