SamMaEl wrote:
> 
> 	I've had some SERIOUS problems in the past few days with my NetBSD
> system, and its gotten to the point where I think I am just going to
> backup some critical files and config stuff and just reinstall everything.
> My LATEST rash of misfortune came when I tried to compile a kernel for my
> Q630 to test a patch Michael Zucca made for me of grf_iv.c (hopefully a
> fix for the Valkyrie internal video!! *cheer*) I did a make depend && make
> all in /sys/arch/mac68k/compile/BRAHMS before I went to work (after a make
> clean of course, since it was a new sys tarball I was compiling from, plus
> the grf_iv.c patch) and it died a couple times over ;-) I don't remember
> the errors specifically, but they were not errors you would get normally I
> am sure. And, alot of missing include files, etc. I tried reinstalling the
> comp.tgz set and still got the errors. I've also tried reinstalling the
> sys tarball and STILL got the errors...

Wait a minute, are you trying to compile -current with a 1.3 system?  In
all likelihood, that's going to cause quite a few problems.  You'll need
to download a new config and compile it first, and then make sure that you
have the newest config files (e.g. GENERIC, et al.) before you try to
compile.

As for the errors you got not being "normal", don't be so sure.  If you're
going to run -current, you really need to subscribe to current-users to
find out all the wonderful issues involved.  What exactly are these
errors, and which version of comp.tgz and sys.tgz are you using?
 
> 	Lastly, I found a guy who is going to sell me his Q900 for pretty
> cheap... what is the current state on this machine? (I'm having trouble
> with Netscape, and my lynx on my NetBSD is also suffering from my
> file-system woes, or I would look it up on the machine-status page myself
> ;-)) 

It's still fairly non-functional at the moment, I believe.  Both of the
Q900 and Q950 use the IOP's for ADB and serial port functionality.  While
the serial ports might work, the ADB definitely doesn't.  In addition,
there might be some issues with the dual SCSI bus on these machines.  I
suppose you might be able to get a headless net-booting machine out of it,
but it wouldn't probably be very useful right now.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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