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Category: Device support

Posted on 2009/02/262009/02/27
em(4) updated; adds a module

Sepherosa Ziehau has updated em(4) to version 6.9.6, with some interesting improvements.  It does possible require loading a module now.  He also has more patches to test.

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly, Heads Up!
Posted on 2009/02/232009/02/22
em(4) update

Do you use em(4)?  Sepherosa Ziehau has an improved version for testing.  What’s changed?  Dunno.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/01/15
Disc burning made better

Matthew Dillon came up with a patch that seems to fix problems with memory alignment when doing tasks like burning optical media.  Try it if you’ve had this problem, or wait, as it will probably be committed soon.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/13
Dmitry vs. ACPI

Dmitry Komissaroffis doing a very useful thing and producing code to support more ACPI stuff – specifically, HPET timers, the mysterious Smart Battery, and Asus systems.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/12
SDHC support?

Hasso Tepper is looking for other people with experience and/or interest in porting FreeBSD’s mmc(4) support for SD cards greater than 2G in size.  Contact him is that describes you.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/082009/01/07
Stick installs now possible

Michael Neumann came up with an interesting script that creates a bootable DragonFly USB drive.  This makes it possible to boot up and install on a netbook that lacks a normal CDROM, for instance.

2 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/07
What’s happening to ISA

Sascha Wildner posted a clarification: ISA and EISA support in any card will be dropped after the 2.2 release is out.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/042009/01/04
Goodbye, ISA

Are you using any ISA-based network cards?  Sepherosa Ziehau is planning to remove support very soon after the 2.2 release; speak up if this is a problem.   Or, spend a few dollars and buy a card made in the last 10 years.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2009/01/032009/01/03
age(4) too

Sepherosa Ziehau has also added age(4) support, a network chip common to Asus systems.  Load the kernel module and report your results.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/12/272008/12/27
Another EeePC

Michael Neumann reported success booting DragonFly on his Eee PC 1000H, though the wireless/wired network drivers don’t work yet.

2 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/12/152008/12/16
Eee work

Dmitry Komissaroff has a patch that will get DragonFly booting with ACPI on an Asus Eee 701, though just why hasn’t been figured out yet.

Update: new patch

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/12/072008/12/05
Say yes to ciss(4)

If you have a ciss(4) SCSI-3 card in your computer, Sascha Wildner has a patch for you to try out.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/25
HAL comes to DragonFly

Thanks to the efforts of Hasso Tepper, support for the FreeDesktop HAL (hardware abstraction layer) using the bleeding-edge versions of DragonFly and pkgsrc is available.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/21
NVIDIA driver test

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a experimental version of the NVIDIA FreeBSD driver changed for DragonFly; the code is available without any support so it’s not as simple as a download, unfortunately.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/19
Now that’s fast

Sepherosa Ziehau has updated the Broadcom bge(4) network interface driver so that it apparently now goes as fast as possible; e.g. receiving at the full line rate of 1Gbps.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/172008/11/18
SATA ATAPI problems somewhat fixed

Hasso Tepper has made some fixes to SATA ATAPI code that fix some of the issues with SATA CD/DVD readers, though some issues remain.  Please test if you’ve got the hardware to match.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/112008/11/11
BSDTalk 162: Eeeeeeeeeeeeee

The newest BSDTalk is about trying various BSDs (including DragonFly) on a EeePC 900A.  Little netbooks are this close to being an acceptable price/performance combination for me…

Will Backman, the host, is going to be at MeetBSD, which is happening in 5 days…

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/07
ATI problem solved

I previously posted about Joe ‘Floid’ Kanowitz’s problem with the xorg driver for the ATI RS480 chipset.  It turns out he went and figured out a workaround.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/11/05
A specific xorg/radeon issue

Do you have a Radeon card with a RS480 chipset?  Joe ‘Floid’ Kanowitz noticed a problem when upgrading xorg; here’s his heads-up.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/10/29
DRM update to test

Hasso Tepper has posted a patch that brings DRM code in DragonFly to the very latest version, right out of the DRM repository.  Give it a try; it adds support for a number of recent chipsets that may have only worked poorly before.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support

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