From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 6 15:10:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1662E1065672 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2A18FC1B for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ASSP.nospam (tethys.ringofsaturn.com [71.252.219.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by tethys.ringofsaturn.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nA6EfkuY025015; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:41:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com) Received: from tethys.ringofsaturn.com ([71.252.219.43] helo=tethys.ringofsaturn.com) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; 6 Nov 2009 08:41:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:46 -0600 From: Rusty Nejdl To: Masoom Shaikh In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <07c4f4ba46c2c97a1092fe2cc108f375@ringofsaturn.com> X-Sender: rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3-trunk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, "questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:29 -0000 On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello, Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed with my experience problem # 1 The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts Hinting -> Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96......this is has worked for all combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1 problem # 2 I observed that both FreeBSD8.0-RC1 and FreeBSD8.0-RC2, simply freeze due to no reason. The pain is I don't get a core dump. When it freezes the only option is to hard boot by reseting the power. This might need more information to guess the cause. I will give basic info. This is Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop, with Intel Core2. My suspect mostly goes to wpi driver, no proof, just my gut feeling. problem # 3 starting with 8.0 wpi driver no longer is the interface, wlanX is to be created. this is not news, but every time I manually create the wlan0 interface and spawn wpa_supplicant. This shuould be automatic, as I have followed the guidelines of rc.conf(5). I can provide output of rc_debug="YES" if someone is willing. How can i install all files under /etc from the source ? Masoom Shaikh Regarding #2, I suggest disabling ACPI. I also had system freezes happen on my computer until I did this but this has always been an ongoing issue with my system and I lose nothing by turning it off. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl http://networking.ringofsaturn.com