On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:05:24 Dominique Goncalves wrote: > 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 >
Thanks ! that did it !! but the date format should so: date=2008.05.22.00.00.00 I am going to dig in and see if I can find out what happened. -- 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]"