From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 06:59:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28FE16A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C4643FCB for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthony@carmoda.com) Received: from carmoda.com (c211-28-220-147.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au [211.28.220.147])h9GDxqR08653 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:59:53 +1000 Message-ID: <3F8F321F.5040607@carmoda.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:04:47 +0000 From: Anthony Carmody Organization: Anthony Carmody Consulting Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3F8DA152.7000002@carmoda.com> <44brshz49h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44brshz49h.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: cannot view network servers, no sound X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: anthony@carmoda.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:59:56 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Anthony Carmody writes: > > >>Running FreeBSD 5.1 on an Intel D45PESV mainboard. [onboard sound AC97 >>AC1981B] > > > Sounds fine. It's a "technology preview" release, remember, but it > should be pretty solid for your purposes. sure. and it's the 5th 5.1 machine i have built, just that i need this one as a workstation.. >>i have no sound and i cannot browse my network machines in >>gnome. Everything seems to work just fine, just that i get an error >>upon starting gnome [something about the mixer] and when i go to add a >>network server i get nothing. I have noticed that logged in as 'root' >>i can see them, just not connect. >> >>i have no idea about testing sound outside of a GUI so i dont know >>about it being Gnome related... > > > Okay. These two problems are completely unrelated, and would be > easier to treat if you'd posted them as different messages. > > For sound, please see the section in the FreeBSD handbook that talks > about the subject. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html yep. i unpacked my handbook, made a really strong espresso and i have ~s~o~u~n~d~. > For "browsing" your network, it depends what you're talking about. > Different protocols tend to use different applications, and you didn't > even mention whether you're using Microsoft protocols or standard ones. ok, my fileserver is a 5.1 machine [as is this one] running samba. i just want to be able to browse the folders in a similar fashion as windo$e. Gnome seems to have a function to add network servers, except that it dosent seem to work. in fact, it crashes. i'm thinking there must be something i have overlooked in my network setup. -- Regards, Anthony John Carmody Anthony Carmody Consulting Pty Ltd Adaptable Business Computing Solutions ====================================== Cellular/Mobile: +61 414417457 Fax: +617 38708040 Email: anthony@carmoda.com