PC-BSD 8.2-BETA1 (Problems)

[Fatmice]

Report your problems here. This thread will be sticked until release of 8.2-RC1

[seanbruno]

Because I didn't have a USB Memstick that was big enough for the USB install image I used an external Maxtor 750GB USB drive for the installation.

PC-BSD 8.1 installs fine when I dd the image to this disk, however the BETA 1 candidate hangs during the kernel boot up sequence when / is remounted or some such thing.

As a note PC-BSD 9.0 seems to suffer a similar fate as well. Let me know what logs and such I should post for your amusement.

[seanbruno]

Was able to get 8.2 RC1 installed on my T400 today. GREAT SUCCESS.

Looks like a lot of improvements in the X display configuration tools and general performance improvements.

Regressions that I found:

Display Settings does not permit me to configure second monitor "leftof" or "rightof" my primary display. It does allow me to configure the second monitor "Below" or "Above". The display is automatically re-sized and it works great.

Display Settings does not allow me to configure my two monitors with two different resolutions. Not sure if this is a limitation of Xorg at the moment or something different.
--
vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x210e17aa chip=0x95c41002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
device = 'ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 (M82-S)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
--

Trying to invoke xrandr directly on the machine exhibits the following:
seanbru@pcbsd-1861 /usr/home/seanbru]$ xrandr --output LVDS --auto --pos 0x0 --output VGA-0 --auto --right-of LVDS
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1920 (desired size 3360x1080)

[Fatmice]

Have a try with my xorg.conf. I have two lcd displays, one at native 1680x1050, and the other 1280x1024. Use only the portion that you need. I'm assuming you are spanning across two screens under an X instance.

# Xorg.conf file generated for PC-BSD

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
# FontPath "/Programs/fonts/"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "False"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LCD0"
VendorName "ACER"
ModelName "ACER V223W"
DisplaySize 473 296
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "LCD1"
VendorName "DELL"
ModelName "DELL 1704FPT"
DisplaySize 338 270
Option "RightOf" "LCD0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Port 1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI X300 (RV370)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# PCBSD options
Option "CPPIOMode" "yes"
# My options for dualhead
#Option "MergedFB" "True"
#Option "MergedXinerma" "True"
#Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
#Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" "False"
#Option "MergedNonRectangular" "True"
Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "LCD0"
Option "Monitor-VGA-0" "LCD1"
# My options for 3D acceleration
Option "DRI" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "AccelDFS" "True"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
Option "ColorTiling" "True"
Option "GARTSize" "64"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "BigScreen"
Device "ATI Port 1"
Monitor "LCD0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
Virtual 2960 1050
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "ATI Dual Monitor"
Screen "BigScreen"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

[kmoore134]

We'd probably need a picture or more details about the specific point at which it hangs. Maybe this
has something to do with USB not being probed quick enough to mount /?

[seanbruno]

We'd probably need a picture or more details about the specific point at which it hangs. Maybe this
has something to do with USB not being probed quick enough to mount /?

Ah, you don't have a USB HD at your disposal? Or is does this look like a failure of my specific craptop hardware?

[Fatmice]

Thread is now closed. 8.2 RC is now available for testing.

See here http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=14045