From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 10:38:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B305437B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:38:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from issv0171.isis.de (issv0171.isis.de [195.158.131.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D27843FBD for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charlie@begeistert.org) Received: (qmail 1567 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Mar 2003 18:38:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO .1047055199.fake) ([213.128.126.177]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.isis.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Mar 2003 18:38:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 19:39:20 +0100 From: Charlie Clark In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20030307182900.019cdc48@postamt1.charite.de> Message-Id: <20030307193920.3401.4@.1047055199.fake> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <5.2.0.9.1.20030307182900.019cdc48@postamt1.charite.de> Subject: Getting started with FreeBSd on a notebook To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Beam devel Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to BSD but I thought I'd install it on=20 my notebook so that I can do my Zope + PostgreSQL development on it: BeOS=20 doesn't yet have have select() and windows 2k + cygwin isn't so much fun=20 either. I've got FreeBSD 4.6, 4.7 and 5.0 nad have problems with all three. I've=20 checked the FAQs and searched the web but haven't really round anything=20 useful. I was hoping 5.0 would have the best support for my notebook (Sony VAIO=20 GR1114 EK) but I can't even boot properly as the boot hangs on the the=20 cardbus driver. I've been told I can't comment out or bypass the driver as=20 it's hard-coded in the kernel so I'd like to know what I can do. In BeOS we=20 have somethign called failsafe mode which disables pretty much everything=20 except VGA, keyboard and mouse and is quite useful when tracking hardware=20 problems. Is there something similar for FreeBSD? Will I need to recompile=20 the kernal and if yo how do I do this before I can install the OS? I also received 4.6 and 4.7 and tried them. Both boot and install but 4.7=20 seems to struggle with my Toshiba DVD meaning that it takes about one=20 minute longer to boot each time than 4.6. So I decided just to install 4.6.=20 I'm not after bells and whistles after all. The install runs fine apart=20 from the fact I cannot find drivers for my graphics card (Radeon mobility)=20 for XFree86. I've read somewhere that the ATI drivers didn't make it into=20 the distribution so I tried just a VESA setup. But I get an error when=20 trying to start X-Windows that no monitor can be found. I realise that this=20 is an XFree86 error but having tried all the various approaches and=20 crashing the system with the "autoconfigure" option I thought it was time=20 to ask the experts. By the way: this is a high traffic list. Is it possible to get it as digest? Thanx very much Charlie Clark --=20 Charlie Clark Helmholtzstr. 20 D=FCsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 GSM: +49-178-782-6226 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message