Hello, I just upgraded to -current today to get a couple of features including devfs working. In the process I have run into a few questions (mainly things to do with the fact that up until a few days ago I was only using linux 2.4.x):
1) Will either the in kernel or oss sound driver for an SBLive! in FreeBSD be updated to allow multiple accesses to /dev/dsp at the same time and time in the near future? I know that the oss driver have /dev/dsp1..7 or so but they still seem to not like having multiple accesses to any of them at the same time. In linux both the oss/free and alsa drivers fully supported playing multiple (I know I had tried up to six at a time before) streams to /dev/dsp concurrently. 2) Will frame buffers for eithe VESA or more specifically radeon be added and/or documented any time soon to use a frame buffer at a reasonable resolution for the virtual consoles? 3) Will USB keyboards work as the system console keyboard any time soon, right now I can't seem to get my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard to work even though it shows up in dmesg. 4) Is there anyone actively maintaining dri for XFree86 on FreeBSD, I couldn't get my Radeon 7500 to work with dri using a fresh pull of XFree86 CVS, so I ended up making a trivial patch to allow my Radeon to be detected and set up. But this led me to notice that there have been one or two performance and lock up related changes to the linux kernel dri code and wondered whether these fixes would ever make it to FreeBSD? 5) In -current would it be possible to have a few command line switches added to certain userland utilities? I noticed -h made it into `ls` now, but `cp` still doesn't have -a or -x which I used to use all the time in Linux. I know -a isn't a big deal but - x was definitely nice from time to time. `date` having a --date option to tell you when a specified date is in Linux is also very nice. Just some thoughts. 6) I have found the pages for hardware monitoring support in the FreeBSD kernel and have a few questions about it: Will the updated code which supports newer AMD and VIA monitoring chips be rolled into -current soon? And if so what userland utility does one use in FreeBSD to pull values from the driver like lm-sensors does for Linux? Thanks if anyone can help me figure out answers to any of the above questions or provide feedback on any of my comments. So far I love FreeBSD and find it much more efficient and intuitive than Linux, keep up the good work. Please Cc: me as I am not on this list yet. Jordan Breeding To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
