From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 21:27:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA14646 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:27:07 -0800 Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA14627 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:26:59 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA19623; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:26:47 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199511150526.VAA19623@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: xcdplayer To: jaykuri@interaccess.com (Jay Kuri) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 21:26:46 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jay Kuri" at Nov 14, 95 11:10:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1416 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jaykuri@interaccess.com (Jay Kuri) writes: > > "cdplay cd0" works fine when run by me (under a normal account). > > However "xcdplayer" starts up with the display all scrunched up > > and overlapped, with no visible buttons. > > Well, the reason the display is scrunched is that you don't have the > XCdplayer file in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/ directory. If you > copy the XCdplayer into that directory the display should fix itself. Aha! I installed the package under /usr/local, so XCdplayer went into /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults instead. Copying it over fixed that. I don't know if this is a "bug" ? Is there some global X11 variable which tells where to find app-defaults? The reason we do it this way is so packages get shared by everyone via NFS mounting of /usr/local. > > Doing a ktrace shows it getting "Permission denied" when trying > > to open /dev/cd0a and /dev/rcd0a, even though a list of /dev/*cd0* > > shows everything having mode 666. > > No clue here tho. Mine tends to get this if the disk isn't spun-up > when I start xcdplayer... but it usually spins up and the problem goes > away. If it is always doing that tho, You've got me stumped. This problem magically went away also, hmm, OK. -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com