RPi + FreeBSD + Xorg + XBMC player ?

[Hellmuth Michaelis]

Am 30.05.2014 um 13:16 schrieb Christopher J. Ruwe <cjr at cruwe.de>:

> On Thu, 29 May 2014 01:03:04 +0000
> "Scott, Brian" <brian.scott4 at det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-arm at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sulev-Madis
>> Silber (ketas) Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2014 12:18 PM To: Marek
>> Salwerowicz Cc: freebsd-arm at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: RPi + FreeBSD + Xorg + XBMC player ?
>> 
>>> On 2014-05-28 00:32, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in installing the X Server,
>>>> simple window manager and XBMC software under FreeBSD?
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to use my RPi as XBMC media player.
>>> 
>>> Should be possible. I've heard that X works there, but I haven't
>>> tried it by myself. 
>> 
>> Has anyone actually got X running recently? I've just been trying to
>> build a few packages on the Pi and it looks like things have moved on
>> since the various tutorials on the web were written. The scfb video
>> driver is included in ports now but  other broken-ness in xorg-server
>> (dri) stops it being built.
>> 
>> Haven't even started trying to get applications like XBMC going.
>> 
>> Brian
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> 
> My experiences with the RPi are that bad that I consider the setup as
> unusable:
> 
> - ports do not compile (PostgreSQL)
> - ports compile but coredump (mit-krb5)
> - machine crashes frequently
> 
> The only instance runnuing so far is an RPi setup for bind99 and
> isc-dhcpd. I cannot assert that the RPi is at fault, could be the
> SD-Card.
> 
> I have given up, though, $ENOTIME.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Christopher
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Just a datapoint, i cannot quite confirm this, i have a rpi running:

FreeBSD pisix.xx.yy.zz 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #5 r259179M: Mon Dec 30 12:55:26 CET 2013     root at vfbcur.xx.yy.zz:/usr/obj-rpi/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B-CUST  arm

as a router to sixxs. uptime says:

2:37PM  up 71 days,  2:27, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.06, 0.07

I had to apply the USB DMA patches to get acceptable network performance and - you are right - some ports don’t compile (i.e. pftop) or crash (don’t remeber which one it was) but all in all it runs now for half a year without noticable problems.

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