Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:05:42 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: fabio.f@gmx.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustation with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020429140542.50D26BB29@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <408.1020086738@www2.gmx.net> References: <408.1020086738@www2.gmx.net>
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On Monday 29 April 2002 09:25 am, fabio.f@gmx.de wrote:
| Hello everybody!
| I'm very disappointed about FreeBSD. I'm trying to get FreeBSD to run, but
Sorry to hear that.
| 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.
Well, I guess whether you want to switch back to Linux depends on why you
switched to FreeBSD in the first place. Linux is more of a "consumer"
operating system at this point; FreeBSD is more of a traditional Unix-like
experience.
It was the user-friendliness of Linux that soured me on it (meaning, there
was too much Gui glop that got in the way of me finding the scripts and such
where the action really was, plus it became just impossible to rebuild a
kernel anymore), but perhaps you prefer that, in which case Linux might be a
better choice *unless* there's something about FreeBSD you prefer.
(Some people will fanatically try to get everybody use FreeBSD; I'm much more
of the "if you prefer chocolate, order chocolate" persuasion.)
| 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
Ok, I am *not* the soundcard expert here, and somebody else can be more
helpful, I'm sure, but one thing strikes me here:
FreeBSD doesn't usually get on so well with Plug-n-play. You might try
disabling that in the bios.
| 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:<ESS 18xx dsp> on sbc0. And Dmesg | grep sbc: sbc0:<ESS 1869>
| 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???
Also, it could need to have a sound driver loaded, though I wouldn't know
which one. However, as a total *guess*, try
kldload ess
and see if that makes any difference. If it does, it can be autoloaded from
your /boot/loader.conf permanently with a "snd_ess_load="YES".
| To mount a CD, I type "mount /cdrom", but how to mount an audio cd? And how
Audio CD's aren't mounted. Just insert the audio CD and start up xmcd or
whatever application you prefer to play the CD; it should just work. (Once
you get sound enabled, of course.)
| can I mount CDROM graphically in GNOME?
No clue. That would seem to be more of a GNOME question than a FreeBSD
question.
| Allways look in /stand/sysinstall to know what application I had installed,
| is highly frustating. Any better solutions? To start an application for
pkg_info -aI
| 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".
You don't know how to use any of the applications you have installed? How
did you start them before (under Linux)?
pkg_info can tell you, among other things, what files were installed for a
given pacakge.
Useful tip:
pkg_info zip
tells me zip (as in nothing) since that's not the full package name, but
pkg_info 'zip*'
tells me about it.
man pkg_info for more information.
Or, on the other hand, I can just lanuch my appliations from the KDE start
menu since I run KDE, and it automatically picks up my installed applications
(or perhaps I run some scan-for-applications thingee from the KDE control
panel long ago that I don't quite recall).
I'd expect that Gnome would do the same thing, but if not, you could consider
dumping Gnome in favor of KDE if you want a more "user-friendly",
Windows-like environment for launching programs.
| SuSE Linux offers
| the SuSE Help , where a complete package list is given and to each program
| is brief instruction with the starting command.
Well, FreeBSD desn't have that. Kinda a cool idea, though; maybe I was
running the wrong Linux distribution. But I like FreeBSD better anyway, but
then I was using BSD in 1981, so it's more like home to me.
| 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?
ports always install off the internet; that's just what they do.
You need to install the *package* off the cd, with pkg_add.
| Greetings from Berlin, Germany
| Fabio
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