newpcm and RealPlayer woes

2000-07-11 Thread Lee Cremeans
I've been using the newpcm drivers for some time, and they seem to work with most things, but I've noticed some problems, specifically with the RealPlayer 7 Beta for linux. The sound seems to jump at the beginning of a stream, leaving it at least 3-4 seconds behind the counter and any video conten

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target tomake your kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:29 PM +0200 2000/7/11, Peter van Heusden wrote: > My only (minor) concern, from a useability point of view, is that there is > no default BUILDKERNEL value - shouldn't it default to GENERIC if nothing > else is specified? That way you won't actually be able to do a > 'buildkernel' withou

Re: why new buildkernel (was HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel'..."

2000-07-11 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Wyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Francisco Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Vivek Khera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 3:36 AM Subject: Re: why new buildkernel (was HEADS UP! Always

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >Well, I didn't see you very active with the 20-odd people who posted the >same build error this time around. And I think it makes much more sense to >teach people to use a tool which won't have dependency problems in the >first place than to catch them a

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "WL" == Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WL> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vivek Khera writes: WL> : So if I don't have a "buildworld" /usr/obj tree sitting around, I am WL> : not supported to build a new kernel for my existing system, say, to WL> : add a new SCSI controller to a se

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yer kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Greg Lehey wrote: > > 3. It gives the kernel a different name. > Suppose you happen to have a kernel name like dev or etc. You would have problems then. :-) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target tomake yer kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0400 2000/7/11, Vivek Khera wrote: > So the final result of the discussion seems to be: > > 1) after upgrading sources (ie, make buildworld of any sort) use "make > buildkernel" to build your kernel > > 2) any other times, you can use the traditional build process > > Correct

Re: newpcm and RealPlayer woes

2000-07-11 Thread Matt Heckaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Lee Cremeans wrote: : : I've been using the newpcm drivers for some time, and they seem to work with : most things, but I've noticed some problems, specifically with the : RealPlayer 7 Beta for linux. The sound seems to jump at t

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KK> support after the fact, and so people should be using the buildkernel KK> target if they want their kernel builds to work across upgrades. Which is a very different claim than saying you should *always* use buildkernel, and no other met

Re: newpcm and RealPlayer woes

2000-07-11 Thread Peter Radcliffe
Matt Heckaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably said: > I do not have any of the 'weird sound' problem though. I did through XMMS > but their new version fixed that out. Similar problems occured with things > that used certain mixers. I believe this was an issue of the *program* not > the OS. Either wa

Re: buildkernel

2000-07-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
I think the purpose is to cause the kernel builds and installs to work right. I would HOPE everyone could agree on that as a "purpose." Some people have made suggestions such as, "if you're using the same system, (ie. the -RELEASE people), don't require a whole buildowrld..." Why not accept th

NIS/YP compatibility

2000-07-11 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
[A -questions matter. BCC'd to -stable to gain the input of the many on that list who run FreeBSD in an enterprise situation. Please, if you reply on -questions CC me as I have trouble sifting through all of my -questions mailbox] I'm running into some NIS/YP issues which I would like the commu

Bad sound output, AudioPCI ES1371, 4.0-STABLE

2000-07-11 Thread Joseph Scott
I have an AudioPCI ES1371 sound card. From dmesg & sndstat : --- > dmesg|grep pcm pcm0: port 0xb400-0xb43f irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0 --- > cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Jul 10 2000 17:31:19 Installed devices: pcm0: at io 0xb400 irq 5 (1p/1r channels duplex) ---

problems building kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Mike O'Dell
is anyone else more than a little concerned that the people who ostensibly understand all the details can't agree as to how to do what and when?? and this is supposed to be STABLE??? give us a break, guys. you don't go changing how a kernel gets built in a release called STABLE. and if you did