A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
James L. Davis has created a new version of the x.org package that correctly deals with the mouse and with TrueType fonts.
If you haven’t heard of what xorg is, visit freedesktop.org and see – it’s a de facto/drop-in replacement for XFree86. It’s not a significantly different package at this point, but it may be, by the next release.
Slow news in the past 24 hours or so, so I’ll post about Dru Lavigne’s always entertaining column, of which the most recent version has a good collection of links.
Matthew Dillon has updated cvs to version 1.12.9, for reasons listed in the commit message.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added the re(4) network device to the GENERIC kernel.
Matthew Dillon posted that he has made changes allowing a laptop to boot on non-AC power.
I’ve finished converting the FreeBSD Handbook over; it’s not currently built into the DragonFly website, though it’s available on my build machine.
If your laptop running DragonFly doesn’t want to boot while on battery power, try this in /boot/loader.conf:
set debug.acpi.disabled="acad thermal"
Taken from a suggestion by YONETANI Tomokazu.
Martin P. Hellwig found that Java Web Start did not work on DragonFly; the fix is to find $USER/.java/.deployment/deployment.properties and
change ‘FreeBSD’ to ‘DragonFly’.
David Rhodus updated pkg_install to deal appropriately with the name “1.1-CURRENT” for those with very new systems.
Scott Ullrich committed OpenSSH 3.8.1.p1 into the base system today. You will need to do a full makeworld/buildworld to upgrade.
Incidentally, congratulations to Scott Ullrich on getting a ‘commit bit’, meaning he can now add code directly to the project. You may know Scott from his previous work on the Installer.
Jonas Sundstrom posted a link to a site about real dragonflies, noting they do not bite or sting. Alexander Leidinger also posted a link to a German site.
(I will note I’ve been rammed in the head by dragonflies – that, you notice.)
Matthew Dillon has added NDIS support, enabling a variety of network cards on DragonFly. (This is also known as “Project Evil”) He also added a README describing how to get a Windows driver working.
During a conversation about ssh, ‘esmith’ pointed at a HOWTO on tcpwrappers. (It’s a Mac site – how strange!)
Matthew Dillon noted that a full make buildworld/kernel and installworld/kernel is needed on the next update, due to a number of changes he has made.
If you haven’t updated recently to catch the scheduler changes, you may want to do this in any case.
Matthew Dillon commited the start of MBUF/cluster accounting, plus some LWKT changes to accomodate NDIS.
There were a few problems with the recent 802.11 commits; they appear fixed, but doing a make quickworld will probably not complete. Try a make buildworld on your next update, and it should sail through clearly.
Erik Paulsen Skaalerud now has daily snapshots of source and dfports available on his site. If you are setting up a new DragonFly install, this shortcuts having to update via CVSup.
There’s been over 50 commits made in the past two days, including such things as nvidia-driver improvements from Emiel Kollof, a pkill import from Chris Pressey, and wicontrol updates from Joerg Sonennberger.
Matthew Dillon’s made a number of improvements to the booter code, so (re)installing a master boot record may help those having trouble with the basic boot system.