Re: New to FreeBSD
Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. And, also, I have an integrated GPU, it works well on FreeBSD? Thanks, Ivan I'd give the 6.2 release a shot. the 5.5 is a legacy release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Norbert Papke wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K -38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: GeForce 7600 GS port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xfc00-0xfcff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x03 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems the driver is attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x00f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 its a 6800 GT. From BFG. I am on CURRENT. And xorg 6.9.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards Nvidia :-( Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer system to be better than a non-accelerated frame buffer. Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a G400 or the like), but it's been a long time... (I'm currently using a lowish-end NVidia card under the x.org nv driver, but it has issues (of which no 3D accel is but one...) Cheers, Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gnome, or basically id like to try some of the lesser known, but still just as functional desktops. can i get some recommendations, as well as what graphical mail reader and web browser works best with your recommendation? thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out http://www.enlightenment.org/Enlightenment/DR17/ It's in ports and its probably what you're looking for, fast, function and a fair bit of eyecandy. I honestly opt for Opera because its fast, functional and it has all the functionality I want built right in. As for mail, it seems Opera dropped the ball on IMAP support. It's utterly horrid in Opera 9. Because of this I go for thunderbird because it just works the way I want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc43 build snafu
Gary Kline wrote: Why, oh why, is this gcc-4.3 build bombing (jc1: out of memory) when I've got .75G of RAM and a huge disk? If the gcc43 port is experimental, would somebodt kindly clue me in? I'm building every portinto a package since ftp.freebsd.org doesn't have that many v6- packages and these I can share with my other platforms. So far I've been able to figure out every other build. At least those not totally fouled up. Here, I need help. gary Makefile:11912: warning: ignoring old commands for target `multi-clean' /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/gcc/gcj -B/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava/ -B/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/gcc/ -ffloat-store -fomit-frame-pointer -fclasspath= -fbootclasspath=../.././..//gcc-4.3-20070302/libjava/classpath/lib --encoding=UTF-8 -Wno-deprecated -fbootstrap-classes -g -O2 -c -o gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.lo -fsource-filename=/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava/classpath/lib/classes -MT gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.lo -MD -MP -MF gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.deps @gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.list /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/gcc/gcj -B/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava/ -B/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/gcc/ -ffloat-store -fomit-frame-pointer -fclasspath= -fbootclasspath=../.././..//gcc-4.3-20070302/libjava/classpath/lib --encoding=UTF-8 -Wno-deprecated -fbootstrap-classes -g -O2 -c -fsource-filename=/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava/classpath/lib/classes -MT gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.lo -MD -MP -MF gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.deps @gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.list -fPIC -o gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/.libs/HTML_401F.o jc1: out of memory allocating 4072 bytes after a total of 536277936 bytes gmake[3]: *** [gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build/i386-portbld-freebsd6.2/libjava' gmake[1]: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build' gmake: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43. http://gcc.gnu.org/ It's right there on the front page. So yes I'd call it experimental. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shared Memory and Xorg.
I tend to visit Opera's Desktop team blog to see what new features are going to be in the next release of the Opera browser. And one interesting tid-bit was: Added Shared X memory. Should now be quite a bit faster And beneath this note was: Note: On FreeBSD shared memory doesn't work by FreeBSD design. You need to run this as as root: # sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 What exactly does this mean. And is X shared memory special shared memory in anyway? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash in freebsd
Mario Lobo wrote: Read these instructions from Arjan van Leeuwen. It works perfectly !! Hi Henry, others, As of the latest weekly development release of Opera (see http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/), it's now possible to use any Linux plugin in the native Opera for FreeBSD version, including Flash and Acrobat Reader. The feature will be included in the upcoming Opera 9.1. For now, it'll require some actions to get it to work, but if you'd like to experiment with this, this might help: 0) Make sure you have the x11/linux-xorg-libs port installed. 1) Download and extract the latest weekly release for both FreeBSD and Linux: http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-507/intel-freebsd/opera-9.10-20061205.4-shared-qt.i386.freebsd-en-507.tar.bz2 http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/Weekly-507/intel-linux/opera-9.10-20061205.1-static-qt.i386-en-507.tar.bz2 (FreeBSD package is for FreeBSD 6.x and requires Qt installed) 2) Copy operapluginwrapper from the Linux package over to the FreeBSD package: $ cd opera-9.10-20061205.4-shared-qt.i386.freebsd-en-507 $ cp ../opera-9.10-20061205.1-static-qt.i386-en-507/plugins/operapluginwrapper plugins/ Now, if you want to run the Opera weekly directly from the package without installing (will use a fresh, empty profile, recommended): 3) Copy libnpp.so within the FreeBSD package to a new location: $ cp plugins/libnpp.so bin/libnpp.so 4) Run Opera $ ./opera If instead you want to install Opera for all users (will overwrite existing installations and use your default profile, not recommended with development releases like this): 3) Run install $ ./install.sh 4) Copy libnpp.so manually to the Opera binary directory $ cp plugins/libnpp.so /usr/local/share/opera/bin/ 5) Run Opera $ /usr/local/bin/opera The actions described here do not affect Java; you'll still be able to run Java applets with the native version of Java (such as diablo-jdk or diablo-jre). We appreciate any reports on whether this feature works as expected (or doesn't at all). On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:31:30 +0100, Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you support. I have posted on the forum, on ocasion. The main issues, for me, are 1) Java (idiablo-jdk - it doesn't work, even though the path is right); I'm using it here - the path to use is /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386/. You can post on the forum if you have more problems with this. It could be that you're using a package that's compiled for a different version of FreeBSD; use the .4 package if you're on FreeBSD 6. 2) the Flash plugin. Is there a way to use the Linux emulation layer in order to get the plug-in working? See above :) 3) Cyrillic fonts look small, and you can't make them bigger. I don't know about that, but you could file a bug at http://bugs.opera.com/. Best regards, Arjan van Leeuwen Actually 9.10 was released and it is supposed to have support out of the box for linux plugins. So why not try the latest release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
