Randall Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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