From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 16 6:50:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB0537B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frostbytes.com (dsl092-065-149.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.65.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FDD43E42 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimf@frostbytes.com) Received: from [10.1.6.20] (cmb2-nip1.atg.com [63.116.205.150]) by frostbytes.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA15036; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:50:23 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 rl0 and xl0 watchdog timeout problems (and solution) From: Jim Frost To: Charles Swiger Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <00cd01c24526$8c6ea350$0301a8c0@prime> References: <1029448514.14968.76.camel@snowball.frostbytes.com> <00cd01c24526$8c6ea350$0301a8c0@prime> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-6) Date: 16 Aug 2002 09:47:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1029505650.30127.2.camel@icehouse> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:03, Charles Swiger wrote: > It's not entirely clear that you want to hear that there were easier ways of > installing everything (or some other high-level choice), but there were. > Try performing a custom installation, which lets you select from the > following distribution types: Ahh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! I don't really think that putting the canned configurations in "custom" is the right thing to do (to me that's the opposite of "custom"), but at least it's there. > You should also take a look in /usr/ports. Try building something that has > a lot of dependencies (ie, something you previously had to scour the net to > hunt down a half-dozen libraries that the software expects to use). Yes, ports is /great/. > As for configuring X, FreeBSD uses XFree86 (v4.2.0, IIRC), just like Linux > does. One difference is that many companies have released Linux drivers, > but not *BSD ones, so there is some difference in 3D hardware acceleration > support for OpenGL, but any reasonable video card should implement VESA > modes which will at least be functional under X for normal (2D) stuff. My problem with X was that the configurator locked the system in the middle of the install. That might be a result of me picking the cheapest possible videocard I could find :-). X server support is not really necessary so I can live with that. Thanks for your feedback, jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message