2001-Jul-19

I've noticed in the past that when I use ps2pdf, the resulting PDF is displayed with all dots (nothing readable). Then I read a posting about it this morning, so I decided to look at it again. I tried using "-dEmbedAllFonts=false" and some other options, but they didn't help. Then I read a usenet posting that said: "In my experience `gv' does a much better job of rendering PDFs than does `xpdf'." And gv worked for me.

Started learning more about rndctl(8). "rndctl -l" showed zero bits for net (ne0) and my cd0 disk (which rcd0d being used). (So it seems like it also isn't using the cd0 disk event timing information -- or at least it isn't displaying it.) Then I enabled collection of timing information and entropy estimation with "rndctl -c -t net" and "rndctl -e -t net". And a little later, I started receiving data:

ne0                     558 net  estimate, collect

And then:

ne0                    1838 net  estimate, collect

Now to figure out why my cd0 disk still shows 0 bits ...