Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
> 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 panel, though. Claimed to be limited by BIOS setting, whatever that means. There was, and is, however, a funky booting issue: sometimes nv would not get the card set up right, and all I would see was blocky-wrong-raster-ish screen noise. That would go away if I switched to vesa mode (which has always worked reliably for me) and back again. Sadly that fix doesn't work since the last upgrade (from 7.2 to 7.3), seemingly, so I'm stuck with vesa at 1280x1024, which is tollerable for my purposes, given how fast the processors are. Actually, I don't have that at the moment, either: something broke GNOME at the ORB level, seemingly, after I upgraded to RELENG_7... I'm fighting with portupgrade at the moment... Hopefully it'll all come good again once it's been re-built... Cheers, -- Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
-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 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 nvidia kernel module. >>> That's odd. >>> >>> The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from >>> the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which >>> methods have you tried? >> With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had >> where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was >> instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. > > Sorry, but I can barely parse the sentence above. Do you mean that you > _did_ installl i386, but it had issues? Yes to starting with i386 and moving to amd64 - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP/+cJ9+1V27SttsRArb1AJ9+Pl9C65JhoqhV5glmjwHkkd8GsgCffS0j gbEGChReJu0q45ylY0/EncM= =C+3c -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
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 blown up also since I use a nvidia card it is almost >>> pointless unless I can run the nvidia kernel module. >> >> That's odd. >> >> The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from >> the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which >> methods have you tried? > > With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had > where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was > instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. Sorry, but I can barely parse the sentence above. Do you mean that you _did_ installl i386, but it had issues? Or that you had an _amd64_ installation, but was forced to move back to i386? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
-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 since I use a nvidia card it is almost >> pointless unless I can run the nvidia kernel module. > > That's odd. > > The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from > the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which > methods have you tried? With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. Even though I don't feel like rehashing all the stuff that I had to go through to get some stuff working (do a search for threads started by me) suffice it to say that when I first got the box 90% of the devices that the machine came with either where not functional and/or had driver issues. After working with the people on -current (and learning a fair amount about the guts of FreeBSD) there are only 3 issues left: 1. The NIC slowly dies (see "re(4) slowly dies") 2. Problems reading/writting from dvd/cd (see the many threads on ihc9 issues on -current [note to Jeremy the Phillips just arrived but I am in the process of doing a portupgrade -afk so will test it tommorow]) 3. The issues with nvidia kernel module on amd64 (alternativelly does anyone know how hard it would be to get bettern 1024x768 with nv?) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP7UVJ9+1V27SttsRAjlPAJ4wqFDaow0JvT23Copd3M27x5exXACdGT1+ VYEXsDwG7uUYUtuyqqQwK2M= =8Tbq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
>> 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 amd64 kernel, I agree that's a lot trickier. If I had more time, I would work on getting cross-compiling ports to work properly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
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 nvidia kernel module. That's odd. The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which methods have you tried? BTW, the i386 kernel module of nvidia should run fine on FreeBSD/i386. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
-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 : desktop use) > and vista.I am just writting to say 8-current kicks : vista's > ass in response time, stability [note 1], and almost every : other > aspect except for end-user oriented office apps [note 2] and games. > : : Notes: : : 1. As was posted in an other thread my nic still > has a slow death issue : 2. I meant features not formats and since > I am using amd64 no wine > > 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 nvidia kernel module. - --Aryeh - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP37nJ9+1V27SttsRAuEsAJ9FN80TH243ApUahdvBkxES2KbBZgCcCEpZ AD9ACLTTvbnhrBHrxhk7JnA= =68JJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers
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 kicks : vista's ass in response time, stability [note 1], and almost every : other aspect except for end-user oriented office apps [note 2] and games. : : Notes: : : 1. As was posted in an other thread my nic still has a slow death issue : 2. I meant features not formats and since I am using amd64 no wine You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. Warner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
congrlations to the freebsd developers
-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 [note 1], and almost every other aspect except for end-user oriented office apps [note 2] and games. Notes: 1. As was posted in an other thread my nic still has a slow death issue 2. I meant features not formats and since I am using amd64 no wine - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHPyUKJ9+1V27SttsRAq6FAJ91vQ/oxWGBN+IVqIsPXA8oWODgnACcCZ8a T9/R/6Zz1tovsNtrvP0RU2s= =g5sJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
