Install notes for FreeBSD 8.1 - updated 20100811 These notes are for FreeBSD 8.1-i386 on an Amd 2 and 4-core machine + on install, there is no entry to enable linux.ko so the linux_f10 package fails. This is relatively trivial to fix + xorg does not have good defaults so it does not recognise keyboard, nor CTRL-ALT-BS work to exit. Documentation suggests to enable in /etc/rc.conf but this prevents refresh with nvidia. A good workaround is to put a complete xorg.conf with the following Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #Option "xinerama" "true" # not working now Option "AllowEmptyInput" "no" #Option "DontZap" "false" # not working in 7.4 EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection + To use sane with the epson DX7400 and perhaps even SX400 you need the sane-epkowa package, and just "usb" in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf Perhaps disable epson.conf + To give users access to scanner, best option is to use sudo scanimage... and something similar (perhaps GTK_LIBRARIES...) for xscanimage + linux-flashplugin with firefox 3.6.4 works marginally better than in 7.x. We still see the browser stalling from time to time, which is solved killing npviewer.bin -- or stray ld.so processes consuming all the RAM. + skype 2.0.0.72 works (I had a distribution available from an older system). It seems to work as long as you have an audio device configured. + webcamd requires libcuse4bsd (not present on the DVD image) Enable webcamd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/devfs.rules + http://www.rockafunk.org/InstallWebcamd.html has instructions, you need to set permissions for the devices adding this to /etc/devfs.rules [system=10] add path 'video*' mode 0666 and also /etc/rc.conf:devfs_system_ruleset="system" + cupsd works but you really need to install gutenprint. Also need to change permissions to the device adding this to /etc/devfs.rules [system=10] add path 'ulpt*' mode 0664 user cups group cups (using devd.conf ?) + install gutenprint together with cups for device drivers + acroread9 dies within seconds as firefox plugin. Better use acroread8 + ppp with pppoe install a route with the wrong interface. Workaround is to put these three lines in ppp.conf add default HISADDR shell route delete default shell route add default -interface INTERFACE (one alone does not suffice, the 'default' entry would not have and address and packets are sent with 0.0.0.0 as source).