Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:30:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/27056: kscd installed by x11/kde2 crashes on XFree86-4.0.3/FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <200105072130.f47LU4T96317@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/27056; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To: "Sung N. Cho" <sucho2@vt.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, ernst@heinz.jollem.com
Subject: Re: ports/27056: kscd installed by x11/kde2 crashes on XFree86-4.0.3/FreeBSD 4.3
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 23:24:36 +0200
What do you know?! I did:
# ln -s /dev/rcd0c /dev/cdrom
and now kscd *does* work. I do consider this a bug in kscd though.
Ernst
Sung N. Cho wrote:
> Try creating a link in /dev
>
>
> As a root, do this:
>
> # ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/cdrom
>
> And, if you haven't changed the mode for acd0c,
>
> # chmod 555 /dev/acd0c
>
> KSCD by default, looks for /dev/cdrom. But, FreeBSD doesn't seem to have
> that link in /dev directory as it is for all Linux distributions. After all,
> KDE was written on Linux systems for Linux.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Sung N. Cho,
> Monday, May 06, 2001.
>
--
Ernst de Haan
Java Architect
Jollem Information Technology
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