Re: Competition (was: Ports & Packages ...)

[Jimmy Johansson <jimmy%Update.UU.SE@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:55:54PM +0200, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
> 
> I already caught some flak for crossposting to -users, so I'll snip
> all the advocacy bits and just hit a few points briefly.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> 
> >Second, I think you can. You just have to take a bit of care.
> >...
> >I actually built this machine a few weeks ago. It runs NetBSD 5.1 if I
> >disable ACPI and NetBSD current I could install without changing
> >anything, but it was unstable until I set "USB controller mode" to
> >FullSpeed and after that it is rock solid.
> 
> Good to hear.  What about 3D graphics acceleration, any problems
> there? That, and USB UMTS/3G modems is really the stuff I'm worrying
> about right now.

Well, I have

radeondrm0: Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080613
info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
info: [drm] Loading RS780 Microcode
info: [drm] Resetting GPU
info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs

and

raven$ glxgears
2967 frames in 5.0 seconds = 593.359 FPS

but I don't care that much about graphics acceleration, so I don't know
if that is good or bad, but it just worked out of the box.

I ran "Xorg -configure", added some keyboard stuff and that is the
config that I'm running with. This is current though.

That said, I don't have the latest and greatest video card, as I don't
know what I would use it for.

USB UMTS/3G I know nothing about yet, I have had no reason to get one.

> 
> 
> >I actually kind of run Plan9... Just for fun though. See cool above.
> 
> I'm trying it out this weekend.  :-)

I think more people should try other options once in a while to see what
other people are doing. Just because something doesn't get that much use
doesn't mean that they can't have good ideas. But I have always liked to
tinker with stuff and want something interesting, most people just want
to consume and have the latest and greatest.

Regards,

Jimmy
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