From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 08:57:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557A116A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp5-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp5-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E26E43D31 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:57:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@mullet.se) Received: from av5-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av5-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.114])i5G8tPVk003020 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:55:25 +0200 Received: by av5-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D5B6737F2E; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av5-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BA637E42; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (h118n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.118]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4F437E4E; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40D00ADD.9050002@mullet.se> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:54:53 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thinbsd@cogidis.com References: <40CEBC17.9050602@mullet.se> <20040615115341.GA20812@aoi.wolfpond.org> <40CEFDBC.8000108@univ-mlv.fr> <40CF0BF8.3040206@mullet.se> <20040616075825.GB23345@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20040616075825.GB23345@aoi.wolfpond.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Thinbsd] Re: ThinBSD with other videodriver X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:57:07 -0000 Francois Tigeot wrote: > When we started the project, we thought about flash-based devices, but had > not yet time to test them. > It is good news to hear that they work almost out-of the box ! With compliments to FreeBSD's advanced three stage bootloader things like this is very easy to do :-) The boot mechanism is one of the hidden gems in FreeBSD. > In the interim, I just put a new ramdisk image on the web site with > support for the 'trident' driver. You will still have to edit xorg.conf to > reflect your configuration, though. I've compiled a new a new Xserver and I'll see if I can get time to try it out this evening. I've also compiled a new rdesktop from their cvs repository I'd like to get redirection to a local printer working too so I can put these boxes in production. Printer & disk redirection is working nicely on my "normal" FreeBSD machines with rdesktop from cvs. /Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, Web: www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimised for FreeBSD & Linux