On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:32 -0400, PJ wrote: > I have (supposedly, as I am told by my bootup) upgraded to 7.2 > Wonderful. But how do i make this thing work. I've managed to do it on > an amd64 on an ACER Travelmate 4400 running at 1600mhz. > This box runs on 3ghz; Xorg comes up and the mouse is dead. Flashplayer9
This is probably due to a buggy bios, try to disable "USB legacy support", it should fix the problem (at least on mine) > with linux-emulator f8 and all the tweaks does not work, acroread9 does > not either, Flash or Acroread have nothing to do with FreeBSD. Emulation is always something "hazardous", it might work, it might not. > hal is useless. I've tried turning off the option AllowEmptyInput to define "useless" ? It works like a charm here. Did you read the FAQ on freebsd.org/gnome ? > off; i've tried starting hal - and when I run startx, the configuration > file is the default built-in... I don't understand what the hell is > going on... None of the solutions on google seem to work either... > oh, but there is some sunlight in neverneverland... I can boot and I can > install all kinds of files - funny, I don't want to play with this crap... > and I certainly am not going to reinstall after all I have gone > through... If I do reinstall, it will be another OS. > If it all works on amd64, what's wrong with i386? > I think it's time to switch to something more reliable. > -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: [email protected] @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
