ATI Radeon drivers

Blah blah blah. The ATI Radeon driver for my video card doesn't work with a simple emerge. I may have to compile the kernel again. Blah blah blah. I'll just use VESA for now. Blah blah blah. It's slow but it works.

ping!!! I'm alive goddamit

My fucking via-rhine NIC now works using this fucking vanilla Linux kernel. I can now proceed installing xorg, fluxbox, and other stuff. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Linux via-rhine support

Not again. I thought they've fixed this stuff already. Linux doesn't support my VIA Rhine NIC, even though I've disabled ACPI already. The other Intel NIC works perfectly fine though.

Lemme recompile the kernel using vanilla-sources. This better work. :)

meh

With all this hoopla about K/Ubuntu, one would think that this is a revolutionary distro of some sort, sent by the messiah.

Meh. I'm gonna replace my other PC with Gentoo. :)

I hope I can resume my Xen experiments

My experiments on Xen was stopped a few months ago since the amd64 machine that I was working on was needed by the company.

Fortunately, I now have two CPUs sitting at my desk right now. I'll be installing Kubuntu on the other CPU so that I can use it for "official" work. I've been using it as a prototype box for our network appliance, but I figured that I can maxmize its use by using VMWare instead (hence the decision to use Kubuntu, even though NetBSD already has a stable Xen support; VMWare doesn't have a native port for BSD). Since the prototype will now be running inside VMWare, I can now use Xen kernel for the host OS. Weeeee...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

I've just contacted Kip Macy, the person responsible for xen-i386, so that he can guide me in porting Xen to amd64.

Very cool. He has just requested the admin to create a FreeBSD Perforce account for me. I'll now be contributing code to The FreeBSD Project shortly. This is so cooooool... =)

My first contribution to FreeBSD

It's been quite some time since I've last updated my blog. I ought to make it a point to post at least once a week. :)

Anyway, I'm proud to have my small contribution committed to FreeBSD. This is the first of many contributions to come:

• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103681


• http://www.freshports.org/databases/php-sqlite3/


• (additional contributors list)

I've been itching to port Xen FreeBSD domU to amd64 (x86_64) for quite some time now. Very exciting task and lots of new things to learn. If only I can find enough free time. We've been in a crunch mode for quite some time now-- I barely even have time to shave and do my laundry. Now that SolidGate (a firewall/router product, aka Project Chopsuey) has been delivered, I'll see what I can do. =)

libraries

Geez, I'm forced to hunt down a bunch of library dependencies. Heck, I can't even run ldd:

/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (126)

Anyway, this is fun.

Slackware

This is my first time to use Linux Slackware. Funny how I was initiated to this distro using FreeBSD-- It's like being introduced to the light side of The Force by a Sith Lord! :)

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Linux i386 binary emulation on FreeBSD AMD64

I'm using an AMD Athlon 64 processor in my PC and I have long been dissapointed by that fact that a large number of applications in the FreeBSD ports collection works in i386 only. Initially, I planned to emulate an x86 PC so that I can compile them, but I later realized that doing 32-bit on a 64-bit arch is uhm... a bit stupid.

But anyway, I'll recompile the kernel today and see if I can run i386 Linux binaries on FreeBSD. One of the applications that I hope to run is Zend Studio. Zend Studio is (apparently) a Java app, and it requires libXaw, libXt, and other libraries that conflicts with xorg-libraries. Dunno yet how to proceed. I also hope that I'll be able to run Open Office.

I'll be following the instructions published at http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/linux32.html.

Hello world!

I'm new to FreeBSD (or relatively new anyway) so I've decided to keep notes, bookmarks, and pointers to useful documentation. As I become more familiar with FreeBSD, I hope that my notes and experiences along the way will be valuable to others in the community.