Hi, On 5/31/08, Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may sound wierd but let me explain why. > > On last may/26, I added a Sound Blaster Live to my machine and I wanted to > activate the midi interface of the emu10kx driver. I know there were some > memory and timming problems but I wanted to experiment. So I did a csup to > 7_CURRENT (which is the tag I always use) then edited emu10kx to coment out > the #if 0 that excludes the midi code. I took the oportunity to coment the > drivers I did not need to make the kernel smaller. Recompiled and loaded > emu10kx from loader.conf. the Kernel crashed right after the acpi_hpet > driver load. But by loading emu10kx later, there was no crash and SB board > worked fine. > > A hunch told me to save kernel.old so I moved it to kernel.good which is: > FreeBSD lobo 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Thu May 22 18:32:28 BRT 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LOBO i386 > > After that I went on to make some DVD backups with k3b which ALWAYS worked > fine and now, after this upgrade, k3b keeps crashing without finishing. > Software and device buffers usage behaved erratically, and even if it doesn't > crash, it stops in around 30% with a write error. I lost a few DVDs, since I > suspected the DVD+RW may have had something to do with the problem. I > recompiled k3b (and the other ports around it) but results were the same. > > Anyway, after several unsuccessful attempts to correct the problem by > removing/re-adding kernel drivers, recompiles and even removing the SB board, > I decided to move /boot/kernel to kernel.new, and copied kernel.good to > kernel and voilá ! Everything went back to normal and worked fine! > > What I want to do is to make a copy of my current /src/sys, revert it back to > what it was in may/22 (kernel.good) and compare it with the current /src/sys > to see what changed that provoked this behavior. I suspect of ata and memory > handling changes but it's just a guess. I'd have to have both sources to > compare. > > So my question is: How can I get my /src/sys back to what it was in may/22? > can this be done?
You could use the 'date=' option in your stable-supfile: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 date=20080522000000 man 1 csup for more details Hope this helps Regards. > sorry for the long post and thanks > -- > Mario Lobo > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"