From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 0:12:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C532537B410; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15aB8e-0009pR-00; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:12:20 +0300 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:12:20 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Cc: will@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OT:Kde2.2 Message-ID: <20010824101220.D20953@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q , will@FreeBSD.org References: <20010823173956.C26998@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B85304F.5040504@optonline.net> <20010823193758.J44626@ns2.wananchi.com> <3B855213.ECD82164@urx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B855213.ECD82164@urx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 10:08AM up 1 day, 14:15, 3 users, load averages: 1.17, 1.17, 1.12 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 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kent Stewart [20010823 21:57]: writing on the subject = 'Re: OT:Kde2.2' |=20 |=20 | Odhiambo Washington wrote: | >=20 | > * 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 ca= nt | > | get kdemultimedia's cd player to work, keeps crashing. Other than th= at, | > | its ok... | >=20 | > Yes. If you do | >=20 | > cd /usr/local/bin | >=20 | > chmod 4555 *.kss | > chmod 4555 kcheckpass | >=20 | > You will just unlock the screen by entering the password. | >=20 | > Maybe you should first make a note of the perms on *.kss just in case y= ou | > want to revert back. | >=20 | > The CD player also asks me to vrf that I have access to /dev/rmatcd0 or | > whatever... |=20 | 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.=20 |=20 | I don't have any idea where this ancient stuff is coming from. You may ha= ve | 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 th= is | one and I noticed I had kscd configured to use /dev/acd0c. It has a probl= em | with the cddb database. At least, I had the link right. |=20 | 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 s= et | of brain-dead points. The best one will be which dumb features hit you the | least. |=20 | Kent The _sad_ thing is that when you run as root all these things work perfectly. Now who is that 'danda-' who wants to run X as root when they are on a public network?=20 Isn't there a case for the maintainer to get these things right (yes, I know it's his personal time he invests on this and gets nothing in return from us) for us the first time, please? Thank you all for those who responded. -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. It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.=20 -Epitaph, Cheltenham Churchyard=20 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7hf5Un7LIsuxjem8RAlzWAJ9pbsDA5JnwGK+aKqh6FVnVr9GARgCgtHkv Kiw60BCzZJeh2T9VorzFbeo= =FvO3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message