Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:05:06 -0500 From: makisupa <bsd.makisupa@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Questions Message-ID: <1128719106.827.5.camel@localhost>
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Been using Linux awhile...recently migrated a laptop to FreeBSD. Its a bit old and BSD runs nicely on the deprecated hardware. I am using 6.0-BETA 5 despite warning to the contrary because my atheros based wifi card works well -- i had all kinds of trouble in 5.4. Running gnome 2.12. My newbie questions: 1. I am pretty sure that FAM is not running. The newest version of the package is installed. I followed the directions from the gnome FAQ and the pkg_message. 'killall -HUP inetd' gives me 'no matching processes were found.' When i launch something like gnome-menu-editor i get a 'failed to connect to the FAM server' message in the terminal. Similiarly, whenever i gedit a file su'd as root i get a 'gnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to the session manage: authentication rejected, reason: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host based authentication failed.' Please help...its very annoying as the gnome does not update worth a damn as you move, add, and delete files. I realize the instructions were for gnome 2.10 and i probably missed something obvious. 2. Is there a way to turn DMA on for a certain device or devices and not every ATAPI drive? I got permissions and whatnot straight to allow a users to mount CD/DVD drives -- my CD drive does not work correctly in DMA mode. BUT, i will need DMA in order to play DVDs correctly (see below). I passed the hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" option in my /boot/loader.conf file. is there a option i can pass that only enables DMA on my acd1 (dvd) and ad0 (hd) but NOT acd0 (CD)? 3. DVD playback. Just trying to use the totem default in my gnome install. I get a 'failed to retrieve capabilities of device /dev/acd1: inappropriate ioctl for device'. I've googled the hell out of this and came up with little helpful info. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. I think i'm doing fairly well for only running BSD for a couple of days...but if i could get these minor things straightened out i'd be set (and have a rockin' little laptop). FreeBSD definately seems more intuitive than most of the linux distros i've used... Thanks, Mak.
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