3.1.5 public test version

[Ben Gras]

Dear All,

We've put together a pre-release of 3.1.5, soon to be an official
3.1.5 release. You are all invited to test it heavily on all available
hardware and emulators :-).

Known problems:
- lance is quirky under vmware (service refresh is a workaround)
- virtualbox in software emulation mode doesn't work

Developments are listed on http://wiki.minix3.org/en/MinixReleases .
One feature that isn't mentioned there is ATAPI DMA, because it
doesn't seem to make a performance difference (although CPU
utilization is much lower), and it's not been tested that well. Say
'atapi_dma=1' in the boot monitor to test it.

Grab the .iso from the download page, or this direct link:
http://www.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_5-pre_ide_r5547.iso

Enjoy and reports of success and disappointment are welcome :-)

[Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim]

> We've put together a pre-release of 3.1.5, soon to be an official
> 3.1.5 release. You are all invited to test it heavily on all available
> hardware and emulators :-).

what is/will happen to 3.1.4?

--
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim.

[Ben Gras]

On Oct 21, 3:18 pm, "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rahmatm.samik-

ibra...@vlsm.org> wrote:
> > We've put together a pre-release of 3.1.5, soon to be an official
> > 3.1.5 release. You are all invited to test it heavily on all available
> > hardware and emulators :-).
>
> what is/will happen to 3.1.4?

Yeah, the 3.1.4 release got superseded by reality - it needed quite
some fixing, and in the meantime so many fixes and features were done
we've decided to call it 3.1.5.

[Evgeniy Ivanov]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Ben Gras <be...@few.vu.nl> wrote:

Dear All,

We've put together a pre-release of 3.1.5, soon to be an official
3.1.5 release. You are all invited to test it heavily on all available
hardware and emulators :-).

Cute! Well down, my congrats :)
 

Known problems:
 - lance is quirky under vmware (service refresh is a workaround)
 - virtualbox in software emulation mode doesn't work

Developments are listed on http://wiki.minix3.org/en/MinixReleases .

Is it an already frozen changelist or will you also include FP hardware support too? 

--
Evgeniy Ivanov

[Ben Gras]

> > Developments are listed onhttp://wiki.minix3.org/en/MinixReleases.

>
> Is it an already frozen changelist or will you also include FP hardware
> support too?

Sorry, FPU won't make it for 3.1.5 itself, partly because we want to
translate all the assembly from ack to gnu. But we certainly want your
FPU changes, so it'll go in soon afterwards, perhaps for a 3.1.5a.

[Roman Ignatov]

After installing package openssh and rebooting computer:

ssh Generating SSH2 host key: do_copy: got reguest from 36627 (source
36652, seg 1, destination 36627, seg1)

Check it.

--
Roman Ignatov
http://www.minix3.ru

[Roman Ignatov]

I'm try porting xpdf and script "configure" check Xorg:

checking for X...VM::pagafault:SIGSEGV 1498926 bad addr err 0x6 nopage
write cpp 1498926 0x5834 0x53b3 ...
PM: coredump signal 11 for 2626/cpp

Use: MINIX 3.1.5 r-5547

[tota]

> Grab the .iso from the download page, or this direct link:http://www.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_5-pre_ide_r5547.iso

How download it from torrent or ftp? It is possible?

Thanks.

Tota

[Ben Gras]

On Oct 22, 8:05 am, Roman Ignatov <igna...@minix3.ru> wrote:
> After installing package openssh and rebooting computer:
>
> ssh Generating SSH2 host key: do_copy: got reguest from 36627 (source
> 36652, seg 1, destination 36627, seg1)
>
> Check it.

Thanks for your report Roman ;-)

I'm pretty sure that message is an artifact of shared memory being
used, did you perhaps install postgres too which was started around
that time?

Functionality-wise, it's a harmless message. The message means
"someone should be using safecopy instead." Which is true but mostly
harmless.

[Ben Gras]

Yes, cpp segfaults when trying to build X. That's a known problem and
we should debug it.

[Ben Gras]

On Oct 22, 12:24 pm, tota <totali...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> > Grab the .iso from the download page, or this direct link:http://www.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_5-pre_ide_r5547.iso
>
> How download it from torrent or ftp? It is possible?

Not curently. Perhaps someone would like to start a bittorrent tracker
for it..? Assuming it's so wildly popular of course. I've updated the
download page with the sha1 so you can verify it's the same file. (The
sha1 is 40dba99ca40c827024330e0f9c80ee8e4256be21.)

[Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim]

> Enjoy and reports of success and disappointment are welcome :-)

* Not all ISO images are compressed with bzip2.
* Using SHA1 in a MD5 table is confusing.
* I wish that the current source should be:
*** compressed with bzip2
*** named something like "minix-src-5552.tar.bz2"
*** placed in a directory like "src-5552/" instead of "src/"
*** added with a README file that informs the build
number (example 5552).

regards,

--
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim.

[Roman Ignatov]

Problem in MINIX 3.1.5 r-5547:

Source (example fltk, jwm and so on) - tar read error.

best regards,
Roman

[Fernando del Valle]

> Enjoy and reports of success and disappointment are welcome :-)

Thanks for this release. It solved a problem I had compiling VM with
gcc: minix_unmap_zero was not on gcc's crtso.o. I was trying to
recompile gcc but this release comes with that already solved.

[Archimedes Gaviola]

> Enjoy and reports of success and disappointment are welcome :-)

Thanks for this release! I have just tested OSS were it works great on
my PC with Creative Sound Blaster Live! PCI sound card
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster#Sound_Blaster_Live.21_.28Original.29.
The sound card was detected using 'soundon' and output's audio with
'osstest' playback.

# /usr/sbin/soundon

# tail -f /var/log/messages
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: Sound on
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: Trying to detect device:
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: vendor: 0x1102, device: 0x2
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: name: no name
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: slot name: 2.10.0
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: base address: 0x1840
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: irq: 5
Oct 27 00:01:45 seamewe kernel: OSS: Detected device: 0x1102, 0x2
using module oss_sblive

# /usr/bin/osstest -V
Sound subsystem and version: OSS (0x00040100)
Platform: Minix/i686 3 1.5

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm0 (audio engine 0): SB Live main
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47921.00 Hz (-0.16%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm1 (audio engine 1): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm2 (audio engine 2): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm3 (audio engine 3): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm4 (audio engine 4): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm5 (audio engine 5): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm6 (audio engine 6): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm7 (audio engine 7): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47591.00 Hz (-0.85%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm8 (audio engine 8): SB Live main (vmix)
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47630.00 Hz (-0.77%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm9 (audio engine 9): SB Live front out
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47944.00 Hz (-0.12%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm10 (audio engine 10): SB Live side out
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47929.00 Hz (-0.15%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm11 (audio engine 11): SB Live center/lfe out
- Performing audio playback test...
<left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47960.00 Hz (-0.08%)
>
/dev/oss_sblive0_pcm12 (audio engine 12): SB Live 5.1 output device
- Skipping multi channel device

*** All tests completed OK ***

Regards,
Archimedes

[AntoineLeca]

Congrats for the achievement.

On 22 oct, 13:20, Ben Gras wrote:
> I've updated the download page with the sha1 so you can verify it's the same file.
> (The sha1 is 40dba99ca40c827024330e0f9c80ee8e4256be21.)

Well, then you should touch a bit the page... coz' you put it in the
MD5 column!

I downloaded it, the SHA1 hash matches and I got MD5 hash as
608cc6da11c338d6fe870e6ad5b7af20.


Antoine

[Ben Gras]

On Oct 23, 5:47 am, Roman Ignatov <igna...@minix3.ru> wrote:
> Problem in MINIX3.1.5r-5547:

>
> Source (example fltk, jwm and so on) - tar read error.

Right. That was a mistake that happened during the packaging of this
release. Fixed in the next one, thanks :)

[Ben Gras]

> > I've updated the download page with the sha1 so you can verify it's the same file.
> > (The sha1 is 40dba99ca40c827024330e0f9c80ee8e4256be21.)
>
> Well, then you should touch a bit the page... coz' you put it in the
> MD5 column!

Oops. So I have. Silly of me. Updated now.

[Roman Ignatov]

Hi,

In release 3.1.5 not packages from www.minix3.org/software/ :

1. antiword-0.35 - a free MS Word document reader
2. autoconf-2.60 - Autoconf set of automatic configuration tools
3. bitlbee-1.0.3 - An IRC to other chat networks gateway
4. dillo-2.1.2b - browser
5. glib-2.10.0 - GNU programming utility library
6. libungif-4.1.3 - this library for working GIF images
7. lzo-1.08 - LZO is a portable lossless data compression library
8. lzop-1.01 - fast compression program
9. nasm-0.98.38 - flexible assembler, support for many output formats
10. nedit-5.5 - Notepad-style text editor for X
11. nrg2iso-0.2 - Extracts ISO9660 data from Nero ".nrg" files
12. pcre-4.5 - perl compatible regular expressions
13. picasm112c - PIC assembler
14. pscan-1.1 - scans C files for common bugs
15. rman-3.2 - PolyglotMan Reverse compile man pages
16. robodoc-4.0.18 - A source code documentation tool
17. sudo-1.7.2p1 - Allows programs to run with permissions of another
user
...
and others packages. Why?

Where to send new porting packages?
mc, mutt, videogen, ... - it packages be announced here.

Roman