Introduction
Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France). I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 2001, I started out with Slackware 7.1, then after a few years of using Slackware and Debian, I moved to CentOS in 2006, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I'm running a one-man computer company (Microlinux: http://www.microlinux.fr) spezialized in computer solutions based on GNU/Linux and FOSS. Up until now, I never gave FreeBSD a try, but sometimes I used to stumble over the documentation, and I always thought: heck, this is how an operating system should be documented. I even went so far as to be almost jealous of the handbook, and wishing there was something similar for Linux (so I went and even wrote one: http://tinyurl.com/no254g) But a few days ago I decided to take the plunge. No, not migrate all my machines to FreeBSD. But I have two old NEC PowerMates in my office, for teaching and testing purposes, and I decided to download FreeBSD 8.0, do a lot of RTFM and just play with it and see if I can make it do all the things I'm doing with Linux (and maybe more). More recently, I've been attracted by the more centralized (and way less chaotic) development model of FreeBSD. So far, after reading chapters 1 to 5 from the fine Handbook, I managed to install FreeBSD, configure X11 and install XFCE. This all raised a few questions, so I thought my next move would be to say hello in this list and ask my questions here, very soon. Cheers from the freezing South of France, Niki Kovacs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Configure X: multiple keyboard layouts ?
Hi, I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.: - french - swiss french - german On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the configuration for this looks like this : Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout fr,ch,de Option XkbVariant ,fr, Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle EndSection This stanza enables me to toggle between different keyboard layouts, using the [Alt]+[RightShift] key combination. You might wonder about the XkbVariant option: the swiss keyboard layout has two variants: fr and de. This is to indicate the swiss roman layout. Now is there any way I could achieve a similar thing with the more recent X.org shipping with FreeBSD 8.0 ? Any suggestions ? Niki Kovacs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Problem configuring X: FreeBSD 6.4, Intel video card, Fujitsu lifebook
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.4 on a Fujitsu lifebook. I'm quite new to FreeBSD (see previous post Introduction). Some time ago, I had bought (and partially read) Michael Urban's FreeBSD 6 Unleashed. I just worked through the initial chapters, and managed installing FreeBSD and configuring X just fine. Only I ran into trouble installing a desktop environment, since building gnome2-lite failed. I thought before doing anything, I'd get a more recent set of FreeBSD install discs, since the book includes 6.1, which seems a bit outdated. Now I did an install using a set of 6.4 install discs. Everything ran fine, except I can't get X to work anymore. Configuration: # Xorg -configure # mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf And then test: # startx X crashes with the following error message: Fatal server error: Couldn't find PLL settings for mode! I googled about this and found a few results... on the Ubuntu 8.10 bugtracker. Apparently the 'intel' video driver has some problems with my specific Intel video card. What now? Try to use the older 'i810' instead of 'intel'? But how would I do that? Simply replacing the corresponding Driver line in xorg.conf doesn't help. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Introduction
Hi, I'm an Austrian sysadmin living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. I've started with Slackware (7.1, I think) on a battered 486, hopped distros for some time, used Mandriva, Debian and then Slackware again for a few years. In the last two years or so, I've been mainly using a mix of CentOS (a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone) and Fedora. I've been working as a writer for the french magazine Linux Pratique since 2004. For the last two years, my job consisted primarily in networking a series of small public libraries in eleven small towns around here, using 100% open source software. I don't know why, but it looks like I never crossed paths with FreeBSD. Only recently, I took a peek in the apparently well-written documentation. Now I have some spare time and also a spare machine (a Fujitsu Lifebook), and I thought I'd give FreeBSD a spin, just out of mere curiosity. Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
