From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 18 17:37:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B00716A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fed1rmmtao10.cox.net (fed1rmmtao10.cox.net [68.230.241.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E834643D5C for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:37:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by fed1rmmtao10.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with ESMTP id <20040918173656.DLG10446.fed1rmmtao10.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:36:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:37:06 -0500 To: "Khairil Yusof" References: <1095512415.1402.14.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1095512415.1402.14.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Linux, build 751) cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is GNOME 2.7/2.8 stable to you? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:37:25 -0000 On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:00:15 +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:02 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > >> I haven't seen many report of GNOME 2.7/2.8 for weeks/months, so I am >> wondering how does it goes with all of you? I think, this 2.7 >> development >> is the most stable version that I have tested, which I couldn't find any >> more bugs lately beside gstreamer. > > Gnome 2.8/FreeBSD-5-Beta4 > > Straw is crashing on me, when I try to click on a news feed. Don't bother Straw, it's a too buggy software and the developers don't know what they are doing with it. Use Liferea or other RSS feeder software that functions better. > Multimedia > > Gstreamer > Immediate crash on Multimedia Systems Selector, gnome volume control not > detecting any sound card etc. Do you have any dsp* in the /dev/? I noticed that if I don't build kernel with sound or don't load it as module like disable sound, then GNOME will not be stable. Few apps will crashing such as gstreamer and etc. I think, GNOME should return it as NULL or false if the sound doesn't exist. Cheers, Mezz > I'm looking into both now, and will get debug info, if I can't find out > what's causing them to crash/not work. > > Otherwise, I've not run into any problems (yet) on Gnome 2.8. -- mezz7 at cox.net - mezz at FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome at FreeBSD.org