Subject: Re: The NetBSD-0.9a kernel
To: Jesper Nilsson <jesper@lundin.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/1994 19:45:30
On Fri, 22 Apr 94 15:07 CET
jesper@lundin.se (Jesper Nilsson) wrote:
> Some problems with the kernel of NetBSD-0.9a compiled on Apr 16, 23:13
> by cgd@sun-lamp:
>
> My ethernet controller 3C503 8-bit does not get detected
> by the new kernel. OK with NetBSD-0.9 dist. kernel (devicename ed1:)
This isn't really a problem...as I have this problem every time I boot a
'generic' kernel...My second ethernet card (a 3c503) gets reported as an
unknown becuase the jumper settings are different than those spec'd in
the generic kernel. Just reconfig and remake...
>
> A device by name 'ie0' is not present but gives the following bogus
> display:
>
> ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 0
> ie0: can't map 3C507 RAM in high memory
>
> (What is ie0: and all the rest of new ethernet devices? Which one
> is the new 3C509?)
>
> The XFree86-2.0 X_S3 Server is screwed up: Windows does not get filed
> and menues that drop down is just displayed as the frame. Moving the
> mouse in the pull-down menu sometimes makes the menu items apper and
> sometimes the see-thru background just get inverted.
>
> (I'm in the slow process of getting XFree86-2.1 downloaded.)
>
> All of this happens on a i486-DX2 66MHz with 16Mb memory. It is an Intel
> PCI machine with a PCI SPEA/Video7 S3-928 VGA card.
>
> When the video is changed to a WD90C30 with 1Mb the console gets
> srewed up during the boot. As far as I can see it happens when the above
> ie0: starts to display its bougus messages. The lines on the console starts
> in the middle of the screen and lines does not get scrolled the rigth way.
> The console cursor stays in the rigth place thow. But the text is someware
> else one the screen.
>
> The distributed NetBSD-0.9 is OK on the machine. I've even tryed running
> it on a Intel PCI Pentium-66MHz without any hickups. The XFree86-2.0 X_S3
> Server is blazing fast on this baby.
>
> A question about the following note in CHANGES for NetBSD-current:
>
> > changes to support running of Windows executable via Wine. Changes
> > to the kernel activated with "USER_LDT" option. New syscalls
> > are in new architecure specific library - libarch/libi386.
> > (brezak)
>
> What is "Wine"? Do you mean a MS Windows 3.1 emulator or what?
>
> TIA
>
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