> I get get a shrieking beep every time consistently now that I recompiled 
> with newer sources (tarballs from last week). I dont do anything in MacOS 
> but click on the booter.
> 
> I run a IIvx and to tell the truth this beep is not really worse then the 
> one I used to get. Even since I ran BSD (since IIvx was supported with 
> it's own console) the beep I got was very faint and like the sound you 
> get when you plug headphones in or out of a stereo. Now for the first 
> time, it's loud and a bit more like a "real" beep except that it's 
> shrieking (chalk sound).
> 
> Is either of these the normal behaviour?

I don't know if this is "normal" but Scott has been doing a lot of work 
on the asc (Apple Sound Chip) driver recently, trying to make it a little 
more useful, I think, so these changes may be the reason why this strange 
behaviour is occurring.  I'll cc this to Scott just in case he knows a 
little more about it...

> I just decided to try and follow -current and since this involves a lot 
> of compiles, I was wondering what kind of compile time people are 
> getting. On my IIvx with 8Mb and a "recent" HD it took me 5h15 wall clock 
> time to compile a generic kernel from scratch. Is this on par with you 
> guys? How much does more memory speed it up etc...

I've got 28 MB or RAM and an accelerated (50MHz with no external cache) 
IIci, it takes between 2.5 and 3 hours to do the full config, make depend 
&& make cycle.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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