5.2.1-RC issues: good and bad

[Robin Schoonover]

APIC didn't like me in 5.2, and it still doesn't like me in 5.2.1 (vr0
complains of watchdog timeout and fails to work) I've turned it off in the
bios, so freebsd doesn't get to use that.  (Which is okay, I guess?)

Fortunately, X works again in 5.2.1.  With 5.2, nv AND nvidia driver were
having trouble giving me a resolution higher than 640x480.  (I haven't
heard/seen any changes that would have fixed this, but somehow it works
again...)

Two things are giving me i386_set_ldt warnings:
 o nvidia's drivers (XFree86)
 o wine (completely broken until portupgrade)
I portupgraded wine, and I got no more warnings for that (yes, I cheated
and installed it even with the broken plist...).  I have a smallish
question: is the i386_set_ldt warning because of switch to libkse as the
default threads library?  (see next paragraph for my chatter about that)

(It appears to me that this warning was added ahead of the anticipated
switch over, but does not appear to be switched over in 5.2.1-RC.  I am
getting this from the fact that UPDATING does not mention it in
5.2.1-RC, and nvidia drivers are still working fine).

I had a few other problems, but they weren't really FreeBSD specific
problems (things like bios's boot virus checker, and my .blackboxrc file
reset).  Bonus points for 5.2.1, since 5.2.1-RC has definately been
smoother than 5.2R was for me.

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Robin Schoonover (aka End)
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