Re: downgrading /sys/src
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=2008052200 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]
downgrading /sys/src
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? 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]
Re: downgrading /sys/src
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=2008052200 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]
