From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 30 20:43:55 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 5F8101065672 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:43:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from lmailproxy01.edpnet.net (lmailproxy01.edpnet.net [212.71.1.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE03D8FC13 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (77.109.106.169.adsl.dyn.edpnet.net [77.109.106.169] (may be forged)) by lmailproxy01.edpnet.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6UK2nJn028085; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:02:49 +0200 From: Julien Cigar To: PJ In-Reply-To: <4A71F561.2050103@videotron.ca> References: <4A71F561.2050103@videotron.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:02:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1248984169.980.8.camel@rivendell.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at lmailproxy01.edpnet.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_NONE autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on lmailproxy01.edpnet.net 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 20:43:55 -0000 On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:32 -0400, 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 This is probably due to a buggy bios, try to disable "USB legacy support", it should fix the problem (at least on mine) > with linux-emulator f8 and all the tweaks does not work, acroread9 does > not either, Flash or Acroread have nothing to do with FreeBSD. Emulation is always something "hazardous", it might work, it might not. > hal is useless. I've tried turning off the option AllowEmptyInput to define "useless" ? It works like a charm here. Did you read the FAQ on freebsd.org/gnome ? > 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. > -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52