5.3-RELEASE hw.ata.atapi_dma and DRI questions

2004-11-14 Thread Sean Welch
I've two questions I'm hoping can be answered quickly. After installing 5.3-RELEASE on my Dell Inspiron 8000 I put the following into /boot/loader.conf as per usual (previous) convention: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Though the sysctl does get set at boot the dvd drive still attaches as PIO4 instead of

APM and DRI lockups when suspending

2004-07-07 Thread Sean Welch
Duane, there have always been issues with this aspect of APM. I have found it sufficient to run two X servers to handle the issue. Most of my software runs in an X session without DRI enabled and then when I want to run accelerated 3D I just start up another X session with DRI enabled. For

Re: openoffice-1.1.1RC install without jdk

2004-03-18 Thread Sean Welch
As an additional data point, I noticed that configure is looking for javac so I just add /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/ to root's default PATH environment variable. Everything ran just fine after that. This is under 5.2.1-RELEASE. Sean The port is under construction at the moment. I told is

VMWare licensing file problem.

2004-02-06 Thread Sean Welch
Version 2 of VmWare is no longer sold so the evaluation license you got is most likely for version 4 (which does not run on FreeBSD yet). The confusion results from the fact that with version 2 you got a license file but starting with version 3 (which DOES run under FreeBSD) you are only supplied

RE: Unprobed PCI bus on VXPro II chipset

2003-12-25 Thread Sean Welch
24, 2003 3:14 PM To: Sean Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Unprobed PCI bus on VXPro II chipset You did not have to do all that hacking, there is an simple fix for old bio's and PCI cards. Add device puc to your kernel source and recompile. Your next boot review your boot log

Unprobed PCI bus on VXPro II chipset

2003-12-24 Thread Sean Welch
As I'm not quite sure where I should be asking for help with this I figured I'd try shooting the info over to freebsd-hackers (as it seemed the closest match) and to freebsd-questions (as there seems to be a requirement to join the list for hackers mail). I've got an oldish machine (EDO RAM and