FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

[Masoom Shaikh-3]

Hello,

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

problem # 1
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
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

problem # 2
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.

problem # 3
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 ?

Masoom Shaikh
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On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh  wrote:  

Hello,

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

problem # 1
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
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

problem # 2
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.

problem #
3
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 ?

Masoom Shaikh

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.

Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com
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[Roman Neuhauser]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:33:00PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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
>
> problem # 1
> The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts.

i don't use kde, sorry.

> problem # 2
> 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.

it might be the kbdmux, or hald.  these two things were troublemakers
during my recent upgrade from 7.x to 9.0.  kbdmux is in GENERIC, but
causes missed interrupts, which may make the machine appear dead.
hald is used by xorg.  hald may spin busily when it's out of sync with
the kernel.
 
> problem # 3
> 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.

my wlan0 is created for wpi0 (I start the wifi with
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant onestart wlan0):

wlans_wpi0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0="NOAUTO DHCP WPA"

what's in your rc.conf?

> How can i install all files under /etc from the source ?

cd /usr/src && mergemaster -i

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[Norbert Papke-2]

On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote:

> problem # 1
> 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
> 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

My guess is that "print/freetype2" is not built with anti-aliasing support.  
Rebuild it specifying "WITH_LCD_FILTERING" .

See also http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139603

Cheers,

-- Norbert Papke.
   npapke@...


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[Masoom Shaikh-3]

>
> my wlan0 is created for wpi0 (I start the wifi with
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant onestart wlan0):
>
> wlans_wpi0=wlan0
> ifconfig_wlan0="NOAUTO DHCP WPA"
>
> what's in your rc.conf?
>

wlans_wpi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP WPA"
do I really need to put wlan0 in quotes ? cud that be the problem ? will try
now removing them


>
> > How can i install all files under /etc from the source ?
>
> cd /usr/src && mergemaster -i
>

thanks, i was thinking my /etc was fu*ked
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[Masoom Shaikh-3]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@...>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> 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
>
> problem # 1
> 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
> 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
>
> problem # 2
> 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.
>
> problem # 3
> 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 ?
>
> Masoom Shaikh
>
>  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.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rusty Nejdl
> http://networking.ringofsaturn.com
>

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
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:06 +0000, Masoom Shaikh  wrote:

 On Fri, Nov
6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl  wrote:

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530,
Masoom Shaikh  wrote:  

Hello,

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

problem # 1
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
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

problem # 2
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.

problem # 3
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
?

Masoom Shaikh

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.


Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com [3]   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

You can disable APIC
support with hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf.


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html


Sincerely,
Rusty
Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com

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[Masoom Shaikh-3]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Norbert Papke <npapke@...> wrote:

> On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote:
>
> > problem # 1
> > 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
> > 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
>
> My guess is that "print/freetype2" is not built with anti-aliasing support.
> Rebuild it specifying "WITH_LCD_FILTERING" .
>
> See also http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139603
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Norbert Papke.
>   npapke@...
>
>
> http://saveournet.ca
> Protecting your Internet's level playing field
>

this time I reverted back to FreeBSD-7.2 untill 8.0
I have same observations, KDE4 based apps are not anti-aliased, but GTK
based are, since fonts look excellant in Firefox-3.5.5
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