Install notes for FreeBSD 8.1 - updated 20100811

These notes are for FreeBSD 8.1-i386 on an Amd 2 and 4-core machine

+ on install, there is no entry to enable linux.ko so the linux_f10
  package fails. This is relatively trivial to fix

+ xorg does not have good defaults so it does not recognise keyboard,
  nor CTRL-ALT-BS work to exit. Documentation suggests to enable
  in /etc/rc.conf but this prevents refresh with nvidia.
  A good workaround is to put a complete xorg.conf with the following
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen  0       "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "ServerFlags"
        #Option "xinerama" "true"       # not working now
        Option "AllowEmptyInput" "no"
        #Option "DontZap" "false"       # not working in 7.4
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    EndSection


+ To use sane with the epson DX7400 and perhaps even SX400 you need
  the sane-epkowa package, and just "usb" in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
  Perhaps disable epson.conf

+ To give users access to scanner, best option is to use sudo scanimage...
  and something similar (perhaps GTK_LIBRARIES...) for xscanimage

+ linux-flashplugin with firefox 3.6.4 works marginally better than in 7.x.
  We still see the browser stalling from time to time, which is solved
  killing npviewer.bin -- or stray ld.so processes consuming all the RAM.

+ skype 2.0.0.72 works (I had a distribution available from an older
  system). It seems to work as long as you have an audio device configured.

+ webcamd requires libcuse4bsd (not present on the DVD image)
  Enable webcamd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/devfs.rules

+ http://www.rockafunk.org/InstallWebcamd.html has instructions,
  you need to set permissions for the devices adding this to /etc/devfs.rules
	[system=10]
	add path 'video*' mode 0666
  and also
	  /etc/rc.conf:devfs_system_ruleset="system" 


+ cupsd works but you really need to install gutenprint.
  Also need to change permissions to the device adding this
  to /etc/devfs.rules
	[system=10]
	add path 'ulpt*' mode 0664 user cups group cups

  (using devd.conf ?)

+ install gutenprint together with cups for device drivers

+ acroread9 dies within seconds as firefox plugin. Better use acroread8

+ ppp with pppoe install a route with the wrong interface. Workaround
  is to put these three lines in ppp.conf

        add default HISADDR
        shell route delete default
        shell route add default -interface INTERFACE

  (one alone does not suffice, the 'default' entry would not have and
  address and packets are sent with 0.0.0.0 as source).