December 14, 2004
FreeSBIE results
Well, my FreeSBIE experiment was a qualified success. At first, I thought it was another heartbreak. I booted off the CD on two different machines, and in both cases, the X server came up just fine, but the mouse was frozen. So it was good to see the older, ATI All-in-Wonder card come up just fine, but it was still unfortunate that I couldn't get the mouse to work. So I tried a few other things. I left the machine switched in while it booted, but that didn't seem to help. But then I accidently moved the mouse while the X server was starting up, and, voila, I had a working mouse! Even switching out and back didn't break it. And it even worked on the older machine too - whoopee! So it looks like if I have the mouse send a message at some point during the boot phase, the FreeBSD mouse drivers recognize it just fine. I might play with it some more to see exactly what's up, and then I might retry the latest FreeBSD full CD-ROM and see what happens. Or maybe just try the installation option on the FreeSBIE one. FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economydel.icio.us | Digg it | Furl | Yahoo MyWeb | Create Social Bookmark Links
Posted by jdarnold at 04:06 PM | TrackBack
Track with co.mments
Track with co.mments Hi-
I just d/l'd & tried FreeSBIE & it's totally awesome!
Only odd thing that it excluded was no samba?
If you've installed it- were you then able to get samba & thus network capabilites with other PC's?
Other than that it is gorgeous...
One other distro worth mentioning & testing out is BeatrIX. I played with the live CD for one evening & decided to install it to an old 4GB Compaq drive I had tossed in a drawer. It is running flawlessly on that, hooked to an Epia ITX 5000 w/768SDRAM.
Tracy ;^)
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I didn't play with it enough to check out if it had Samba. If it doesn't, that would be a shame. That's one of the best parts of the Xandros distro I tried out - Samba worked out of the box!
I have beeing hearing lots of good things about BeatrIX, and downloaded the latest copy, but haven't tried it yet.
