Dell Inspirion 8500 laptop (x86, 2 GHz, P4m CPU, firewire, legacy, Intel) dual boot with XP Pro.
I just love the Dolphin "search" feature that you can drag your cursor over "save" and then see the directory tree for that specific search. I just love it to death. My son played with a "graphing" program for hours, I had to kick him off my box.
Just a few things, this being:
A malfunctioning pointer stick on my keyboard required coding xorg.conf so that my mouse actually had control of my cursor. I forgot about that. Its an old box.
I installed using a hardwired and resident "Broadcom" NIC becausebsd FreeBSD saw my PCMCIA slot but did not do anything with the Linksys NIC in that slot. If your machine is using Intel go to their site and they have a slew of utilities to properly configure your BIOS. DO THIS FIRST. KDE4 logs and
This platform rocks. My brother has been expounding on the virtues of Unix for years. I guess he's right. I can supply more info if need be.
I just love the Dolphin "search" feature that you can drag your cursor over "save" and then see the directory tree for that specific search. I just love it to death. My son played with a "graphing" program for hours, I had to kick him off my box.
Just a few things, this being:
- I installed successfully on the third attempt because the target at /usr/ports/X11/Xorg/ is a perfectly defined "PACKAGE". I looked in there before my third uneventful install which I started off with this /usr/ports/X11/Xorg/
pkg install
. The first two installations, using /usr/ports/X11/Xorg/make install clean
, both crashed and burned trying to instantiate Xorg. Main symptoms included the following: X.Org appeared to install flawlessly,Xorg -configure
did NOTHING. I will repeat: NOTHING,startx
did thisCode:xinit unable to run server
Code:unable to connect to xserver:connection refused
- During the
bsdFreeBSD 9.2 install I did not get prompted to create another user other than the root user. KDE4 login will not accept root login. This is a good time to have a liquor drink. Not a problem either. Just pause boot at end of thebsdFreeBSD 9.2 install and choose single user option. This eventually leads you to your prompt (using "root" login) and make modifications as required.
A malfunctioning pointer stick on my keyboard required coding xorg.conf so that my mouse actually had control of my cursor. I forgot about that. Its an old box.
I installed using a hardwired and resident "Broadcom" NIC because
dmesg
confirmed that my resident old 4x Radeon was clocked about two ticks below melting point. My display is better now than it has ever looked. I saw all the Radeon posts and I'm still wondering what that was all about.This platform rocks. My brother has been expounding on the virtues of Unix for years. I guess he's right. I can supply more info if need be.