Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:18:19 -0600 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081211121819.17qwm4xctzdwwgc88@intranet.casasponti.net> In-Reply-To: <1229008984.2749.74.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211071914.278ae942@scorpio> <20081211133632.114d77c7.freebsd@edvax.de> <1229002806.2749.51.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <20081211155500.H1327@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1229008984.2749.74.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be>
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Quoting Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>: > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> > - on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly >> > things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling >> > ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some >> > problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example. >> >> i don't have. i use only atapicam+cd driver, no acd. > > Of course I tried atapicam too (I even removed acd totally from the > kernel), but it doesn't resolve the problem(s) I assume that you made the recommended links en /etc/devfs.conf etc. =20 so I won't go into it but it has been literally years that I haven't =20 had an issue burning cd's or dvd's be it music, movies, OS's built =20 here or elsewhere. I've just recently started trusting all my burning =20 to k3b because I like the music for success after finishing the burn. ;) It works on all my different machines, even a cheapy acer laptop with dvdrw. As I said, I've not seen it NOT work on any and all cheap hardware in =20 a long, long time. I guess maybe I'm just lucky. ed P.S. The only thing that doesn't work on my cheapy laptop is the =20 crystal eye webcam but I think that even the linux crowd is having =20 issues with it plus I'm too old to want to send my video. > >> >> > - my mouse (a Logitec MX 300, USB) is still undetected at boot. Every >> > time I have to unplug/plug it after boot. Not a big deal I admit, but >> > boring. >> > - USB mass storage plug/unplug sometimes causes system panic. I know >> >> never got such thing, except when i forgot to unmount >> > > "except when i forgot to unmount" -> yep, the problem lies here, it's so > natural to just unplug an USB device > >> > that this is a well known bug that require some rearchitecting and that >> > a proper umount has always been the way to umount a drive, but, >> > honestly, you cannot seriously convince someone to use FreeBSD with >> > things like this ... >> > - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... i= s >> > just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but >> > it's being resolved I think). Of course there are packages, but it's fa= r >> > less friendly to use (and manage) than apt-get/dpkg. >> >> you may pkg_add from ftp repository > > of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade > > -- > Julien Cigar > Belgian Biodiversity Platform > http://www.biodiversity.be > Universit=C3=A9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) > Campus de la Plaine CP 257 > B=C3=A2timent NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) > Boulevard du Triomphe, entr=C3=A9e ULB 2 > B-1050 Bruxelles > Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be > @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 > Tel : 02 650 57 52 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >
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