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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Kernel config questions
Date: 13 Jul 1994 07:42:13 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <Cst70K.7Fs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) writes:
>A couple of questions regarding (apparently) undocumented kernel optiosn in
>FreeBSD 1.1.5 :
>1) One of the 1.1.5 changes was to include a better math emulation,
> according to the WHATS_NEW file. This file also says that it
> defaults to the old emulation. How does one toggle the new stuff
> on?
Change the MATH_EMULATE option to :
options "GPL_MATH_EMULATE"
>2) When my X server, XF86_S3, starts up, right after the bit where it
> tells you the modes its using, how it's caching stuff, etc, it says
> something about "not using MIT_SHA extensions, not supported in
> kernel". What are these extensions, and if they're useful, how does
> one enable them?
Add the following to your kernel config:
options SYSVSHM
These options should all be documented in
/sys/doc/options.doc (It appears that SYSVSHM is while GPL_MATH_EMULATE
isn't).
Geoff.
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