Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:11:32 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: row of questions to different parts of fbsd Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911301402480.1377-100000@sun33> In-Reply-To: <19991130131047.E3470@hades.hell.gr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, d e a t h wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 07:42:31PM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > 1) I cannot run netscape3.04 as user... > > Does that mean that you can run it as the superuser? Yeap it does mean it. > > What steps are neccesary to bring netscape running from user accounts? The problem is :I get connection denied as soon as I try to use it as user on all hosts.As soon as I activate connection as superuser it works. > Use locate(1) to find where `netscape' exists on your system, and check > if the permissions allow execution by everyone. Then make sure that > the directory where the binary is in the PATH, and if not add it to the > PATH or symlink the binary to a directory that already is. > > > 2)I cannot run doom... > > Dunno, never have run the thing myself either. But, then again, I > never tried to ;) > > > /dev/dsp could not open (I got some advises that this message is maybe > > somehow related to absence of soundcard on my > > computer) > > Yes, most of the time a soundcard is mandatory for /dev/dsp to be > working properly. Doesn't doom have some option to turn off sound > support, so all the users of the world will be able to happily run it? > > > Kernel Linux support is enabled. > How is this related to the questions above? Are you running a linux > version of Netscape, or a linux version of doom, or (perhaps) neither? I TRY to run doom version of linux :)) Feel the difference between TRY and run :)).I switched off sound ,switched to 8bpp what I got was rather horrible I guess window was about 9*13 and the thing was constantly loosing its colormap ,producing something that is hard to describe :some clutches hued in mostly in blue with some includings of yellow. kind regards, Ariel > -- > Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] Ethica Nicomachea as I guess :)) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.4.10.9911301402480.1377-100000>