The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus)
isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add
dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf to get them to start
automatically.
We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentioned I kinda stuffed
this question in without any proper log or tty output to support
anything I mentioned which is quite ad-hoc and not recommended on
mailing lists of this caliber unless wanting to irritate the participants.
Just need to clear up my notebooks drive first before setting up the VM
environment to test!
I agree with Adam Vande More's opinion that UFS2 is the way to go on such a
low memory system. UFS2 also works well with large disks (1+ TB) if you tune
the newfs parameters a bit (mainly to shorten the fsck time). With geom(8)
you can do all kinds of mirroring/striping if you're into RAID. With regards
to stability, UFS2 was before the import of ZFS the only filesystem widely
used. It is very well tested, and in my opinion, very stable. In fact, I
can't remember ever having a UFS2 filesystem go bad to the point I couldn't
repair it anymore. If you're expecting lots of power outages, it may be
worthwile to set up journaling using gjournal(8), which will reduce fsck
times considerably, at the cost of reduced streaming write speed (which will
halve unless a dedicated journal disk is used).
I agree also and thank you guys for your opinions! As mentioned I know
UFS1 from Solaris 9 on my SPARC systems and have never had any issues
with it at all.
"Hang on what are these things called slices and this wacky naming
convention I thought disks where labeled hdax or sdax according to the
partition...." :-P sorry internal joke!
That won't be a problem. To illustrate, FreeBSD on a 256MB (i386) machine has
about 211MB memory free just after startup. To be safe you could configure a
large swap, so the system won't kill the memory hogs as soon as it runs out
of memory.
Yeah I reckon large swap also! Usually round 2 or 3 times amount of
memory but for everyday generic use I find about 1.5 - 3 gigs is enough.
This is the good part of static filesystems I find over ZFS is that the
swap space is easily tunable without editing ZFS pools or other.
NFS, BIND, SNMP (bsnmpd) and NTP come with the OS and are installed by
default. Samba can be installed from ports.
Hmm.... I will need a bit of assistance for the ports part as I'm kinda
used to Debian backports through the Apt repos but BSD ports is
something quite different. I'm sure there's plenty of documentation on
the web to find out how to install and implement!
bsnmpd sounds to me more like snmpx from Solaris in terms of that it is
different from opensnmpd. Not a problem won't be doing any SNMP
monitoring right now as I don't have anything to monitor as my router
isn't even my beloved Cisco at the mo. When I have more memory I will
play around with SNMP monitoring software if available for BSD, and my
all time favorite: Cacti.
Good luck!
Pieter
Thanks a lot Pieter!!!!
--Kaya
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