Date: 02 Jul 1999 15:52:01 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Feedback Message-ID: <xzpu2rnw45a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Randall Hopper's message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:43:11 -0400" References: <19990626184311.A5290@ipass.net>
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Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> writes: > 1) The graphical console screen saver is very nice! I'll pretend I'm not proud :) > 2) Where's the tcpdump port/package -- missing? Tcpdump is in the base system. No need to install a port or package. > 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). > 4) Arrrg! The Afterstep package has Penguin icons for xterms. > Where's Chuck?! (see attached) Contact the maintainer (cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep && grep MAINTAINER Makefile) > 6) I didn't find a man page for ld.so, despite what man page for ldd says > (this may be an artifact of the missing ld.so in compat22 on the German > FreeBSD CD I downloaded). Methinks this is a known bug that was fixed before the final release (the one that went to the CD press). > 7) wcd0 became acd0 in the kernel config file, but we still mount wcd0c. (?) > Is this an oversight? It's in the default fstab for example. No, it's called acd in the config file to avoid name conflicts, but it uses the same ol' major/minor. > 8) (Nit) Boot-up probes spelling error: > "bt_isa_probe: Probe failled for card at 0x330" I think that's been fixed. > 9) rc.firewall - if firewall_type is a file, it feeds each line in it to > ipfw. Yes, that's what it's meant to do. If you want to use a home-grown script, set firewall_script to something else than /etc/rc.firewall. > 10) There was no ports_update package in the packages dir when I downloaded. > I found a reference to this in DejaNews, and grabbed the /usr/ports/Mk > tree from ftp.freebsd.org. It worked, but what should users really be > doing? Cvsup the ports tree, perhaps? > 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. > 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? 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. > 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. > 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. > 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'? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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