Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:45:50 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Sonia Sachs <ssachs@george.lbl.gov> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch for 2.1.0 Message-ID: <199607230045.RAA00749@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:04:14 PDT." <199607230004.RAA27524@george.lbl.gov>
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Hi Sonia, You should try to subscribe to the multimedia freebsd mailing list: mail majordomo@freebsd.org subscribe multimedia quite a few numbers of folks can help you out with respect to FreeBSD and the multimedia stuff. To install FreeBSD-2.2 current is simple, the latest SNAP is from 6/12: 1. save whatever info you need on a remote machine 2. get the boot floppy ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/2.2-960612-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp 3. format a floppy disk: fdformat /dev/rfd0a 4. copy it to a floppy: dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0a Before installing the system get the following: ip address for you box ip address for you name server ip address for your gateway Boot from the floppy and install freebsd over the network. The process takes less than an hour. If you have a PCI bus I will be happy to loan you my SMC PCI card. Is rather important to have a *good* PCI ethernet card for fast video and to not put a heavy CPU burden on the system with heavy ethernet traffic --- all this is on the context of MBONE . "twm" gosh I have not use twm in quite a while 8) Try to download if you like fvwm-95: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current/x11/fvwm95-2.0.41f.tgz Besides looking nice , it is kind of handy to have a virtual desktop when you are doing audio/video conferencing . A panel for the mbone goodies and the rest well for whatever you like. Which video graphics board do you have? I am not too busy this week so if you run into serious problems I can stop by if you like. Regards, Amancio >From The Desk Of Sonia Sachs : > Hi, > > I learned from your Web page the situation with the > ethernet driver... > > I just looked into www.freebsd.org for upgrade to 2.2, > but couldn't figure out where it is (just found 2.1.5). > Could you give me a pointer? > > Also, I just tried to run vic and vat that I downloaded > from your Web page, but both kill twm... Do you have an > idea of what could be wrong? I am using Matrox Meteor board > (and yes, I did download vic from your page that said it > should be configured to work with this board). As far as > sound, I have the UltraSound Plug&Play Pro (supposedly > supported by freebsd). > > I already wrote to Steve McCanne on this, but he appears > to be out. > > Any help that you can give us would be mostly appreciated. > We are trying to demonstrate vic and vat on freebsd at > a conference in Stockhom. We leave this Friday (hopefully > with the machines running vic and vat). I will be sure to > mention your name and the fact that wasn't for your efforts > we couldn't possibly run these MBone tools on freebsd. > Of course, I wanted to show sdr as well, but it depends on > whether or not I can either find the upgrade to 2.2 or the > patch for the ethernet driver. > > thanks, > > Sonia
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