From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 9 18:18:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEB71065676 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:18:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41218FC1E for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:18:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nA9IIctn076293; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:18:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com ([71.252.219.43] helo=tethys.ringofsaturn.com) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; 9 Nov 2009 12:18:38 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:18:38 -0600 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Masoom Shaikh In-Reply-To: References: <07c4f4ba46c2c97a1092fe2cc108f375@ringofsaturn.com> Message-ID: <4ead54d2413c6d18bf7bcc4c00d21d5b@ringofsaturn.com> X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-trunk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, "questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems 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: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:18:40 -0000 On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:06 +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello, Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed with my experience problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts Hinting -> Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96......this is has worked for all combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1 problem # 2 I observed that both FreeBSD8.0-RC1 and FreeBSD8.0-RC2, simply freeze due to no reason. The pain is I don't get a core dump. When it freezes the only option is to hard boot by reseting the power. This might need more information to guess the cause. I will give basic info. This is Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop, with Intel Core2. My suspect mostly goes to wpi driver, no proof, just my gut feeling. problem # 3 starting with 8.0 wpi driver no longer is the interface, wlanX is to be created. this is not news, but every time I manually create the wlan0 interface and spawn wpa_supplicant. This shuould be automatic, as I have followed the guidelines of rc.conf(5). I can provide output of rc_debug="YES" if someone is willing. How can i install all files under /etc from the source ? Masoom Shaikh Regarding #2, I suggest disabling ACPI. I also had system freezes happen on my computer until I did this but this has always been an ongoing issue with my system and I lose nothing by turning it off. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl http://networking.ringofsaturn.com [3] how do we disable acpi ? is it hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot ? if it is I guess I shud set it to 1 in loader.conf, it still remains 0 You can disable APIC support with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl http://networking.ringofsaturn.com Links: ------ [1] mailto:rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com [2] mailto:masoom.shaikh@gmail.com [3] http://networking.ringofsaturn.com