On Freitag, 6. Mai 2011 at 15:30, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: Dear All > > I am installing DragonFly BSD onto a Thinkpad X60. I recently installed on a X40, so let's see. There is also a page on the Website about the T42[1] and the X61s[2], especially most of the latter should apply to your case as well. > Symptoms: > > Major: > > 1. After the post-installation configuration step, I chose reboot. > While rebooting, the system seemed to crash and I ended up inside a > debugger. However, after a successful shutdown and reboot, the system > seemed to run OK. >From what I gather SMP Kernels with IO APIC enabled don't work. I just settled >on using UP since I only have one core anyway. You may try setting >hw.apic_io_enable=0 in /boot/loader.conf > > 2. During configuration dhcp seemed to find the network (at least, a > dialogue appeared, giving me some info ending with "Status: Active"), > but after I'd rebooted into X and launched Firefox, Firefox could not > find external urls. So, perhaps dhcp didn't work and I should configure > the network manually. Is this on the WLAN? Which card? I'm having massive trouble getting ath(4) to work with most WLAN routers, e.g. I don't receive the DHCPOFFERs from my home WLAN. My phone's WiFi hotspot (Motorola Milestone / CyanogenMod 6) works perfectly, though. I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to reporting this properly yet. > > 3. The window manager is TWM. On exiting TWM, the screen froze and > didn't return me to the console. I had to go to another console and > kill X manually. When it freezes, what does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say? > > Minor: > > 4. I don't think I set the correct keyboard map (and/or screen map?). > Most of the keyboard works as it should, but shift-3 does not produce > the expected "£" --- it doesn't produce anything, so maybe the keyboard > map is OK but the screen map is wrong? Which layout are you expecting to use, and what are the respective lines in /etc/rc.conf? > > 5. I was expecting FVWM as the window manager: I thought the docs said > that was the default. Presumably I can change the window manager. > Should it have been FVWM? Is the fact that I got TWM instead a symptom > that some config was wrong? Probably ... (I'm not using the GUI image, so rather wild guessing here).
You could a) check that FVWM2 is installed (just run fvwm2 from within twm) b) add "exec fvwm2" as the last line of your $HOME/.xsession (and check that it is the *only* exec line, of course) > > All in all, it doesn't look very healthy. Can anybody indicate what > might have gone wrong? Or, if I re-install, what signals I should be > looking out for? It's not so bad :) Regards, matthiasr [1] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/ThinkpadT42/ [2] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/ThinkpadX61s/
