From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 04:14:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD43B106564A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:14:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chmeeedalf@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD628FC08 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so1979348qwj.13 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:14:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; bh=8elJowAQqLloII2TUphblPiQCQ7X/ACvTJGSmncYy4Y=; b=eqo4Xn/GGaOmvdhNnuWBR3dg+yTuBxY7Viswi+19/n66fQ7q037HVeKXDDrqsPnBpQ tkYn/jRVctbOFHoq0wvuwHsbRAgx3y/3abxInfaBmAxkzBfnJMZla/vm0LGvFFQpXHOw mMSpvDaRZyLf/AC4YOdkL8JoXULC/O//N0JEw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=w6h68ACSc0Sg8LY1QG9a/JUJxvDcW7fMvkUIvgoeXHx6JamlU597aMNk5tvpa5UE3M vg47Tpt01zXHCZmR5MaufcXV6Fl4yv4sZdfypQdpGsdFujPe6MMj8xwEoV8PISHb4tEV Ui0fHP9GMN2OLqLEDG5diIdAzZLoyLgAPriqI= Received: by 10.229.91.145 with SMTP id n17mr1202124qcm.258.1297484048549; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from triad.knownspace (216-164-48-50.c3-0.gth-ubr1.lnh-gth.md.cable.rcn.com [216.164.48.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g28sm69035qck.1.2011.02.11.20.14.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:14:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <55213959-1A94-4F25-86CB-E502C61E3C6C@gmail.com> From: Justin Hibbits To: Super Bisquit In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:14:05 -0500 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: How does one minimize the base environment plus Xorg for lowend machines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:14:09 -0000 On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > The G3 B&W has been volunteered as part of an effort to use a > Lombard- The > laptop has the same cpu- as a device for the visually impaired. I'm > currently running a build of orca and attempting to lessen the build > by > removing unnecessary build options. > The release is the 9.0-CURRENT recently announced on the mailing list. > The attempt of porting emacspeak to the machine failed when using an > old > port on a OpenBSD install. NetBSD was difficult to boot due to not > knowing > the proper boot commands. (If someone knows how to do this or can > show me > what I did wrong, I'll be glad to read.) > Tiny BSD seems to be optimized for i386 processors. Can this be used > on a > Lombard or a B&W with Xorg and the r128 driver? > One of the light "Box" desktop environments can be used or the cwm > from > OpenBSD and orca setup to run along with it. Take a look at src.conf(5). I read through that then went crazy with the WITHOUT_* options in my /etc/src.conf, to disable as much as I could for my G4 MDD. - Justin