On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:24:02PM +0200, Technolord wrote:
> Hi.
> I've spent the last days tring to make 2 machines running with 1.4Z.
> I had lots of good feelings (bugfixes, stability), but also some
> problems. Here they are:
> 
> - On a PC with an hercules (I guess that's the cause?) wscons can't
> allocate other screens (cannot allocate memory). Any way around that
> apart installing screen?

I think virtual consoles are oly supported for VGA boards

> - On any PC, screenblank tells cannot attach to wskbd0: device busy or
> something close to that. I'm using the GENERIC kernel (until I find
> where are the sources for 1.4Z!)

Don't know for this one. BTW there should be 1.5_ALPHA snapshots available
soon :)

> - amd.conf(5) man page does not exist :-P

Fixed in 1.5 I believe

> - Is there a way to reduce NFS network accesses to a real minimum
> (havily caching)?

NFS v3 does a good job for this already. What's your server ?

> - Has anyone had luck in using the NFS -current server? It hangs my
> machine when I try to mount it...

I have a 1.4Y NFS server for about 60 machines (it's an alpha).
Could be related to disks or network boards. What's your hardware ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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