Any BSD users?

[Xccentricity]

Well the title says it,

Anyone here who uses FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, PCBSD or the likes?

Could you guys share your experience and throw light on how different it is from linux?

Well I could've searched wikipedia but I wanna first hand account of how it is.

[mehulved]

I have used PC-BSD. I use FreeBSD and used to, and will return back to, Gentoo/FreeBSD.
Only thing common between linux and a BSD is that they all are Unix like/compliant systems.
Linux is more poised towards System V and BSD's towards BSD4.4, AFAIK.
There's a lot of difference at the core like different kernel, file system, support for hardware, binary types, c library, make system and more.
Two issues that I faced are, flash support is really bad due to adobe not having native flash for BSD's so you have to rely on linux compat for that. Secondly, support for virtualisation is really pathetic.
Things to look out for - FreeBSD jails, zfs support, pf firewall got from OpenBSD.

[vaithy]

To Day I installed the PC BSD 1.5 in my desktop which has sabayan already installed.. after installation while reboot it
a option lines appear in the screen
F! Linux
F2 Linux
F3 ?
F4 PC BSD when I press F4 I directly go to PC BSD then when I want to try my other Linux in the system again I rebooted go to boot menu.. this time pressing F1 F2 no reaction but F4 is working for PC BSD...

If some body tell me how to multiboot with Linux, and BSD I'll be thankful to them

vaithi

[mehulved]

Install GRUB on your root partition instead of MBR. Or if you want to boot from GRUB, then install GRUB on your MBR and chainload PC-BSD.

[vaithy]

thanks mehulved!!
chainloaded the PC BSD partition in Sabayan ...Now I can both booted Linux as well as BSD.. This posting is from PC BSD konquerer ...despite its ease of use BSD is still long way to go to naturalise Linux influence on the FOSS supported base..

[Xccentricity]

I installed FreeBSD 7.0 on my system,

Even after running "xorgconfig" when I type "startx" I get an error saying:-

"Fatal server error
No screens found".



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I have installed XP on the primary partition, after installing FreeBSD I get 2 options:-
F1 - DOS
F2 - FreeBSD

But it never loads windows plz help.

[Xccentricity]

Bump.

[mediator]

Do u have gnome installed? If not try to install it via the freeBSD Cd => "sysinstall" => install additional packages=>"gnome" !!

[mehulved]

run xorgconfig to correct X issues

[Xccentricity]

I'm currently using DesktopBSD since FreeBSD did'nt work at all,

X starts up fine with KDE, but my PS/2 mouse doesnt work even after xorgconfig,

plz help.

[praka123]

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option          "CorePointer"
    Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
EndSection

^make sure u have these lines uncommented

[Xccentricity]

Wow dat was a really quick reply, thnx praka,

will checkout my xorg.conf,



PS - What do u mean by uncommented .

[mehulved]

As root type the following command

cat /dev/sysmouse

Now move your mouse. If it writes junk characters on your screen then your mouse is working fine, just need to edit mouse device to /etc/sysmouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
To stop the junk characters after testing, press ctrl + c

[Xccentricity]

Did'nt work, after typing the command and moving the mouse I dont get any characters at all.

[mehulved]

then you'll have to figure out at which port is the mouse getting detected.

[Xccentricity]

Originally Posted by mehulved

then you'll have to figure out at which port is the mouse getting detected.

Plz elaborate.

[praka123]

^cat /dev/input/mice
or
cat /dev/psaux

[Xccentricity]

Originally Posted by praka123

^cat /dev/input/mice
or
cat /dev/psaux

It says "No such device or directory".

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2" #PS/2 Mouse
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"

^^^This is the Input Section of my xorg.conf.

[praka123]

@rahul:
post the o/p of

ls -l /dev

in http://pastebin.ca and post the link here.

[Xccentricity]

Output of "ls -l /dev"

http://pastebin.ca/976671






I'm also including my xorg.conf:-

http://pastebin.ca/976673

[mehulved]

Also post output of fstat.

[Xccentricity]

fstat of \bin?

[Xccentricity]

Cmon man some help needed,

where is this frikkin file located?

F*!kin mouse.





My xorg.conf:-
http://pastebin.ca/976673

[mehulved]

Try /dev/psm0

[Xccentricity]

Originally Posted by mehulved

Try /dev/psm0

I did so from root, I get the following output:-





When I type "/dev/psm0" I get:-

Permission denied

When I type "cat /dev/psm0" I get:-

Resource Temporarily Unavailable

[mehulved]

fstat | grep psm0

[Xccentricity]

I get this output for "fstat | grep psm0" :-

 
root   moused   957   3 /dev   67   crw-rw-rw-   psm0 rw

[mehulved]

Try editing xorg.conf and use /dev/pcm0 as your mouse. Restart your X server after editing the config file. See if you're able to use the mouse then.

[Xccentricity]

It works but only "temporarily" meaning in the Login screen it doesnt work,

After exiting X and using "init 1" and running xorgconfig and editing the lines in xorg.conf to "/dev/psm0" it works,

but after restarting my pc it doesnt work.

[mehulved]

better to ask on desktopbsd.net/forums people out there should be able to help you better then. I think it could be cos of GPM but not sure.

Also, try this. After logging in, if the mouse doesn't work, open a terminal and login as root and type killall moused