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Date:      Fri, 30 May 2014 13:16:19 +0200
From:      "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RPi + FreeBSD + Xorg + XBMC player  ?
Message-ID:  <20140530131619.1450b2fc@dijkstra-old.hb22.cruwe.de>
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On Thu, 29 May 2014 01:03:04 +0000
"Scott, Brian" <brian.scott4@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sulev-Madis
> Silber (ketas) Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2014 12:18 PM To: Marek
> Salwerowicz Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: RPi + FreeBSD + Xorg + XBMC player ?
> 
> >On 2014-05-28 00:32, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >> 
> >> I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in installing the X Server,
> >> simple window manager and XBMC software under FreeBSD?
> >> 
> >> I would like to use my RPi as XBMC media player.
> >
> >Should be possible. I've heard that X works there, but I haven't
> >tried it by myself. 
> 
> Has anyone actually got X running recently? I've just been trying to
> build a few packages on the Pi and it looks like things have moved on
> since the various tutorials on the web were written. The scfb video
> driver is included in ports now but  other broken-ness in xorg-server
> (dri) stops it being built.
> 
> Haven't even started trying to get applications like XBMC going.
> 
> Brian
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My experiences with the RPi are that bad that I consider the setup as
unusable:

- ports do not compile (PostgreSQL)
- ports compile but coredump (mit-krb5)
- machine crashes frequently

The only instance runnuing so far is an RPi setup for bind99 and
isc-dhcpd. I cannot assert that the RPi is at fault, could be the
SD-Card.

I have given up, though, $ENOTIME.

Cheers,
-- 
Christopher
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