From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 4:54:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sinfonix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (sinfonix.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CBD37BB2F for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas.salmon@tu-clausthal.de) Received: from proxyplus.universe (async15.dial.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.6.45]) by sinfonix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18629 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:54:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from 192.168.0.2 by Proxy+; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:54:01 GMT Message-ID: <38D8C231.6C2662DC@tu-clausthal.de> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:53:05 +0100 From: Thomas Salmon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: KDE, Software recording, Samba, Soundcard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi friends: I am still a newcomer to FreeBSD and trying to do the most on own. Until now I've read nearly the whole documentation on my screen therefore I am already forced to wear sunglasses, however, now is the point to ask for help. #1) My screen only supports a resolution of 640 x 480. KDE seems to be bigger, so to say a good part of some KDE windows is not visible on my screen. Is there any solution? #2) After the installation of some packages, e. g. netscape, some parts of the program seemed to be missing. On the one hand, a renewed installation with pkg_add failed (message: "package already recorded"), whereas a de-installation was not possible for pkg_delete could not find the package, beyond that the program was not executable (message: "... could not be found.") though it was where FreeBSD expects it to be (/usr/local/bin). Is there any possibility to recover such broken installations? #3) Samba comes nearly without any documentation. The manpages are somewhat confusing especially since they assume a created directory /usr/local/samba and a file /etc/smb.conf which Samba did not create on my machine. How do I set up Samba? How I do find out how Samba is working (what files are to be edited, what parameters are to be set) ? #4) Until now, I was not able to configure my soundcard (Maestro II with an ESS 1968 chipset). My own custom kernel is working so far and even my TV card was detected successfully, but not so my soundcard. I did create device nodes (snd0, bktr0) and tried the sb-driver as well as the pcm driver without success (the card should be compatible to the SoundBlaster Standard and to the one of the Microsoft SoundSystem according to the vendor's information). Which driver is the right one? Hope I didn't stress your patience too much. Thanks in advance. Sincerly, Thomas Salmon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message