Am Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:41:46 +0000 schrieb Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org>: > On 31/10/14 10:41, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > > - grub-install was not able to install grub if the file system > > root was on a logical partition. > > I once thought that was a limitation of what the FreeBSD kernel can > use as a root device. In that case it should be more clearly > documented. Or if not, it may turn out to be a bug in grub-probe.
On VT4, grub-install complains that it is unable to determine the BIOS drive of the root partition and that I should check the map file, which I can't because there is none... > > - a regression: now xfburn finds the CDR drive only when started > > by root. /dev/cd0 is owned by root:cdrom, and the standard user is > > member of the cdrom group. > > Is /dev/cd0 readable and/or writable by the group? Does changing that > fix it? This will be determined by devfs rules in /etc. It was rw for the group. chmod o+rw or a+w did not help either. > > and the notification area in the panel is only a vertcal bar. > > Obvious question, but were any applications running that would > actually display something there? If I install+run something like > psi-plus, then it correctly displays there. Installed psi-plus and started it: Voila, a star in the notification area! > The nv driver should support at least *some* nVidia cards, perhaps > older and not integrated chipsets. I've started a Wiki page where we > can start to collect data on this: > https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_Hardware#Graphics_cards When I got some more time, I will test that dozen old NVidia cards in my trash bin ;-) and report the results. > The vesa fallback should be good enough for at least some uses. Sure, if 1024*768 or the text console is enough. Herbert -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141031162848.70611...@gmx.de
