Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 15:57:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, *now* it's End-Of-ALPHA Release Candidate time! Message-ID: <18775.802479478@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 95 23:37:22 %2B0930." <199506061407.XAA11808@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Very well so far. I haven't prodded it _too_ much yet though. Great! > Hopefully you've fixed the /usr permissions booby. Note also that the > XF86_SVGA server you're including has problems with Cirrus chipsets. > I'm not sure whether you've applied the README.late patches to the > tree before rolling it. (I noticed that it's different to the > distribution in /pub/XFree86/ on wcarchive.) The README.late patches were folded in. This is why this one is called "XFree86 3.1.1u1". If you're having problems with Cirrus chips, please contact the XFree86 folks! I'm sure they'll want to know, if it's not already documented (and I don't see any such doc in their README.FreeBSD file). > 2.0 compatability seems spot on - I haven't had any of my extensive > collection of prebuilt applications barf on me, and stability seems > good even under moderate load (4 or 5 consecutive compiles, Xboing, etc) Excellent! I was hoping for some feedback on that. > The docco is pretty good. A little rushed (big surprise 8), but it seems > to cover most of the known bogeys. IIRC, you even mention 3C509's in > there somewhere 8) Are you planning on expanding the << XXX Hints... > line in the hardware.hlp file, or is geometry magic a bad idea right now? I'm waiting for someone to provide the authoritative procedure in words that mere mortals can understand.. :-) I know the docs were rushed, mainly because they all got heaped on ME at the last minute, but I always welcome diffs! Frank Durda has really cleaned up quite a bit of stuff in there and for that I thank him. > I'll be throwing this at a couple of commercial people tomorrow - > hopefully I'll get some feedback more or less straight away. They're > particularly keen to see something that supports the NCR controllers, and > this looks like it fits the bill. Thanks! > You amaze me - if you can write like that while you're zonked, I can > only assume you have a background involving advertising copy 8) Gee, thanks! :) I'm amazed it was even parsible! Truly, at that stage I couldn't even focus on the screen very well after 3 days of no sleep.. Maybe I'll open an agency: "Midnight advertising - Writing ads for the '90s in a state of delerium!" Some of the fortune 500 might think it's hip and give me lots of money! Hmmm. Naw! > (btw. Is it too late to put in an order for a low-numbered limited-edition > 2.0.5 jordan-wilted-over-the-keyboard picture disk? If Peter Norton > can do the unwashed pink shirt, I'm sure we can do you in shorts and > sandals 8) I think this is starting to look like material for -chat, better set the Reply-To... :-) A limited picture? Hmmm. Well, for one, I'm afraid I'm a jeans-and-tee type so you wouldn't get the shorts, sandals or glasses (I'm not Peter :-). What's you'd get would be a picture of a toussled, aging hacker with 3 days stuble on his face and pupils the size of pin-pricks from caffeine abuse.. :-) Jordan
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