From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 14: 9: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD05E37B40D for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GIJ00EQ4HF1WD@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:09:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:08:53 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: OT:Kde2.2 To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B8570E5.7080908@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010809 References: <20010823173956.C26998@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B85304F.5040504@optonline.net> <20010823193758.J44626@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B855213.ECD82164@urx.com> <3B85648E.9060306@optonline.net> <3B856C10.BE4FBBCA@urx.com> 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 Im not to familiar with cddb, but if my notion is correct, its working. On the cdplayer shows the artist, name of the track, time, a whole lot of info. Perfect, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside... Kent Stewart wrote: > > Gerard Samuel wrote: > >>Thanks for the xmcd tip. Just installed. Seems great. Gotta have >>something to listen to when you code... ;) >> > > Without a doubt. You also want to know what you are listening to and > getting cddb to work is the other half. > > Kent > > >>Kent Stewart wrote: >> >>>Odhiambo Washington wrote: >>> >>> >>>>* Gerard Samuel [20010823 19:33]: writing on the subject 'Re: OT:Kde2.2' >>>>| I have kde 2.2 from ports with 4.3-stable, and the screen saver works. >>>>| Im using the matrix one that came with it. What Im upset about is I >>>>| have to ctrl-alt-backspace to kill x when I lock the screen, and I cant >>>>| get kdemultimedia's cd player to work, keeps crashing. Other than that, >>>>| its ok... >>>> >>>>Yes. If you do >>>> >>>>cd /usr/local/bin >>>> >>>>chmod 4555 *.kss >>>>chmod 4555 kcheckpass >>>> >>>>You will just unlock the screen by entering the password. >>>> >>>>Maybe you should first make a note of the perms on *.kss just in case you >>>>want to revert back. >>>> >>>>The CD player also asks me to vrf that I have access to /dev/rmatcd0 or >>>>whatever... >>>> >>>> >>>One of the system installs you had to have done in the past suggested that >>>you to create a link from your cd device to /dev/cdrom and then chmod it to >>>755. It was far enough in the past that I can't remember where I received it >>>during an install. If you have some old kscd configs around, you may also >>>have to configure the cddb data entry. >>> >>>I don't have any idea where this ancient stuff is coming from. You may have >>>also some old crufty stuff in your .kde user files because I expected it to >>>complain about /dev/cdrom. I looked on the machine I am running behind this >>>one and I noticed I had kscd configured to use /dev/acd0c. It has a problem >>>with the cddb database. At least, I had the link right. >>> >>>I happen to like xmcd better than kscd. It also didn't have a problem >>>getting cddb entries for the CDs I tested. Each of the cd players has a set >>>of brain-dead points. The best one will be which dumb features hit you the >>>least. >>> >>>Kent >>> >>> >>> >>>>Try the above and lemme know if it has any effect on the screen savers. >>>> >>>>Thanks for the response. >>>> >>>>| Ill try building the latest and see if it will fix anything, but I >>>>| haven't seen anything that says it does..... >>>>| >>>>| >>>>| Odhiambo Washington wrote: >>>>| >Anyone had luck with running Kde2.2 with the screensavers working? >>>>| >How did you go about activating the screensavers? I try to activate mine >>>>| >here but end up with blank screen all the time. Initially they seemed to >>>>| >work until either, >>>>| >(i) I changed the perms on *.kss in /usr/local/bin to 4555 or >>>>| >(ii) I did >>>>| > cd ~wash >>>>| >rm -rf .kde/ >>>>| >I am not sure which but I just upgraded to Kde2.2 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE >>>>| >and trust me, I never had the screensavers work with Kde2.1. With XFCE >>>>| >they seem to work okay, even with gdm (this monster corrupts the file >>>>| >system, no?) >>>>| > >>>>| >Just looking out for ideas. >>>>| > >>>>| >I searched Kde list archives but it would appear that Kde was actually >>>>| >meant for Linux, with which I don't have much hands-on experience. >>>>| > >>>>| >Thanks >>>>| > >>>>| >-Wash >>>>| > >>>>| >-- >>>>| >Odhiambo Washington >>>>| >Wananchi Online Ltd., >>>>| >wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. >>>>| >Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., >>>>| >Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. >>>>| > >>>>| >Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again. >>>>| >-Hal Summers >>>>| > >>>>| >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>>| >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>>>| > >>>>| > >>>>| >>>>| >>>> >>>>-Wash >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Odhiambo Washington >>>>Wananchi Online Ltd., >>>>wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. >>>>Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., >>>>Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. >>>> >>>>The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad. >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature >>>> >>>> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message