On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:57:02 +0700 (NOVST)
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>> > With a July 18, 2001 sources, it seems like the kernel hands at
> >>> >the entropy harvesting stage.... ctrl-t shows:
>
> >>> Also (again, for me) "sysctl -N -a" outputs a (non-terminating) stream of
> >>> ...
>
> > I have some kind of "workaround" (see the patch).
> >In my config without this patch 'sysctl -a' hungs at net.inet.accf
> >and with this patch it successfully run up to the end.
> >I can not see what is wrong with the lines disabled by the patch.
>
>
> After building today's -CURRENT OK (and observing that the behavior was
> still the same for my custom kernel), I tried building a GENERIC kernel.
> Much to my surprise (and different from my experience on 06 July --
> last time I had built a GENERIC kernel for -CURRENT), that kernel did
> not exhibit the symptoms.
>
> I've now managed to circumvent the problem by:
>
> * Removing the "device pcm" specification in my custom kernel config.
>
> * Adding the lines
>
> snd_pcm_load="YES"
> snd_maestro_load="YES"
>
> to /boot/loader.conf
>
> * Re-building the kernel. (cd /usr/src; make kernel KERNCONF=LAPTOP_30W)
>
> * Re-booting.
>
> It took a few tries to get things quite right, but sound works again;
> thanks to the patch in http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=26854,
> I'm (still) able to use the keyboard Fn+End chord to mute the sound
> during boot (so that process is less disruptive in meetings). (BTW, it
> would be nice to get that tiny little patch in before 4.4-R. Please?)
>
> And yes, Linux emulation still works.
Linux emulation is fine... it seems to be sysctl -a will hang on
different devices from the information we've seen so far. With me, it
hangs when these two are added and everything works fine when these two
are gone.
# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX
# and PSEUDOFS)
options LINPROCFS
options PSEUDOFS
COMPAT_LINUX isn't the problem.
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