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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 bugs Date: 19 Jul 1994 19:06:22 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 43 Message-ID: <30h87e$fbd@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <30gb6l$cd4@germany.eu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <30gb6l$cd4@germany.eu.net>, Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote: > >Folks, >I have just untarred FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 onto my system. > >I have encountered the following bugs / problems: > >1) the lpt driver (yet again) does not work with my Epson FX-85. It didn't > work in 1.1 beta, and I have lost my copy of the lpa driver I used to use > with 386BSD-0.0 :-( > Has anybody out there got a copy of lpt.c that woks with the FX-85 ? It *should* work. What kind of problems are you having? The lpa driver is now merged into the lpt driver, so you should be able to fall back on it's functionality if needed. Alot of work went into making it work, and it's worked on all the systems tested so far. >2) The CDIOCEJECT ioctl does not work if the drive is still accessed, I think. > Well, I find it a little difficult to do an ioctl to a non-open drive... I don't understand the above. >3) the packages-1.1/xcdplayer keeps dumping core on SIGSEGV I've noticed that as well, not sure if it's a bug in xcdplayer or FreeBSD though. >4) the bootblocks do not work on root filesystems that use 16k/2k blocksize, > even when re-compiled with the appropriate #define in both copies of the > sys/param.h To be honest, I don't think anyone has ever tried it. It could be a BIOS limitation, but if you can find out why it doesn't work we'd be more than glad to hear it. ;-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.