Looking forward to this

[tehnad]

Hello to the BSD world. I have been a Linux user for a couple of years and played with FreeBSD 5.0 awhile back. I really didn't do much so I never got the feel of it. I am glad that someone('s) got together this user friendly version (thus far). I have just installed PC-BSD on a Toshiba Satelite and had only one issue thus far. The installer crashed on me reguardless of the options I chose. Didn't matter if I tried to run without ACPI enabled or any of the other 6 options. I looked here to the forums and found people having the same issue in different ways.

The solution, I unplugged my external USB mouse I had plugged in (the pad upsets me sometimes) and tried again. It worked and now I am here posting to the mods. I am not sure if this is a bug being worked on in 1.3 but it seems to be there none the less.

Thanks for taking the time to create what seems to be a quite fun OS. I am looking forward to learning from you all and will continue posting if I have any issues getting everything up to speed. It is also nice to see a section dedicated to laptop help. Lord knows it is needed.

-tehnad-

[dracheflieger]

Glad to have you here. Welcome.

[TerryP]

Greetings.

What model of Satelite was it any way? I remember the A105-S2061 was total crap for BSD.

[pcbsdusr]

Welcome mate!

Please search through our bug database here http://bugs.pcbsd.org/ and post that bug if it aint there yet.

Many thanks! :)

[tehnad]

Thanks for the welcoming. My computer is a p35 s611 satelite and everything is going fair at the moment. It will take me a couple of days to get sorted through everything so I can find missing drivers and see what else I am missing. PC-BSD seems to be running fairly stable at the moment with only my graphics card running a little warmer under this OS than any of the others. It is not enough to worry about and when I get the stupid ATI drivers installed, I am sure that this will go away also.

I am sure that this next part is better suited for the lounge but since I have this thread opened, I would like to start learning about BSD a little more indepth. I have been going to school for the last year programming in C++ and will be starting Java this Fall. I am wanting to learn how to incorporate OS scripting better and start helping on the development of some of this stuff. I am multibooting my laptop at the moment with Windows, Linux, and PC-BSD so that I really have no worries of being completely without (unless I dump the HD). So what can I do to help or better yet, were would be a good place to start?

[T-Keith]

My computer won't boot when anything USB is connected, I wonder if that's related?

[pcbsdusr]

have you checked if a "boot from usb device" option is enabled?

And check also the boot order.

I always set my PCs to boot HD first, before any other media. I can change that if i need to install an OS.

I cannot count the times i got stupidified in front of a PC reading an eror mesage that says it cannot boot from the disk before remembering sometimes i had a floppy drive inserted or something similar... :D

[tehnad]

The way that I have my laptop set-up currently is to boot from cd first. I have just finished successfully reinstalling PC-BSD for the third time on this laptop. No matter what I changed in the Bios and no matter the options I chose during the installer boot, everything would freese and I would have to do a hard boot. Unplugging my externel usb mouse from the laptop fixed this issue just fine.

Now that the system is installed I have made no changes past default and am able to boot the machine with my external usb mouse plugged in. This does not seem to create any issue with booting or powering down. I'm thinking its in the installer. But what the hell, I just put BSD on a freakin laptop and it has a better than expected display along with no over heating issues. I am curious about what I need to do to get my hyper threading working and getting the ATI driver loaded to clean things up a bit.

[antik]

The way that I have my laptop set-up currently is to boot from cd first. I have just finished successfully reinstalling PC-BSD for the third time on this laptop. No matter what I changed in the Bios and no matter the options I chose during the installer boot, everything would freese and I would have to do a hard boot. Unplugging my externel usb mouse from the laptop fixed this issue just fine.

Now that the system is installed I have made no changes past default and am able to boot the machine with my external usb mouse plugged in. This does not seem to create any issue with booting or powering down. I'm thinking its in the installer. But what the hell, I just put BSD on a freakin laptop and it has a better than expected display along with no over heating issues. I am curious about what I need to do to get my hyper threading working and getting the ATI driver loaded to clean things up a bit.

Hyper threading is security hole and it is disabled in FreeBSD anyway. Follow these instructions (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=4382&highlight=ati) and you got ATI open source drivers with 3D acceleration working.

[DarkStarAeon]

My computer won't boot when anything USB is connected, I wonder if that's related?

My Toshiba Satellite A105-S101 won't boot anything (WIndows, Linux, or BSD) if I have certain USB devices plugged in, like my Logitech USB Speakers. Even if it's set to boot from CD first, HD second, USB boot disabled.

weird.