From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 15: 5:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sm0101.promedia.net (sm0101.promedia.net [209.160.170.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0FB1529E for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from natedawg@office.ompages.com) Received: from office.ompages.com (mail@ppp-209-160-171-250.01.promedia.net [209.160.171.250]) by sm0101.promedia.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26329 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:05:27 -0800 Received: from natedawg by office.ompages.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11rUH4-0006OX-00 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:55:30 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:55:30 -0800 From: Nate Puri To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems in X and ports Message-ID: <19991126145530.A22420@office.ompages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I just successfully installed freebsd 3.3 on my laptop, pcmcia works, X works, it was not this easy with Debian. Two gripes. 1. When I do a 'make' in a ports directory, it attempts to download software but *never* finds it, not for a single port, and tells me to download it manually and put it in distfiles/. Why? I'd really like it to work like it's supposed to. 2. When I run X, everything looks fine, except for when I do opaque moves in my windowmanager (wmaker) or scroll up or down in an application. It's damn slow and choppy. Again, why? What do I fix and how? Thanks all in advance for your help. On a side note, I'm so pleased that my laptop finally works like it was designed. The pc card drivers work flawlessly when I suspend and resume. FreeBSD is the only OS I've used, from WinNT, Win9x, R H Linux, to Debian, to my custom built Linux. I could never get suspend resume to work correctly. You guys really have pcmcia and apm perfected for laptop PCs. I shall be the envy of my friend's whose suspend/ resume freezes their computer, screwed up their clocks, or broke their networking drivers. I will finally get huge uptimes on my laptop, a dream as yet unrealized. Thanks FBSD people, for knowing how to do it right. Let me know if it is that easy to get hardware support on my Hauppage BT848 TV card, my HP IDE/Atapi CD-Writer, or my parallel port scanner. Then I'll wipe my debian box and go with FBSD there too! Later, -- NatePuri publisher@office.ompages.com FreeBSD Newbie http://www.freebsd.org Freedom Fighter http://www.ompages.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message