Not very experienced with FreeBSD 7.1. I'm a comfortable Arch user though. I'm using FreeBSD 7.1 because I like the idea of clean, well documented code. My problems so far have been with the AMD 64 distro. The following is a list of issues I'm trying to deal with.
1. When installing desktop software from ports I seem to run into a wall every time. Mostly I'll see warnings like this:
- Package foo depends on package bar-X.X.X but bar-X.Y.Y is installed.
Q. What does this mean? Am I only being warned? I used the -F option to ignore these warnings. Was this the correct procedure?
- Package foo-X.X.X cannot be found
Q. Generally I'll search the web and install it or find the package in the ports directory and install it from there. This is how I got gnome to install (eventually.)
- gui is incredulously slow.
Q. I'm a bit skeptical about this because God knows I merely winged the xorg setup. I don't even know what video driver (or is it module? Synonymous?) I'm currently using. Probably some POS generic module. At any rate I'm sure this POS generic module could at least be tuned *correctly to perform well. Compilation time in the console is low so I doubt the bottleneck is anything but the current x setup.
- nvidia drivers
Q. I couldn't find any 64 bit binary packages on nvidias website. I'm assuming this is because they do not exist. How complicated a procedure would it be to install the 64 bit linux binaries?
Anyone know of legible (from a layman perspective) documentation concerning erroneous ports/package installations? Maybe some good threads concerning this issue. I'm not even sure how to define these problems without describing them in detail. Thanks a lot for your time!
- Rusty
1. When installing desktop software from ports I seem to run into a wall every time. Mostly I'll see warnings like this:
- Package foo depends on package bar-X.X.X but bar-X.Y.Y is installed.
Q. What does this mean? Am I only being warned? I used the -F option to ignore these warnings. Was this the correct procedure?
- Package foo-X.X.X cannot be found
Q. Generally I'll search the web and install it or find the package in the ports directory and install it from there. This is how I got gnome to install (eventually.)
- gui is incredulously slow.
Q. I'm a bit skeptical about this because God knows I merely winged the xorg setup. I don't even know what video driver (or is it module? Synonymous?) I'm currently using. Probably some POS generic module. At any rate I'm sure this POS generic module could at least be tuned *correctly to perform well. Compilation time in the console is low so I doubt the bottleneck is anything but the current x setup.
- nvidia drivers
Q. I couldn't find any 64 bit binary packages on nvidias website. I'm assuming this is because they do not exist. How complicated a procedure would it be to install the 64 bit linux binaries?
Anyone know of legible (from a layman perspective) documentation concerning erroneous ports/package installations? Maybe some good threads concerning this issue. I'm not even sure how to define these problems without describing them in detail. Thanks a lot for your time!
- Rusty
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