From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 07:55:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C90616A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 07:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53209.mail.yahoo.com (web53209.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A11343D1F for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 07:55:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jasonosgerby@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20041002075555.2466.qmail@web53209.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [69.29.71.93] by web53209.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:55:55 PDT Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 00:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Osgerby To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200410020217.i922H8Tp006058@realtime.exit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Amazing. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 07:55:56 -0000 Did you have any trouble setting up Xorg on it? I recently attempted to upgrade this machine, an old Pentium 2 box, from 4.10 to 5.3 Beta 6 just to take a look at the new features, but whenever I tried to run startx after Xorg -configure had finished running, the screen would flash then simply go back out to the console with the message "waiting for the X server to shut down." I tried all kinds of things to make it work, but no go. Any ideas what I could be missing, anyone? Frank Mayhar wrote: I just want to drop a line to you folks (and to Bill Paul in particular) to express my appreciation for your work. I received my new laptop today after my old one finally succumbed to a combination of old age and ancient coffee spills. I installed 5.3-BETA6 on it immediately, no trouble, it knew about the Broadcom NIC out of the box and I did a quick check to learn how to set up ndis so I could use the Dell (actually Broadcom) wireless NIC as well. Built ndis, converted the Windows driver, built if_ndis, installed it, loaded it, configured the interface, ran dhclient and I'm using it as I type this. Took maybe an hour, including burning the driver and /usr/src on a DVD to carry into the living room. I was so impressed that I just had to write and say so. Kudos to you guys. You do good work. After having had to deal with the insides of Linux for the last year, it's a pleasure to use a system that is built with such professionalism. Thanks! -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!