<p>On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:06 +0000, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl <span><<a href="mailto:rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com">rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<p>On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh <<a href="mailto:masoom.shaikh@gmail.com">masoom.shaikh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p>Hello,<br /><br />Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed with my experience <br /><br />problem # 1<br />The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts<br />Hinting -> Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96......this is has worked for all combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1<br /><br />problem # 2<br />I observed that both FreeBSD8.0-RC1 and FreeBSD8.0-RC2, simply freeze due to no reason. The pain is I don't get a core dump. When it freezes the only option is to hard boot by reseting the power. This might need more information to guess the cause. I will give basic info. This is Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop, with Intel Core2. My suspect mostly goes to wpi driver, no proof, just my gut feeling.<br /><br />problem # 3<br />starting with 8.0 wpi driver no longer is the interface, wlanX is to be created. this is not news, but every time I manually create the wlan0 interface and spawn wpa_supplicant. This shuould be automatic, as I have followed the guidelines of rc.conf(5). I can provide output of rc_debug="YES" if someone is willing. How can i install all files under /etc from the source ?<br /><br />Masoom Shaikh<br /><br /></p>
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<p>Regarding #2, I suggest disabling ACPI. I also had system freezes happen on my computer until I did this but this has always been an ongoing issue with my system and I lose nothing by turning it off.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br /><span style="color: #888888;">Rusty Nejdl<br /><a href="http://networking.ringofsaturn.com">http://networking.ringofsaturn.com</a></span></p>
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how do we disable acpi ? is it hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot ? if it is I guess I shud set it to 1 in loader.conf, it still remains 0<br /></blockquote>
<p>You can disable <acronym class="ACRONYM">APIC</acronym> support with <tt class="LITERAL">hint.apic.0.disabled="1"</tt> in <tt class="FILENAME">loader.conf</tt>.</p>
<p>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />Rusty Nejdl<br />http://networking.ringofsaturn.com</p>