On 01-Apr-2001 Jesse Gross wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am running FreeBSD 4.2-Stable, and I am having a problem with the refresh
> rate of X. The mouse jumps around and everything takes a very long time for
> anything to happen. I saw the kernel patch at
> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/hardware.html#PSMER
On 31-Mar-2001 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, j mckitrick
> writes:
>>
>> cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>> /usr/sbin/config MARS
>> cd ../../compile/MARS
>> make depend && make && make install
>>
>> but now it is taking WAY longer than it used to.
>>
I've pulled down the RC2 candidate, and have it on CD on one machine,
which I'm then using as the source of an FTP install to another machine
(which has a non-functional CDROM, natch).
INSTALL.TXT in the root of the release says
[...]
1.1 Installing from a network CDROM
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 1:25 PM
To: David W. Chapman Jr.
Cc: Jason T. Luttgens; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network performance question
> > FreeBSD kinda disappointed me. It gets ~1000 interface errors on about
> > 5
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jason T. Luttgens wrote:
> packets/second. I have another computer that is multi-boot where I do a
> tcpdump to listen to the packets on the network and write them to a file
> (tcpdump -n -w test)
...
> Now maybe this method of testing is not proper, or there is something on
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Jason T. Luttgens wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: David W. Chapman Jr.
> Cc: Jason T. Luttgens; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Network performance question
>
As a follow up, I spoke too soon when I said I was able to installworld
after making changes to Makefile.tty. At least 2 or 3 more times did
installworld fail, with various 'not found' type errors when looking for
binaries such as mkdir and pod2man. Each time I was able to edit the
appropria
Man, people are still reading those instructions? :-)
I agree that they're wrong but I'm about to go off the air for 4 days
in about 10 minutes here so I can't fix them myself. If anyone would
care to do the honors, I'd appreciate it.
- Jordan
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wit
>> Hmmso the Linux 2.4.3 kernel is somehow accessing the hardware as to
not
>> cause hardware failures then?
>
>That's not it at all. Remember, FreeBSD and Linux can grab packets just
>as fast as they come into the interface... the processor is many times
>faster than the network card.
>
>This
