Someone works in AMD’s Linux driver with FreeBSD via binary emulation, but no results yet, beside I don’t know why AMD just doesn’t do what nVidia does.

nVidia driver works via linux emulator now.

The idea is, to create a multiboot laptop with FreeBSD and XP.

Regards,

Jerry
Amsterdam, Netherlands

“no 3D since AMD/ATI doesn’t provide drivers for FreeBSD and *BSD in General”

Can’t you use AMD’s Linux driver with FreeBSD via binary emulation?

- how i can enable power saving and cpufreq on freebsd and if it workds for my Aspire?
- what is the best solution for touchpad? (i want scrooling on pad and scrooling on 4 diraction button)
- is there someone writing a FreeBSD driver for Broadcom Wireless driver based on rev. enge. documentation from linux driver or where can i search for a project like that?(i whant to help)
- when i log in, my keybord is not responding on first touch of any button and it works normal after that. Why is this happening, is not a big problem but is there a fix?

About using linux drivers in freebsd by an extra layer, i admit this is a solution, but it will place freebsd in a shadow! Best solution is writing native drivers and soportting USB bus as much as posible!

Thanks for your help!

The best one use ACPI is IBM thinkpad laptops.

If your WLAN is from broadcom check my blog about it here http://blog.wearab.net/arab/2006/12/22/howto-freebsd-ndisgen-with-acer-aspire-5100-5102-wlmi-with-broadcom-wlan-chipset-4318-rev-2/

As for CardReader I didn’t try to make it work since I never used

As for sysctl here is my sysctl.conf entries for the laptops in general too.

# Better time counters, especially for laptops (honors power saving modes)
kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast # If available

One more good thing,

There is a new project for emulating Linux drivers on FreeBSD, first tests are made with Linux webcam drivers.

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

Maybe this some way to port certain usb-multimedia-devices to FreeBSD.

So now you can install them from the ports too

http://www.freshports.org/devel/linux-kmod-compat/

Add new port for linux-kmod-compat - emulation layer to build
linux device drivers as FreeBSD kld modules. Details at

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html

Two ports for webcam drivers that use this package are coming in
a matter of minutes.

NOTES:
+ This is only for 6.x and 7.x, no support planned for earlier versions.
+ At the moment only i386 but have patches for 64-bit architectures
that should be committed soon.
+ This port installs a file in /usr/share/mk . After some discussion
on the ports list this seems, to be the most reasonable thing to do.
portlint complains about it.

http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod/

This port builds a kernel module with the ‘gspca’ USB webcam driver
using the adaptation layer in devel/linux-kmod-compat
The web site for the original gspca driver (for Linux) is
http://mxhaard.free.fr/index.html

http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod/

This port builds a kernel module with the ‘ov511′ USB webcam driver
using the adaptation layer in devel/linux-kmod-compat
The sources are taken from the Linux kernel 2.6.x

Enjoy it

What is “device ehci” for? Can i use my usb port as usual?
Is there a way to make the CardReader works in freebsd?
Did you made some fine tunnig with sysctl or something else!

I found this blog very useful! Thanks!

I faced the same problem it’s related to USB devices in the kernel.

Try to disable ehci device and let me know if this fixed it for you.

#device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)