Re: Bug#767474: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64, Kernel 10.1: OK, but still quirks
Hi,
Many thanks for testing on real hardware.
Adding my comments below; I'll further investigate some of the issues
myself, but anyone else is welcome to look into these or the other
points in the original mail:
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.
> Putting /boot on a primary partition did not help.
This needs to be investigated using grub-install and grub-probe by hand.
It may also be worth trying to move /lib/modules into /boot/ then
creating a symlink /lib/modules -> /boot/modules.
> - 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.
> - in XFCE, all menu entries or buttons to shutdown, reboot etc are greyed,
FWIW I don't see this bug on my own kfreebsd-amd64 sid/jessie install.
> 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.
> - in the installer, DHCP did not work.
Fixed in sid AIUI: http://lists.debian.org/20141031114225.2a0918b1@toshi
> So, kFreeBSD on the desktop is usable after some manual intervention, if you
> do not use a NVidia graphics card.
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
The vesa fallback should be good enough for at least some uses.
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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