Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
3. The issues with nvidia kernel module on amd64 (alternativelly does anyone know how hard it would be to get bettern 1024x768 with nv?) I used to be able to get nv to do 1280x1024, with my 6600LE graphics card. I could never convince it to do 1600x1200, the native resolution of my LCD

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 22:44, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 22:44, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All

congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After having the help of several developers to resolve hw issues on my machine I have set up a 2 dual boot enviroment between 8-current (for desktop use) and vista.I am just writting to say 8-current kicks vista's ass in response time, stability

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : After having the help of several developers to resolve hw issues on my : machine I have set up a 2 dual boot enviroment between 8-current (for : desktop use) and vista.I am just writting to say 8-current

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : After having the help of several developers to resolve hw issues on my : machine I have set up a 2 dual boot enviroment between 8-current (for :

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has blown up also since I use a nvidia card it is almost pointless unless I can run the

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread John Levine
You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has blown up You just boot the 386 install disk and install it, the same as you do on any other 386 box. Works great for me. If you want to run some 386 applications on top of an

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 18:53, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this has blown up also

Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers

2007-11-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 2. I meant features not formats and since I am using amd64 no wine Setting up FreeBSD i386 in a jail seems to do the job for most people. You can have a whole i386 system in a jail and it won't even recognize it's running on an amd64 kernel.