Repost of old mail now that I've made my ISP register their mail
relays (which took three months for them to understand!).
I know this is ancient but being in the archives may help someone.
It was a kernel problem.
I made a new kernel from sources of about 8 hours ago and the problem
has dissa
It may not be FP itself.
In fact I have seen some other strange graphic corruption at home
when running xplanet in the background and xanim. When the planet
turns, the top 20 or so rows of the root window get corrupted with
some of the image of the currently playing animation in xanim.
I haven
"-O -pipe" is all I use for kernel and world builds.
The kernel config file from my work box is attached.
I have never built gcc from ports.
I always use "config -r" when building kernels.
I dont use modules as I have everything I need in my kernel
including COMPAT_LINUX.
And as I said before
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > > Three issues:
> > > - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
>
> I don't have a -current machine I want to delete al
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > Three issues:
> > - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
I don't have a -current machine I want to delete all ports from, but I
have a -current from yesterday, I compil
David,
I emailed my details on what I have done on two machines that are
exhibiting this problem. Because these machines are different in
their hardware and have not expressed the problem in the past, I
dont think its a hardware issue.
Before the new binutils both machines did not have this pro
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:24:24AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Has anyone tried the specific instructions I gave to reproduce
> the problem ?
These instructions do things at too high a level.
> i.e.:
>
> - make world
> - making and installing a new kernel
> - mergemaster
> - reboot
Has anyone tried the specific instructions I gave to reproduce
the problem ?
i.e.:
- make world
- making and installing a new kernel
- mergemaster
- reboot
- deletion of ALL installed ports
- recompile of every essential port (inc XFree 3.3.6)
Then: Build xaos from ports (/usr/port
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Three issues:
> - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly:
> - backward compatibility:
> - stability:
Are others seeing these issues?
> These issues make me think that the new binutils is not yet ready
> for -STABLE.
It
