Re: netbsd1.3 alpha

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%arresum.inka.de@localhost>]

On Fri Nov 14 06:54:59 1997, marmoset wrote:
> 
> 
> First of all, thanks for all the hard work on this and all past netbsd
> releases, it's appreciated by everyone.  I had a couple questions/comments
> about the snapshot.
> 
> First of all, I was only able to get the install to work by doing a minor hack
> to install.md, changing the mount flags to -oro instead of -ro, I dunno if
> that is particular to my configuration, but I thought I'd mention it in case
> anyone else was having problems mounting amigados drives to extract the
> snapshot.

Ups. I fixed that problem, but you are not correct with your fix, because
install.sub use $md_native_fsopts for '-o $md_native_fsopts', so
it don't need the '-' here. I think that was a mistake when Ignatios
converted the atari miniroot install.md to the amiga (the atari uses
-G,ro).

> Second, I was kinda hoping that the gvp i/o device would be supported in this,
> but it doesn't appear to be, although there's various gio things in the
> -current source (my troubles getting that working are a whole 'nother story ;)
> ).  Can anyone shed any light on this?  Netbsd isn't nearly as exciting
> without the net part. :)

I think Ignatios can say something about this driver.

> I was messing around with x, and got everything going and it was working fine,
> but then I mounted an ez135 drive, and the whole screen got corrupted and was
> a weird "random pixels placed over the current screen" kinda thing, when I
> typed things in an xterm, I could see things moving in an   XOR sorta way, but
> not much changed.  Any ideas on that?

Yes, there was a console output. The output goes to the framebuffer address
where the kernel thinks it outputs to the console, but since the X11 frame
buffer is at the same address you only see garbage on your screen.
You can solve this problem when you start xconsole to see the console output
on a special xterm window.

> On a side note, how do you quit X?  I just do a shutdown -r ; reboot, but
> that's less than desirable. :)

Use a X menue to quit X11. Move the mouse on a place on your screen where
you have nothing behind it (no xterm or other window) and then press and
hold the left mouse button. There should be now a menue entry where you can
leave your window manage. This should quit X11.
Another brutal force method is to press CTRL-LALT-BACKSPACE to KILL X11.
You normally shouldn't do this.

Bernd