Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:12:11 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <20051016041211.GA35572@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051015203056.3525e2bc@vixen42.vulpes> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <20051015142358.59fc6f00@vixen42.vulpes> <20051015205705.GC29903@thought.org> <20051015203056.3525e2bc@vixen42.vulpes>
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On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:57:05 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 > > > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > > > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > > > > > Oh: I brought up linux-mozilla under Gnome, pointed > > > > audio/x-pn-realaudio at realplay; it works except that > > > > the audio "quivers". With ctwm, I can nice apps down; with > > > > user-friendly window mangers, things are hidden away. > > > > > > > > Anyway. If anybody knows how to add other KDE apps to > > > > the default, and how I can fix firefox to point to realplay, > > > > I would appreciate it. > > > > > > BTW what version of FreeBSD are you running on it? Mine had > > > problems till a update done some time after 5.4. Had something to > > > do with cpu cx states, acpi, or something like that, that my > > > audio worked nicely. Previously it had to be on at cx 1 to work > > > properly. It works properly at others now. > > > > I'm running 5.3 everywhere except for my Ubuntu server. > > No need/reason to move to v 6.X as far as I'm concerned. > > I may not have moved over the new linuxpluginwrapper file > > to /etc. I can't think of any other reason that mplayer > > would hang after every 1+ sec or that realplay would > > sound off/quiver/echo. > > > > But: before I go and change wm's and wind up with > > something that just doesn't work, there's lots of testing to do. > > I would suggest cvsuping to the newest 5.x. I had problems with one > of the older versions of 5.x on my laptop till it was fixed in one of > the commits. Underway. I always read UPGRADING nowadays, but if there are any recent gotchas, please drop a line. I've got a week before I more/less vanish into studyland for a few months. The more I can get done now, the happier, &c. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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