From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 19 14:23:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59BE1A1C; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from land.berklix.org (land.berklix.org [144.76.10.75]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFA112384; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBE73A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.203.231.58]) (authenticated bits=128) by land.berklix.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rAJENiWw067036; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:23:44 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id rAJENXu1015491; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:23:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost.js.berklix.net [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id rAJENKDc010371; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:23:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201311191423.rAJENKDc010371@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: Story of a Desktop User From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:59:02 EST." Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:23:19 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: desktop@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:23:57 -0000 Eitan Adler wrote: > The hardware switches from speakers to headphones automagically when I > plug in headphones. I like this behavior but it would be great if > there were a sysctl to disable it. If it's a mini jack that may be an artifact of the socket, in which case no software can control it. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative. Extradite NSA spy chief Alexander. http://berklix.eu/jhs/blog/2013_10_30 From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 20 03:20:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7141513; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-x22e.google.com (mail-qe0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B4AE2712; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f46.google.com with SMTP id s14so5640981qeb.5 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:20:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AxHd0fYsMfUakVtK1tLPpfbK/mYPueS5OITkVS9hQxk=; b=mL/QDOuoZIxX3lPiPG0SssgNAoLsqXtlyMQKnLJl/l629baXBTdtV9WC9UflNaQqoP cHDe66d+GdWB2F4safmdow2Rfz/H3f9WA1P3WeLmKUqSb69god6dGQ0a0tnKE4+rs3H+ +mRNG0PLOoLvXeR4/ptBa4GHQ7tTqhHPT1AA/aFNZmaXnv2NPfD2Aszyxbjx33t21I8K lPFIdsf91Vkwk55UqwkBH9oujDb/nOCQLTEgv97T9NHtqqcE7CXjERicThaqeaz5OlKw +x7ff3DxWLtcSHKjPx7uiIDrjJIR+JG1UxNgXNMBTvsDU31WGsjHr01pTDsSSn2fNaGx 8POQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.64.200 with SMTP id f8mr49335100qai.55.1384917624368; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:20:24 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.207.66 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:20:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201311191423.rAJENKDc010371@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201311191423.rAJENKDc010371@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:20:24 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: tTiZopaIlGc5d-XALYkBcL6aUDQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: Story of a Desktop User From: Adrian Chadd To: "Julian H. Stacey" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: desktop@freebsd.org, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:20:26 -0000 The newer sound stuff has a whole bunch of interesting interconnects internally that let you wire things around between functional blocks, inputs and outputs. I seem to recall that sometimes you have a hardware-only jack that does this. Sometimes its a software only thing where the hardware has a switch that the software uses to flip the output wiring. So depending upon the chipset and what it implements, it may be some automagic wiring done by the driver that's enumerated at boot time. Boot with -v and see if you get this nice verbose output from the sound driver explaining how all the connections are wired up. -adrian On 19 November 2013 06:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >> The hardware switches from speakers to headphones automagically when I >> plug in headphones. I like this behavior but it would be great if >> there were a sysctl to disable it. > > If it's a mini jack that may be an artifact of the socket, > in which case no software can control it. > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com > Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". > Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative. > Extradite NSA spy chief Alexander. http://berklix.eu/jhs/blog/2013_10_30 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 20 06:05:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E66B2CE; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x22b.google.com (mail-pb0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1E092EFD; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id rq2so7369253pbb.30 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:05:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=5y0A79QbbqPq0OBegsHiCoIFJZWvPD/gYP5BVaNKlcI=; b=wMiOIi+AgYR2gISauAaHC+LsrCX+RLm+lDaS7WOF+Z/94UGN8QYDwIHaLEOu2vxFJX wirO4PhhIlrl8hh87JchsKmVnDz5CY7NlGK3v4PDYn+Z+61C8N8zbW2uo6KuT7aaALbB 977dPik4wNYNF3p2Z8XndlVK1fsfykd5e3Nbs8g4SxeSwSH0rr6FdRx3H3kSx9vdSzL3 go/xne+xQzGjOA6ftV3K2i3wLjyPZyMTBqLwpJVETkuzPIU1XZpJm0iJI2AeTMOGj3Td RZSJCSb76eRFXvQdwBic8aFar6LjPw+1yv2K9PmaP9Bc2zhPlKs8Ku5qJH/MRqRj154i upCw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.67.21.226 with SMTP id hn2mr30451560pad.69.1384927547296; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:05:47 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.23.101 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:05:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201311191423.rAJENKDc010371@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:05:47 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4PlIo6d20fffOugkuF1ZGf5_ILw Message-ID: Subject: Re: Story of a Desktop User From: Kevin Oberman To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , desktop@freebsd.org, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:05:48 -0000 On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > The newer sound stuff has a whole bunch of interesting interconnects > internally that let you wire things around between functional blocks, > inputs and outputs. > > I seem to recall that sometimes you have a hardware-only jack that > does this. Sometimes its a software only thing where the hardware has > a switch that the software uses to flip the output wiring. > > So depending upon the chipset and what it implements, it may be some > automagic wiring done by the driver that's enumerated at boot time. > Boot with -v and see if you get this nice verbose output from the > sound driver explaining how all the connections are wired up. > > > > > -adrian > > > On 19 November 2013 06:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Eitan Adler wrote: > >> The hardware switches from speakers to headphones automagically when I > >> plug in headphones. I like this behavior but it would be great if > >> there were a sysctl to disable it. > > > > If it's a mini jack that may be an artifact of the socket, > > in which case no software can control it. > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > -- > > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich > http://berklix.com > > Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". > > Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or > multipart/alternative. > > Extradite NSA spy chief Alexander. > http://berklix.eu/jhs/blog/2013_10_30 > On most sound systems using snd_hda you can do this fairly easily, though figuring out the exact incantations can require a bit of reading and thought. Details (including sysctls) may be found in snd_hda(4). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 20 12:39:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31662B73 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C66B7277E for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:39:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u56so1821589wes.37 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:39:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZnIiQLHNvj0hV9mhXgXmLlHuoTNgiowq9fxcQZ8eHEI=; b=XryJoW5vBHZ3s4TVKwFMV8IfZmw9fwbMo0yiEOc7UPEz1Lmn/57Wi4Dz2dbbGycoDt 0AdrVZcbt81yzN9BBdkC2hFxYH68MyRkqqfpx9YlNBDtg7nPUKg9D77nhxsS2EatCA4t nq7Yi61pHbMDKJl+g2THySvZClwJLITyfrEEEw/3vpLkog1cbMJw4zyJr27s0UrwaeRl uzqc2nHUyiLU2F9oSUZhE6FzIk/IztYqxPewflkLc0j9Bfv5/puQX1ezb2S6G4q6Xd1U CHejKPKon3jYjjoju/QpdIx9B6/XRaIKgJ5kSCk6IZlQuHameApucIDy4/ewxq/W9v1h fZLA== X-Received: by 10.180.205.194 with SMTP id li2mr24981530wic.57.1384951149310; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:39:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (86.Red-81-37-22.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net. [81.37.22.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b7sm38465304wiz.8.2013.11.20.04.39.07 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:39:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:39:02 +0100 From: Daniel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pat=F3n?= To: desktop@freebsd.org Subject: Hello, I am new in the list Message-Id: <20131120133902.51d3333271511ce9601de559@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.19; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:39:11 -0000 Dear list: I want to introduce me as an user of FreeBSD (new in this list) with a medi= um experience. I had used this system occasionally since version 4 and alwa= ys I had prefer it on Linux. However, Debian GNU Linux was my most used sys= tem in the past because for me it is simpler. Another argument was the long= compilation time of certain applications in FreeBSD with old computers. To= day, the increase in speed of computers permit me use FreeBSD without long = delays in adapt each machine. I use 12 computers in my classes with scienti= fic software (R specially). Also, I believe that Linux is beginning to be t= oo much slow. I am suffering problems with drivers, stability and minor mis= takes that in previous version of Linux kernel I had not observed. I like t= he coherence of FreeBSD, the stability and speed of process. This system is= incredible fast and robust. I like very much the process of compilation an= d adaptation to each machine. I expect to learn a lot of this system with t= his list and the excellent handbook and introduce to my colleagues and stud= ents in the use of FreeBSD. Regards,=20 --=20 ******************************************************** Daniel Pat=F3n Dom=EDnguez Numerical Ecology. Ecology Unit Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences Faculty of Sciences. University of Extremadura Avda. 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I am however able to move the cursor around. - restart moused does not help - nothing of interest is to be found in dmesg Does anyone know what may cause this and how to fix it? -- Eitan Adler From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 23 20:58:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 576D42C8 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195042AB9 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 0D4F71E007AA; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:58:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from enceladus10.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by enceladus10.kn-bremen.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rANKtXLb055025; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:55:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by enceladus10.kn-bremen.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id rANKtXmp055024; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:55:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:55:33 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201311232055.rANKtXmp055024@enceladus10.kn-bremen.de> To: black.katagoto@gmail.com Subject: Re: KDE : VLC doesn't appears in the choices for removable devices opening X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.desktop In-Reply-To: Organization: home Cc: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:58:40 -0000 In article you write: >Hello all, Hi! > >I have installed KDE (kde-4.7.4_1) and VLC (vlc-1.1.13_6,3) from ports >whith the defaults options on FreeBSD 9.0-AMD64. >But, when I insert a cdrom or plug an usb key in, VLC doesn't appears in >the choices to open it, I tried to add VLC manually but it still not >appears. >My problem is that I can't play DVDs. >Have you go the same issue? How do you solve it? > Well I don't know about the kde side of things (I use lxde atm), but have you tried the old cli way? vlc dvd:///dev/cd0 (and the same should work for other players like xine too.) HTH, :) Juergen