Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:59AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just reinstalled Xorg

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:16:31PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] Do I need to get Xorg working first? before I deploy gnome2? I do plan to install gnome 2 -certainly at some stage - would that solve my problems? I am a bit confused nowplease help! I thought gnome 2 wouldnt work if I

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: snip (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: snip (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0)

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 New driver is i810 The i810 driver doesn't quite support laptop screens that well. Try using the intel driver

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 New driver is i810 The i810 driver doesn't quite

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There should be a more elegant way to do this, but the way I did it was to: # pkg_delete -f xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Oleksandr Rudyk wrote: During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. Have you reported this yet? It might not be too late to fix it in 7.0-RELEASE. Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, but because I had tried the other trick I

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:15:01 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 1. With fdisk write down the exact parameters of your FreeBSD and vista parition s(start/end/size) 2. Nuke all your partitions (vista insists on it) 3. Install vista (set the size equal to your vista partion

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. Oh, btw: 6.3-RELEASE did the same for me, Using straight fdisk from the command line should avoid this. No offense, but when installing from scratch using

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Alphons Fonz van Werven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD. Ah, ok.

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Wojciech Puchar wrote: No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? you have to choose rescue disk from menu and CD/DVD. Ah, ok. Not a logical choice for a fresh install though... Alphons (still

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No offense, but when installing from scratch using sysinstall, do you actually have a command line available in that phase of the install? If I'm not mistaken, you don't get the emergency holographic shell until you commit, at which point disk partitioning has already been done. you have to

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Oleksandr Rudyk wrote: During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. Have you reported this yet? It might not be too late to fix it in 7.0-RELEASE. Oh,

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Kimi
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried startx but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here?

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried startx but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here? I did choose for Windows X during the FreeBSD setup -

Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried startx but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here? I did choose for Windows X during the FreeBSD setup - shall I do a port upgrade? Thanks This is really a

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried startx but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing something here?

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried startx but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Siraj Shaikh wrote: I have got a machine which came with Vista pre-installed. Now I would like to install FreeBSD on it, and so that I can dual boot between the two. The machine did come with a rescue CD which has an image of Vista on it. I

Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-28 Thread Siraj Shaikh
I have got a machine which came with Vista pre-installed. Now I would like to install FreeBSD on it, and so that I can dual boot between the two. The machine did come with a rescue CD which has an image of Vista on it. I tried installing FreeBSD (Vista was already installed), but then got a

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-28 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Siraj Shaikh wrote: How do I go about installing FreeBSD (6.3) on it now? Anyone has done this already please? I had the exact same problem just a few days ago and two solutions were quickly posted here: 1: http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_%26_Windows_Vista 2: When installing FreeBSD

Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-28 Thread Oleksandr Rudyk
I have installed FBSD 7.0 RC1 several weeks ago on my Dell XPS laptop with Vista. During BSD install I select don't touch MBR, but anyway FBSD MBR overwrite Vista MBR and I lost my Vista. Then I booted with Vista rescue CD and restore Vista MBR sector. So I got Vista again but no FBSD. The last