From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 30 20:06:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1068B106566B for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:06:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD9448FC1A for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:06:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so1053252ywh.14 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=lEdONDYNYWaKBdT4X9ocaFtgGK+AjlOuJXTzn9UWAok=; b=MQ/VsF20c7lFhEm10BMjOafJMndG4XonxcPrVnkW37x6t+dUOlbAnXHRx68MkklemH wrEbvCa2U3qFHX5W7UokC1dUAExPjhz4fxk7EWo4xFyiExpcDq9sKazL01lzn9MKfkMh EUCw8hslkfTGunoMf61DdLX+BtG4t2o0//+/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=wKoKk0c4oJJK6yFyPNFqvkgsmpHYbEhrc6mVhZg+fVGoq5/iMmim7F5l3GPfRorXfI IT7Nz5wQTfBK/M/e0iyZt5gBqSDOVVOFrY2lWf9UyvZWG7JT/ytGWyDf1gQgRNd/0Y/W lYbcd6siJrnxDKLa0LDB1J5BRKHvr1xlq3u6o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.49.15 with SMTP id w15mr2871936ybw.50.1248984370558; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A71F561.2050103@videotron.ca> References: <4A71F561.2050103@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:06:09 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0907301306x4bc9a4c6n3e8ca0affc7d8fe5@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: PJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:06:12 -0000 On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, PJ wrote: > I have (supposedly, as I am told by my bootup) upgraded to 7.2 > Wonderful. But how do i make this thing work. I've managed to do it on > an amd64 on an ACER Travelmate 4400 running at 1600mhz. > This box runs on 3ghz; Xorg comes up and the mouse is dead. Flashplayer9 > with linux-emulator f8 and all the tweaks does not work, acroread9 does > not either, > hal is useless. I've tried turning off the option AllowEmptyInput to > off; i've tried starting hal - and when I run startx, the configuration > file is the default built-in... I don't understand what the hell is > going on... None of the solutions on google seem to work either... > oh, but there is some sunlight in neverneverland... I can boot and I can > install all kinds of files - funny, I don't want to play with this crap... > and I certainly am not going to reinstall after all I have gone > through... If I do reinstall, it will be another OS. > If it all works on amd64, what's wrong with i386? > I think it's time to switch to something more reliable. > > There's nothing wrong i386, at least in the regard you're suggesting. Try searching deeper within yourself for the issue. -- Adam Vande More