Hi, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to BSD but I thought I'd install it on my notebook so that I can do my Zope + PostgreSQL development on it: BeOS doesn't yet have have select() and windows 2k + cygwin isn't so much fun either.
I've got FreeBSD 4.6, 4.7 and 5.0 nad have problems with all three. I've checked the FAQs and searched the web but haven't really round anything useful. I was hoping 5.0 would have the best support for my notebook (Sony VAIO GR1114 EK) but I can't even boot properly as the boot hangs on the the cardbus driver. I've been told I can't comment out or bypass the driver as it's hard-coded in the kernel so I'd like to know what I can do. In BeOS we have somethign called failsafe mode which disables pretty much everything except VGA, keyboard and mouse and is quite useful when tracking hardware problems. Is there something similar for FreeBSD? Will I need to recompile the kernal and if yo how do I do this before I can install the OS? I also received 4.6 and 4.7 and tried them. Both boot and install but 4.7 seems to struggle with my Toshiba DVD meaning that it takes about one minute longer to boot each time than 4.6. So I decided just to install 4.6. I'm not after bells and whistles after all. The install runs fine apart from the fact I cannot find drivers for my graphics card (Radeon mobility) for XFree86. I've read somewhere that the ATI drivers didn't make it into the distribution so I tried just a VESA setup. But I get an error when trying to start X-Windows that no monitor can be found. I realise that this is an XFree86 error but having tried all the various approaches and crashing the system with the "autoconfigure" option I thought it was time to ask the experts. By the way: this is a high traffic list. Is it possible to get it as digest? Thanx very much Charlie Clark -- Charlie Clark Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 GSM: +49-178-782-6226 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
