| 1 | This file lists known problems with this release of FreeBSD |
| 2 | |
| 3 | 'hanging keyboard' |
| 4 | ------------------ |
| 5 | There are still problems with certain machines appearing to 'hang' on |
| 6 | bootup even though a prompt is there. The most common machines that |
| 7 | exhibit these problems are Gateway 2000 machines with PHOENIX bios's but |
| 8 | other machines with PHOENIX bios also exhibit this behavior. |
| 9 | The temporary solution until you can get the distribution |
| 10 | installed on your hard-drive is to 'bounce' on a key like shift or |
| 11 | num-lock (which works well since you can see when the keyboard comes |
| 12 | back to life) until the boot sequence is finished. The keyboard will |
| 13 | work fine for installing FreeBSD onto the hard-drive. |
| 14 | Generally the problems go away at this point, but if it doesn't |
| 15 | you should install a SYSCONS kernel which doesn't experience these |
| 16 | keyboard problems. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | /usr/bin/gdb: |
| 19 | The gdb in the release will not work on shared objects nor will it |
| 20 | work with C++ executables. Please use the gdb in the ports area for |
| 21 | debugging shared and/or C++ code. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c |
| 24 | The 3c509 driver will hang under heavy network loads and take your |
| 25 | machine off network. (Though the machine will continue to run with |
| 26 | no network facilities) |
| 27 | |
| 28 | /sys/i386/isa/syscons.c |
| 29 | This file will not compile correctly with the compiler distributed |
| 30 | in FreeBSD before version 1.1. To compile a FreeBSD 1.1 kernel |
| 31 | with a compiler from before FreeBSD 1.1, you will need to add |
| 32 | the `-D__FreeBSD__' flag to your kernel compiles; e.g., |
| 33 | make CC='cc -D__FreeBSD__' |
| 34 | in /sys/compile/SYSCONS (or substitute the name of your |
| 35 | configuration. Once you upgrade your compilation tools this |
| 36 | will no longer be necessary. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | |
| 39 | $Id: KNOWNBUGS,v 1.3 1994/02/09 06:22:58 wollman Exp $ |