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'portmaster' is the choice. At first I tried 'portupgrade' which pulls in 'ruby' that I don't like. 'portmaster' is only a set of pure shell scripts that simply get the job done.

As far as I know, these files are normal in the root directory. .cshrc and .profile are actually hard symbolics to /root/.cshrc and /root/.profile respectively (or the other way around? You can use 'ls -i' to check the i-node number of them. If two files have the same i-node number, they are...

I have an intel wireless (2200, I believe) card on my Thinkpad T430. At first the wifi connection was very unstable. Sometimes I even couldn't ping my home router. At last I found the problem is that my wifi network consists of three access points. That is to say, although the network bears only...

LCD brightness works on my ThinkPad T430. The trick is you have to load the kernel module 'i915kms'. After you load the kernel module, brightness and sleep/wake will all work normally. And FYI, I am running 11-Release.

I've got a T430 and I've installed 9-PRERELEASE several times successfully using ZFS as root. Certainly it is ok to use GPT partition scheme.

works here. I have got an ivy bridge i5 3210m with hd4000 plus a nvidia external display card. I disabled nvidia optimus mode in BIOS and everything works fine either with hd4000 or with the nvidia card, but not with both(i.e. optimus mode).

intel gpu (sb and ib) should work. my intel hd4000 work well, but with some issues. e.g. cant do vt switch.

hmmm... back up your data and give it a try. It seems old ATI cards are well supported with the drm/drm2 in kernel. but I have no ATI cards to test that. For NVIDIA, I think it's better than ATI on FreeBSD, though many hate it for being close sourced... I've been running FreeBSD for years...

actually we have experimental ports for GNOME 3.x, which I have been running for months. The ports are NOT very stable, which, I guess, might be the reason they have not found the way into the official ports collection. If you want to give it a try, go to marcuscom.com for the ports.

I think, these messages can be safely ignored. some linux programs want to use some linux specific system calls that have not been implemented in the FreeBSD linux simulation.

FreeBSD uses the same font configuration as linux does. There are, maybe, 4 or 5 layers of configuration that matter. 1. /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf default system level configuration 2. /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf default system level configuration that overrides defaults.(this file...

I also have win7 and FreeBSD installed on my computer. My experience is that, install windows 7 first on a HD, then FreeBSD on the other. FreeBSD will automatically boot both OSes. I am not very sure of the details. However, while installing FreeBSD. You have to install a MBR, which I guess...

as root, execute: echo 'nvidia_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf

1. No 2. Search 'clang build' on wiki.freebsd.org for details about how to employ 'llvm/clang' while compile things. 3. For kernel and base system, yes. for the ports system, no. Many ports need patches to be built with clang. And some won't compile if clang is used. 4. No

Good job! I have two hard disks, one is for FreeBSD and the other is for Windows 7. And FreeBSD can boot Windows, however, Windows 7 can't boot FreeBSD...

There may be two methods to get things done. 1. Write your own BSD make script (i.e. Makefile). BSD makefile is very straightforward and simpler than GNU makefile. 2. Port your app to FreeBSD. i.e. Write a port for your app. Once you use system's make command, you can use those *.mk files by...

For me, I've been seeing those warning messages for years... Anyway, I can play VCD/DVD movies. If you can't play VCD/DVD, I think it is that you need to install necessary ports, or you have missed something in your system configurations.

Simply mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins will do the trick.

Hmmm, I am not sure if they are maintaining such a list on the FreeBSD wiki site. I just try to compile everything with clang, if problems arise, I tweak compile options or just recompile with gcc. For instance, x11/nvidia can be built with clang, the compiling is OK. But after you execute...

If you want to build ports with clang, build them at most with -O1. Some ports cannot stand higher optimization, such as gnome-system-monitor, which requires exactly -O0. x11/nvidia-driver can only be built with gcc, but not with clang!