Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Sean Bryant
Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi to all. My name is Ivan and I'm new to FreeBSD and Unix, I worked a little in Linux, but it was a long time ago. I downloaded the 5.5 release and I plan installing it. I downloaded also all availible docs. I wondered if it is ok to start with this. And, also, I have an

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-15 Thread Sean Bryant
Norbert Papke wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Sean Bryant
Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Sean Bryant
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not

Re: gcc43 build snafu

2007-03-07 Thread Sean Bryant
Gary Kline wrote: Why, oh why, is this gcc-4.3 build bombing (jc1: out of memory) when I've got .75G of RAM and a huge disk? If the gcc43 port is experimental, would somebodt kindly clue me in? I'm building every portinto a package since ftp.freebsd.org doesn't have that many

Shared Memory and Xorg.

2007-02-11 Thread Sean Bryant
I tend to visit Opera's Desktop team blog to see what new features are going to be in the next release of the Opera browser. And one interesting tid-bit was: Added Shared X memory. Should now be quite a bit faster And beneath this note was: Note: On FreeBSD shared memory doesn't work by

Re: Flash in freebsd

2006-12-27 Thread Sean Bryant
Mario Lobo wrote: Read these instructions from Arjan van Leeuwen. It works perfectly !! Hi Henry, others, As of the latest weekly development release of Opera (see http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/), it's now possible to use any Linux plugin in the native