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    Solved Chromium slow

    I bailed out after a couple of hours waiting for the compile to finish, and installed the chromium package. Deleting the 'work' directory in the port saved about 8GB of filespace! Anyway the application didn't load, apparently due to the wrong permissions in the /usr/local/lib/libopenh264*...
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    LTS support and version clarifications

    OK, suitably chastened here after reading this thread, BUT stuck at the moment on 13-SABLE. Is there a path to RELEASE without throwing away applications and user details?
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    Solved Chromium slow

    Damn right! I'm still watching the compile screen an hour after starting 'make' in the port, and still going strong! I hope there's enough file space, 6 or 8 GB of space seems excessive.
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    [GhostBSD] Login

    I've just installed GhostBSD and (as with the live CD) I needed to change the video driver from "raydeon" to "vesa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf before X would start and show me a desktop after issuing startx.
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    Error 1 installing Gnome or KDE

    So what was the solution for error1?
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    Grub as bootloader

    My system has a Grub loader with a Linux system and some free space to install FreeBSD. Every attempt to install FreeBSD washes out, although the installer completes its script the first reboot fails and the system hangs (it's a USB disk). That's why I'm trying the Grub route, this machine...
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    How to start SSL?

    Thanks for the response jjennings089, I already read that part of the Handbook a couple of times and was perplexed by the section preceding the 'test' part as I don't run SendMail at all. Thus I hadn't considered running that test. At the same time after a couple of reboots the mail client seems...
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    How to start SSL?

    OK, I've installed openssl and there are tons of files in the system with 'ssl' in the name but how exactly to I start a service so ssl sets up keys and is available to my email client (which refuses to connect unless I have ssl or tcl running)? This is probably pretty obvious to most BSD users...
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    Linux vs. BSD = No real difference?

    Thanks for the responses: Broadcom wifi: the many varieties of chip and driver each needing slightly different firmware is the main headache, although even when that's sorted I found the whole System locked up solidly on me when using XFCE network manager to set the network details (that was...
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    Linux vs. BSD = No real difference?

    Presumably you meant "surmountable". As someone who has tried a couple of times to go the Linux -> FreeBSD route, I have to say the project makes that pretty hard. Firstly it's a nightmare getting Broadcom wifi to work on FreeBSD, when you get past that the usual features like Keepass(x) and...
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    Too much information!

    Thanks for the replies! [Later edit] After a day and a re-install (for other reasons) the Broadcom refused to connect. I got round it eventually by installing a desktop - using PC-BSD - and using wifimgr to scan and log into the network. That stuck ok! Of course PC-BSD had its own problems...
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    Too much information!

    Finally. finally, getting my Broadcom 4312 network card to talk to the outside world, I have a query someone might be able to help me with - I've generated the interface wlan0 as per book and have dhcp running through that. However the original bwn0 interface is still generating interminable...
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    Desktop environment.

    Nah, if a GUI was unnecessary for a server, Windows server products wouldn't ship with one.
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    FreeBSD + Gnome 2 - command 'update-packages' is not known

    The pkg_upgrade script in bsdadminscripts seems to do the job nicely!
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    CUPS setup

    Well, upgrading all the packages to the 'stable' branch from those installed from 'release' seems to have cured that problem, cupsd now starts.
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    FreeBSD + Gnome 2 - command 'update-packages' is not known

    As I understand it, upgrading ports doesn't update installed packages though does it? Neither does freebsd-update. So how to update stuff installed as packages? This software update tool indicates lots of outdated packages are installed.
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    entry for FreeBSD for grub2

    But that just seems to be a Grub2 problem, it may need reinstalling to the right place (which I'd have to lookup but a safe bet would be the first HD MBR).
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    CUPS setup

    Thanks - that was my first guess. Cups doesn't start though, if I run /usr/local/sbin/cupsd start or restart I get /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/cupsd: Undefined symbol "_httpWriteGNUTLS" How do I get it to start?
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    CUPS setup

    Here's the instruction in the cups package script: If you are using a USB printer wtih FreeBSD 8.0 or later, you will need to find the proper /dev/usb/* device pointed at by the /dev/ugen* entry. Follow the instructions for devfs.rules as above, but append a rule similar to the following for...
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    Setting up USB printer

    What about the error: Undefined symbol "_httpWriteGNUTLS" mentioned earlier? I have the same problem after install istalling CUPS package, localhost:631 won't even open! [later:] Updating all installed packages to the 'stable' set (from 'release') seems to have sorted that out!
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