Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 04:01:05 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> To: jordan.breeding@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about -current Message-ID: <20020121040105.A15270@edgemaster.zombie.org> In-Reply-To: <20020121092209.WZWB10199.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55>; from jordan.breeding@attbi.com on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:22:08AM %2B0000 References: <20020121092209.WZWB10199.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@rwcrwbc55>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] First off, you sent this to the wrong list. Most of the questions you bring up in here should have been directed at -questions. On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:22:08AM +0000, jordan.breeding@attbi.com wrote: > I just upgraded to -current today to get a couple of > features including devfs working. In the process I > have run into a few questions (mainly things to do with > the fact that up until a few days ago I was only using > linux 2.4.x): If you are new to FreeBSD, -CURRENT might not be a wise place to start. > 1) Will either the in kernel or oss sound driver for an ... > 3) Will USB keyboards work as the system console > keyboard any time soon, right now I can't seem to get > my Sun Type 6 USB keyboard to work even though it shows > up in dmesg. If you have both a PS/2 and USB keyboard, you need to make use of `kbdcontrol -k`. > 4) Is there anyone actively maintaining dri for XFree86 > on FreeBSD, I couldn't get my Radeon 7500 to work with See /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod or http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ ... > 6) I have found the pages for hardware monitoring > support in the FreeBSD kernel and have a few questions > about it: Will the updated code which supports newer > AMD and VIA monitoring chips be rolled into -current > soon? And if so what userland utility does one use in > FreeBSD to pull values from the driver like lm-sensors > does for Linux? I've got /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon/ working perfectly with my setup. -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: 77042C7B smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org For PGP key, send e-mail with subject "send pgp key" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8S+bh2aukpHcELHsRAkEkAKCDaNuaDO953UgSgS8v20fLJ3Fl/wCfdzaS 29L42Sut+thttMICfQwI0s8= =vk/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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