FreeBSD on the Mini

[Henrik Andersen]

On 2/27/06, Marco Righele <marco_righele at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD on my mac mini (it's the second try actually),
> and I have a few issues that I haven't been able to solve by myself.
> First of all, I'm unable to start xorg.Whenever I launch xorgcfg,
> startx, xdm etc., I get the following error.
>
> dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.so: Unsupported relocation type 6
> in non-PLT relocations
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.so
> (EE) RADEON: Failed to load module "fb" (loader failed, 7)
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> The kernel is compiled from source. Besides the debugging options
> removed, it's a vanilla GENERIC.
> I think this is related to xorg 6.9, because the first time I tried
> FreeBSD/ppc, about one or two months ago,
> I didn't notice this problem. Should I try with a 6.0-RELEASE ports tree ?
>
> Second question: is there any audio support ? It looks like sound
> related code is not compiled in the kernel or as modules.
> In any case, I wouldn't know what driver to add to the kernel config
> file, given that pciconf doesn't show any sound device.
>
> Finally: how do I set OpenFirmware to boot FreeBSD automatically ?
> I wrote
>
> setenv boot-device hd:2,\loader
> setenv boot-file hd:4
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be enough to have it boot by itself (
> a simple "boot" from the console will work though ).
> I guess I should set "boot-command" to the right value too, but I don't
> know what it is. Any idea ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco
>
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Hi Marco

I can't be of much help regarding your Xorg and sound issues, but you could
probably set auto-boot?=true in OF.
This is just a thought, my mac's power supply is fried so I have no way of
verifying if it works.

Regards,
Henrik