Date: 16 Aug 2002 09:47:30 -0400 From: Jim Frost <jimf@frostbytes.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 rl0 and xl0 watchdog timeout problems (and solution) Message-ID: <1029505650.30127.2.camel@icehouse> In-Reply-To: <00cd01c24526$8c6ea350$0301a8c0@prime> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA0VcX9IoJqUaXPS8MjT1PdsKAAAAQ AAAAm0mmX4YL20Ge1GHljvj3wwEAAAAA@computer.org> <1029448514.14968.76.camel@snowball.frostbytes.com> <00cd01c24526$8c6ea350$0301a8c0@prime>
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On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:03, Charles Swiger wrote: > It's not entirely clear that you want to hear that there were easier ways of > installing everything (or some other high-level choice), but there were. > Try performing a custom installation, which lets you select from the > following distribution types: Ahh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! I don't really think that putting the canned configurations in "custom" is the right thing to do (to me that's the opposite of "custom"), but at least it's there. > You should also take a look in /usr/ports. Try building something that has > a lot of dependencies (ie, something you previously had to scour the net to > hunt down a half-dozen libraries that the software expects to use). Yes, ports is /great/. > As for configuring X, FreeBSD uses XFree86 (v4.2.0, IIRC), just like Linux > does. One difference is that many companies have released Linux drivers, > but not *BSD ones, so there is some difference in 3D hardware acceleration > support for OpenGL, but any reasonable video card should implement VESA > modes which will at least be functional under X for normal (2D) stuff. My problem with X was that the configurator locked the system in the middle of the install. That might be a result of me picking the cheapest possible videocard I could find :-). X server support is not really necessary so I can live with that. Thanks for your feedback, jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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