Installation of FreeBSD on Dell D610

发表于:2007-06-09来源:作者:点击数: 标签:
新换了笔记本,自然要折腾一下了。 I installedFreeBSD5.3 on my Dell Latitude D610. Most of the procedures wereaccording to documents on the internet, eg. the Handbook and forumdiscussions. Yet there're something specific. Here are them. Scre
新换了笔记本,自然要折腾一下了。

I installed FreeBSD5.3 on my Dell Latitude D610. Most of the procedures were aclearcase/" target="_blank" >ccording to documents on the internet, eg. the Handbook and forum discussions. Yet there're something specific. Here are them.

Screen resolution:
It seems that intel 915GM/910GML is not well supported in FreeBSD5.3/Xorg6.7. So I have to use a "vesa" driver with 1024x768 supported at maximum. Not that elegant on my 1400x1050 screen, but I can stand it.
似乎网上有那么几个老外已经搞定了i915的问题,但是我折腾了老半天就是不行。升级到Xorg6.8.2也还是不支持i915,看来只好静静地等待6.8.3了。

Console beep:
How to silence the annoying console beep? There are a few ways here. Many articles on the net says we can use "set nobeep" in tcsh. I'm not sure. xset may also help in X. I havent tried that, either. Actually I managed to disable that beep with the Sound item in GNOME's Preferences.

Mouse wheel:
I am using a usb mouse and at first its rolling wheel did not work in X. Two files were changed at last to make it function.
xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
...
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMaping" "4 5"
...
End Section
usbd.conf
devece "Mouse"
...
attach "usr/sbin/moused -z 4 -p ...

Localization:
It took me several days working on localization. The Chinese fonts were not graceful. Then simsun was added, yet the fonts looked murky. It was said to be a counter-product of antialias on Chinese fonts. Finally I made it by override the font configurations with my ~/.fonts.conf file, in which antialias of several Chinese fonts were set to false. Similar .fonts.conf file can be found everywhere on the net.
开始一直用的startx,后来改用gdm后出现了中文输入切换无效的情况,原来是gdm绕过了/etc/csh.login那套东西。后来把相关的东西写到~/.xprofile后搞定。

Sound:
Cause it is an intel 82801 card, so compile the kernel with
device sound
devece snd_ich
That would be ok.


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