Date: 03 Aug 2002 20:57:36 +0100 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> To: Seth Hieronymus <sethh@principia.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Just installed xscreensaver-gnome-4.05, no screensaver ingnomecontrolcenter and X has just hung Message-ID: <1028404658.346.48.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01c23b06$01647ac0$0200a8c0@hts2> References: <001601c23a93$91f6f680$0200a8c0@hts2> <1028368348.52147.24.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <000b01c23b06$01647ac0$0200a8c0@hts2>
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Hi Seth, Thanks for the reply. I think I've got the etherape problem figured out. I do have /dev/bpf compiled in the kernel, with the correspondingly correct permissions. The error is probably due to the fact that I attempted to run etherape as a non-root user, but only root has access to /dev/bpf. In X, I'll need to run etherape from the command line as root. I have two FBSD boxes running DNS, mail, ntp, ipfw, & nat to name a few, but I also have a couple of FBSD clients along with W2K boxes, so therein lies my hopes of installing some sort of screensaver on the client ones though. I notice that no-one (worryingly, including xscreensaver-gnome's maintainer) has even bothered to inform me of just what the problem is with the port, though. I know the lists go like that sometimes, so like I said, I've uninstalled it, and I'll probably look around for something else that's FBSD compatible, and that works. Thanks again Seth. Stacey On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 16:53, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > Yeah, I know what you mean. To be honest, I use Win2000 for all my desktop > work that I need done. FreeBSD is great at server tasks, but desktops take > some work. For what it's worth, when I had KDE3 on one of the FreeBSD > machines, the whole package worked together better than Gnome. But it takes > forever to compile (gcc is not speedy compiling c++), and there were some > shortage of apps that could use the new KDE3 framework. Hope your computing > gets easier... just saw your mail about Etherape. You might check that your > devices that it needs are extant in the /dev directory, or that the > permissions are correct, or that you have the correct kernel options. Other > than that, no idea. Sorry. > > Later, > Seth > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stacey Roberts" <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> > To: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> > Sent: Saturday, 2002 August 03 03:52 > Subject: Re: Just installed xscreensaver-gnome-4.05, no screensaver > ingnomecontrolcenter and X has just hung > > > > Hi Seth, > > Sorry about the delayed reply. > > > > I deinstalled xscreensaver-gnome in the end, to be honest. The machine > > in question is a freshly rebuilt box, and I'm weary of implementing > > work-arounds, hacks & kludges in order to get ports to work properly. > > > > I remember from a few months ago, that getting xscreensaver to work with > > FBSD was a hack job, and it's quite apparent that this is still required > > in order to get it to work - and I'm not going to do that this time > > around. > > > > Back then, I asked the port maintainer what I thought was a reasonable > > question: "if a port is broken, could it not be flagged as broken / > > forbidden?". The short description of what then ensued is that my > > question was the last I heard of this matter. That was back in April > > 2002 - xscreensaver is still broken and the ports tree still allows you > > to fetch it without any notices of the fact that it does not work as > > described. > > > > Sorry to go on like that. > > > > Stacey > > > > On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 03:14, Seth Hieronymus wrote: > > > Did you figure out your xscreensaver-gnome problems? > > > > > > I don't know if this is worth anything, or not, but I use the regular > > > xscreensaver port, not xscreensaver-gnome, and I put these lines in my > > > .xinitrc file before 'exec gnome-session': > > > xscreensaver-command -exit > > > xscreensaver & > > > > > > (Those are spaces before the -exit and the &). This seems to work fine. > You > > > can configure it by running 'xscreensaver-demo' on an xterm from within > gnome. > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > Seth Hieronymus > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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