From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 6:25:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C4E837B41A for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 06:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1937 invoked by uid 0); 29 Apr 2002 13:25:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:25:38 +0200 (MEST) From: fabio.f@gmx.de To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Frustation with FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0003237773@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [195.179.163.45] Message-ID: <408.1020086738@www2.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everybody! I'm very disappointed about FreeBSD. I'm trying to get FreeBSD to run, but several things won't work. I spend so many hours in going through the handbook and trying things out, but it didn't helped. The Handbook ist really inadequate, if something went wrong. Maybe I should switch to suse Linux again. In SuSE, I clicked one button in SAX2 and everything was fine. Ok, iI will give FreeBSD the last change, but if no one can help me, I'll give up. Windows configured my sound card as ESS1869 PnP ISA 0x220-0x2bf,0x331-0x33b irq 5 drq 1,0. Dmesg | grep pcm gives the same back after reinstalling the kernel with device pcm and device sbc (options PNPBIOS in the kernel failed): pcm0: on sbc0. And Dmesg | grep sbc: sbc0: 0x220-0x2bf,0x331-0x33b irq 5 drq 1,0 on isa0. Command sh MAKEDEV snd0 &1 gave no pcm0 back. And there's no sound to hear. The gnome-mixer is adjusted, and while starting the game heretic, it has been closed because can't open dsp. I WILL HAVE SOUND. WHAT IS TO DO??? To mount a CD, I type "mount /cdrom", but how to mount an audio cd? And how can I mount CDROM graphically in GNOME? Allways look in /stand/sysinstall to know what application I had installed, is highly frustating. Any better solutions? To start an application for exaple:the game heretic starts with command "heretic". OK, I have tried out all names of most application, but this is time consuming and only one fifth starts with the name. Where can I find a file, where it is explicit explained to start for example heretic with "heretic". SuSE Linux offers the SuSE Help , where a complete package list is given and to each program is brief instruction with the starting command. I can't install many packages from the 4th CD, because the dependend package XFree86 3.3.6.10 is aborted to install. Why can't /stand/sysinstall not install the 3.3.6.10 package from the 4th cd. When I try to install it via ports, I mount /cdrom and type make install in the XFree86 - port, but the computer tries to access the internet and also abort it. What do I wrong? Greetings from Berlin, Germany Fabio -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message