[666] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Sun Jan 28 04:24:55 1996
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 04:20:54 EST
After having (and, depending on how you look at it, conquering) numerous
problems, I return to explain it all and perhaps seek some answers.
While running my first successful (?) installation of NetBSD 1.0A, I had many
odd and frustrating machine lockups that nobody was really able to solve,
explain, or even understand. Not knowing any better, I never deleted the core
dump files that were accumulating in my /var/crash/. This caused a
particularly nasty thing to happen one day, when my attachtab was somehow
corrupted during a crash. I had no way of accessing my Athena account, and I
had no way of importing a non-corrupt attachtab because of this.
So I reinstalled, and took the reinstallation opportunity to install release
1.1. Now, something funny happened. "No PC keyboard detected." Yoav took a
look at this and built me another kernel. This one worked--up to a point.
When I configured XF86Config, I set it exactly the same way I'd always set it
when I was running 1.0A. Somehow, it could not run any of the selected video
modes (Cirrus Logic GD5426 card with 1M--I know I'm right about this) and it
punted me back into ttymode. Error messages on the screen showed that for
each video mode it tried, it tried only one frequency: 0khz. (Yes, 0.
Everything I'd told XF86Config ran directly counter to these detections. It
was as if it didn't recognize half of XF86Config.)
So I reinstalled 1.0A. Everything's fine--so far.
--
****************************************************************************
From page 5 of Mandelbrot's *The Fractal Geometry of Nature:
Scientists will (I am sure) be surprised and delighted that quite a
few shapes they had to call grainy, hydralike, in-between, pimply, POCKY,
ramified, seaweedy, strange, tangled, torturous, wiggly, wispy, wrinkled,
and the like, can henceforth be approached in rigorous and vigorous
quantitative fashion.
****************************************************************************
