Then we won't have to use that text-script kludge of an installer that hasn't seemingly been updated since the 2.x era. I really look forward to the day when both graphics AND audio can work on a FreeBSD system without a PhD/ guru being hired to set them up.
They already do work. At least for me with a cmipci-based soundcard and a nvidia geforce4 for graphics. It could be your hardware combination: some stuff will just not work. Same luck for Linux and Windows though.
The installer is acknowledged as way too old even for the FreeBSD team, but it still works. OTOH i've never been able to install Debian, i just can't figure the installer. Now i use Gentoo, it didn't even have an installer, go figure.
I remember when i first tried Linux, when the 2.4 kernel series began, getting sound out of it was a real mess. I didn't know if i had to get OSS or what! I managed to make it work after three weeks or so. Now, with kernel 2.6, it works like a charm! Perhaps it was just my ignorance back then... or bad luck, some hardware just won't work.
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Then we won't have to use that text-script kludge of an installer that hasn't seemingly been updated since the 2.x era. I really look forward to the day when both graphics AND audio can work on a FreeBSD system without a PhD/ guru being hired to set them up. They already do work. At least for me with a cmipci-based soundcard and a nvidia geforce4 for graphics. It could be your hardware combination: some stuff will just not work. Same luck for Linux and Windows though. The installer is acknowledged as way too old even for the FreeBSD team, but it still works. OTOH i've never been able to install Debian, i just can't figure the installer. Now i use Gentoo, it didn't even have an installer, go figure. I remember when i first tried Linux, when the 2.4 kernel series began, getting sound out of it was a real mess. I didn't know if i had to get OSS or what! I managed to make it work after three weeks or so. Now, with kernel 2.6, it works like a charm! Perhaps it was just my ignorance back then... or bad luck, some hardware just won't work.