From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 27 15:38:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 4D37DAF9 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x232.google.com (mail-ig0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19F2514A7 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f178.google.com with SMTP id uq10so9276261igb.5 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:38:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=gEbORj4FdTG9sSom0X8Ml6N0hYib1VFk9fkm+Kp76Xc=; b=Iqo2RaPyfaYpNqzfGQghBGyRxFG/Fyj2RnDIcpsm7sD9hymqZ1c+rvKWEFI2XAxb6H b4+VjU8FvYOjJKhBQ1NxhwuJM+D2nfEb5IGjyOfMekzdXYEB3T65MssPVZyERCrv2P7u I0DsoWKJw3LyWffzebaMb1ecxdcEjtxsEwMfKYsWbx3WF1gKsVOhU44q3Q2wUYnnIoET GHPy2yYApsFBh6w4EpAxjUxUz0Lq2udFpgJAzJBiT/I84KZaSUAur7EXoQcmeMyFmmKN Rn/oyVUl17sIKMpXQqVhT3D/uoJtcHWYeaoVWE486hc9Ofxe+Uw5mncG3dC20D4PJAzo 14NQ== X-Received: by 10.50.222.99 with SMTP id ql3mr17772873igc.42.1390837127504; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:38:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.14.130 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:38:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Fred Morcos Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:38:17 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: KDE4 pkg To: James Griffin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:38:48 -0000 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:31 PM, James Griffin wrote: > On 2014-01-27, Fred Morcos wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:59 PM, James Griffin >wrote: > > > >> I know this a bit cheesy/arse-licky but, having installed the kde4 > >> desktop -- and expecting to encounter many problems -- i'd just like to > >> say how impressed I am with it. > >> > >> Everything works brilliantly and for the first time in ages I can use > >> all of my hardware without issues; webcam, printers, it's great. > >> > >> So thanks to the people working on this. A really fantastic job I think. > >> > >> Cheers, Jamie > > > Nice to hear that. Never been a KDE user myself though. I am curious > about > > your hardware, could you elaborate more about that? Is it a laptop or a > > desktop? What kind of webcam? How is network management in KDE+FreeBSD > > without NetworkManager? (not that I like NetworkManager particularly, but > > are there specific KDE tools for network management on FreeBSD?) > > I use a desktop. It's a Lenovo Think Centre, bought it about 3 years > ago. Very standard machine: Dual-Core Pentium processor, Intel Chipset, > Logitech webcam, canon iP4700 printer (cups+gutenprint driver). > > I haven't needed to do anything with the network configuration. It was > configured automatically and has been fine. A brief look at what's > installed shows no particular network management tools to speak off, > although there may well be other pkg's one can install for that. > > As you would expect I had to set up devd but that is simple and fast to > do. > Thanks for your response. May I ask what devd setup you had to do?