From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 02:10:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2532F16A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 02:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E8D43FAF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 02:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jleone@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net (adsl-66-124-255-103.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.255.103])h869AHtu029871; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 04:10:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3F59CE9A.1060907@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 05:10:02 -0700 From: James Leone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hendrik Hasenbein References: <3F58FDF6.3030707@pacbell.net> <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:10:20 -0000 Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: > James Leone wrote: > >> 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click >> on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not >> be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I >> get an error that says: "the device is not configured." > > > Why do you even want to access a floppy before you insert it into the > drive? No system should be able to do that. Kde tries to mount the > floppy on clicking on the item. That is going to fail, because without > a floppy in the drive there is no device in the device filesystem. > Can't think why that should work with linux. > >> 3. When I went to /boot/kernel and typed kldload pcm, it appeared to >> load up fine, no warning messages, etc. However, when I boot into >> KDE, KDE will not have any sound. However, if I compile PCM into the >> kernel and reboot, KDE's sound works just fine. > > > Should work both ways. Perhaps the kde sound deamon is run by an > script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d before your module is probed in. > >> 4. The Real Player port does not use FreeBSD's sound system, even >> though sound is working in KDE. I have found a few proposed >> solutions, including one from the Real One Player forum, but none >> work. The error message says device not found. > > > Realplayer is working fine. Perhaps your sound device is already taken > and blocked by kde. > >> 5. When configured with the tools available to sysinstall, and >> additionally when X -configure is run, the XF86Config file does not >> include the modes lines that I get in SuSE Linux 8.2. I ended up >> copying over and slightly modifying SuSE's XF86Config file for better >> screeen resolution. > > > Modelines aren't needed any more. Just insert the parameters of your > monitor and choose the desired resolution. Btw most screens show a > sharper display if they aren't running at their stated max. > > Hendrik > LIke I said, I am just providing information here. I really don't care if it gets resolved, but I did care enough to point out these REAL problems. James Leone