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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news.eff.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Questions Questions Questions! Damn I'm frustrated trying to get FreeBSD optimized for my needs Date: 4 Jun 1996 16:56:28 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 71 Message-ID: <4p1mbc$q3@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31adfe7c.14012906@news.panix.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] SeVeN (push@panix.com) wrote: : ok. Hope I got your attention. I've recently decided to explore FreeBSD. Went : out and bought the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1 CD and the BSD Docs CD as well. IMHO : the BSD Docs CD is totally useless. There goes my $40 down the drain. ;( : Anyways, I've like what I've seen so far. Only bad thing is that I screwed up my : MBR on sd0 which is a totally win95 drive. Now win95 crashes 3 out of 5 times at : boot or hang on me right after the GUI is finished loading. : I've successfully installed FreeBSD. Could'nt get booteasy to see the FreeBSD : root on sd2. Solve this problem by spending too much money on System Commander : (kickass Boot Manager IMHO). Try OS-BS. : Then I found out about the ATI Mach64 problem with X. It seems that even my : Graphics Pro Turbo 4mb(really old rev) is causes problems cuz the damn X still : blanks on me. Well I don't know if the Walnut Creek dist has the latest X beta, : so if anyone can tell me I'll really appreciate it. That's a sio3 problem isn't it ? The Mach64 conflicts with your COM4. The generic kernel tries to probe com4 and shaggs it up. Try typing -c at the Boot: prompt, and disable sio3. : After 10 recompiles of the kernel I finally solve the damn SB problem. Seems : that sb0 is needed. If they only said so on the FreeBSD guide by Greg Lehey. : Good thing the recompiles takes only 5 mins each. Pah ! An hour and a half on my machine ! You're blessed ! : The only bad thing that comes out of this is that the KB would freeze on me : sometimes once I get the login prompt. This problem solves itself with the RESET : button but it's killing the fs due to improper shutdown. I guess it could be due : to the psm0 driver or something. : Now the thing I want to do most is to config the colors and rows on the default : bootup. Having 25 lines is kinda like running DOS. I mean it just feels like I'm : running DOS and not FreeBSD. I know that with Linux you can config the rows and : colors with lilo (at least that's what my friend tells me) : I would like to be able to run FreeBSD console with 50 lines or more, and the : characters be in bright white color instead of dark grey. man vidcontrol : Suggestions needed here. : is vt0 better than sc0?? When I tried to run sc0 with hardfonts on, the kernel : boot up screen or boot into config with -c is red(BG) and white (FG) : with vt0 everything is the good old black-white or black-grey. Until someone : teaches me how to config these colors, I'm sticking with the VT. My sc0 comes up white on black for kernel messages, grey on black otherwise. : well this sums up my initial experience with FreeBSD. Looks like another day of : trying to figure out how to get stuff to work in dos/windoze, except that I get : more answers when I crash instead of that stupid GPF that don't tell you : anything. or the exception #13 error that again don't tell you what caused it. : Now just 1 last complain, WALNUT CREEK! BURN YER CDs PROPERLY! I got errors on : some files on the cd which could not uncompress properly. sysinstall tells me : the archive is corrupt. >8( Is this consistent ? If it has problems at different places, it may be a memory speed/cache problem. : regards. : :) Be more optimistic. You've got a full-blown free-source-code unix OS on your PC - superior to the extreme when compared to DOS etc. There are teething problems. Some of them may be your fault.... don't bark so loud. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....