Re: Xorg autoconfig much better or kde doing it? [ Was: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question ]
Should have mentioned: 5.4-RC and KDE 3.4, xorg 6.8.2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Xorg autoconfig much better or kde doing it? [ Was: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question ]
Yeah, yeah, answering to my own post, but different subject that I've been wondering about: A couple weeks ago I moved my main box over from one disk to another and installed packages I had prepared before and copied over, etc, and I started KDE and only a few days later I noticed (when trying to use GL) that I was running with X's nv driver, not with nvidia driver. I completely forgot to setup a xorg config but it ran well nonetheless. I used to have to use specific hor/vert modes for my LCD monitor. Well, now something managed to autoconfigure it all. I haven't researched this but it seems that either xorg has improved greatly or KDE goes through great lenghts to make stuff just work. So, is this xorg or KDE that does the extra mile? Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:10, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Danny Pansters wrote: > > Of course that is if people _WANT_ to do away with the X prefix, up until > > now my impression was that most folks didn't mind it or even thought it > > was better. I never really cared very much about it apart from aestetic > > [sp?] reasons, but I can certainly imagine it being confusing to some > > (new) users. > > I have always historically liked having a /usr/local and > /usr/X11R6. If I converted a machine to headless, such as > retiring a workstation into a backup MX or such, rm -rf > /usr/X11R6 was always clean and easy, and cleared up tons of > space. "a place that's convenient to rm -rf". OK, that's one use ;-) > > Even now, it's annoying that KDE puts its stuff one place > and GNOME puts it stuff somewhere else. I'd rather have it > all in /usr/X11R6 -- anything GUI related in one place that > I can both mentally and physically segregate. > > Having said all that, I admit this is mostly inertia from > before decent packaging systems existed. I'm used to > immediately going into /usr/X11R6 to find the configuration > data for my UI, but as mentioned, KDE's already screwing > that up for me :) And removing the GUI is as easy as > pkg_delete -r imake*, so I think moving forward, there's no > significant technical reason to keep a separate prefix. As a matter of fact, as someone who almost always uses kde (also to work on Xless boxen from) and I only got exposed to "etc files" in /usr/X11R6 when doing something with gtk or with fxtv, both outside of my usual DE. Actually "etc files" are "lib files" in this case but you get the point. So that's coming from the other side of looking at it (most standard X stuff and Xlib apps is never touched even if it's in /usr/X11R6, the notable exception being XFConfig or xorgconfig. And this one, yes, resides in /etc per default...) As for KDE, I don't see any kde config files in /usr/local/etc. They're in /usr/local/share/[applnk][apps][config]. It follows its own config tree relative to its install prefix, be it /usr/local or /usr/X11R6. Either way, it does its own thing with its own config files. And with such a large project it makes sense to dictate how your config files are organized (save for PREFIX). It makes it more portable, not less IMHO. pkg_delete -r imake* is one for the archives I must say! :) Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Danny Pansters wrote: Of course that is if people _WANT_ to do away with the X prefix, up until now my impression was that most folks didn't mind it or even thought it was better. I never really cared very much about it apart from aestetic [sp?] reasons, but I can certainly imagine it being confusing to some (new) users. I have always historically liked having a /usr/local and /usr/X11R6. If I converted a machine to headless, such as retiring a workstation into a backup MX or such, rm -rf /usr/X11R6 was always clean and easy, and cleared up tons of space. Even now, it's annoying that KDE puts its stuff one place and GNOME puts it stuff somewhere else. I'd rather have it all in /usr/X11R6 -- anything GUI related in one place that I can both mentally and physically segregate. Having said all that, I admit this is mostly inertia from before decent packaging systems existed. I'm used to immediately going into /usr/X11R6 to find the configuration data for my UI, but as mentioned, KDE's already screwing that up for me :) And removing the GUI is as easy as pkg_delete -r imake*, so I think moving forward, there's no significant technical reason to keep a separate prefix. -- -- Mike Still using IE? Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=6492&t=1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Saturday 23 April 2005 21:29, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:14:56 -0500 > > "Jeremy Messenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but > > >> until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install > > >> into unusual locations to prove a point. > > > > > > It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > > > wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > > > /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > > > /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > > > > I disagree with NetBSD's PREFIX. I would go with the global prefix, > > /usr/local. 85% of configure has the /usr/local by default and FreeBSD > > already has /usr/local (to kill the colour discussions), so all we have > > to do is remove /usr/X11R6. Before you ask how we can test if the port is > > respect the prefix, we should be able to find out very easy when you work > > with pkg-plist by follow the porter handbook. > > I wasn't advocating the use of /usr/pkg, but rather the way they > enforce it for every package. I personally don't mind what the prefix > is called, but for the sake of POLA /usr/local would certainly serve > FreeBSD better. FWIW, well behaved software should always be $PREFIX > clean. Good discussion. Wanted to add some thoughts... [ I stopped CC'ing everyone, for those who read the lists anyway and don't want to get 3 or 4 copies, but I don't mind if anyone CCs me again in a response ] At netbsd they have an "xwedge" package that basically maps any /usr/X11R6 to /usr/pkg come install time. We could easily have something likewise (or borrow it from net) but it still has the problem: what are you going to do with users who already have the /usr/X11R6 "bonus" tree. Also (minor?) the xorg distribution should install into PREFIX also then, of course. xwedge seems to be great if it's the first thing you install/setup, I don't know how/if it can cope if installed after one already has 200 packages installed. If it copes with that, borrowing it as a starting point would make sense. Any port that's PREFIX clean should be no problem if a similar "xwedge" scheme is used. Then eventually it could be dropped after everything caught up with there being only one prefix. Still, I wonder if just ruthlessly making the X target a hard link to the local target (and maybe later fase out X11BASE in ports) wouldn't be the best way to go about this. Would be completely POLA agnostic at first _and_ at last, for those cases that will/can not be stomped into conforming to LOCALBASE you could always retain a simple hard link. That's one inode pointing to one other. It won't saturate our disks ;-) The only problem I can think of is maybe there will be name clashes somewhere. But it may very well be the case that things go a lot deeper, and there's no easy solutions. In that case, well, we can already live with it now... Of course that is if people _WANT_ to do away with the X prefix, up until now my impression was that most folks didn't mind it or even thought it was better. I never really cared very much about it apart from aestetic [sp?] reasons, but I can certainly imagine it being confusing to some (new) users. One other thing, which doesn't concern end users is that it can make things easier for porters. If you have a port that needs to put something into LOCALBASE and something into X11BASE you're always going to have an interesting plist and more error prone littering in your Makefile. Of course you can always cope, but simpler is better. OK, enough babble :) Regards, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:17:51PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:31:31 -0500, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>Miguel Mendez wrote: > >>>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 > >>>Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but > >>until > then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into > unusual locations to prove a point. > >>> > >>> > >>>It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > >>>wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > >>>/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > >>>/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > >>> > >>>Cheers, > >> > >>There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. > >>But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it > >>without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. > >> > > > > One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or > > /usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it > > hardwired in 7-STABLE. We could just dump everything > > into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc; > > If it happens FreeBSD do that, then FreeBSD is messy, Linux-ish and dead. > :-P > Right on the money! That's one thing I don't like about the Linux distros. And why it makes sense to dump any local ports (GUI or whatever) into /usr/local. The default /etc/motd would inform people. -g > > > but it seems better to have a > > place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc > > and one and only one for everything else. > > > > gary > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FreeBSD GNOME Team > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:14:56 -0500 "Jeremy Messenger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until > >> then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into > >> unusual locations to prove a point. > > > > It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > > wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > > /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > > /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > > I disagree with NetBSD's PREFIX. I would go with the global prefix, > /usr/local. 85% of configure has the /usr/local by default and FreeBSD > already has /usr/local (to kill the colour discussions), so all we have to > do is remove /usr/X11R6. Before you ask how we can test if the port is > respect the prefix, we should be able to find out very easy when you work > with pkg-plist by follow the porter handbook. I wasn't advocating the use of /usr/pkg, but rather the way they enforce it for every package. I personally don't mind what the prefix is called, but for the sake of POLA /usr/local would certainly serve FreeBSD better. FWIW, well behaved software should always be $PREFIX clean. On an unrelated note, I also find their buildlink system pretty interesting, and have meant to have a more in depth look at it for a while but, as always, there's only so much stuff you can do in 24 hours. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpF5OOjR1LWP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:31:31 -0500, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: Miguel Mendez wrote: >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 >Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until >>then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into >>unusual locations to prove a point. > > >It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done >wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under >/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not >/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > >Cheers, There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or /usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it hardwired in 7-STABLE. We could just dump everything into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc; If it happens FreeBSD do that, then FreeBSD is messy, Linux-ish and dead. :-P Cheers, Mezz but it seems better to have a place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc and one and only one for everything else. gary -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:38:52 -0500, Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into unusual locations to prove a point. It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. I disagree with NetBSD's PREFIX. I would go with the global prefix, /usr/local. 85% of configure has the /usr/local by default and FreeBSD already has /usr/local (to kill the colour discussions), so all we have to do is remove /usr/X11R6. Before you ask how we can test if the port is respect the prefix, we should be able to find out very easy when you work with pkg-plist by follow the porter handbook. BTW: FreeBSD doesn't has to be weird. :-) Cheers, Mezz Cheers, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Miguel Mendez wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 > >Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until > >>then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into > >>unusual locations to prove a point. > > > > > >It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > >wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > >/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > >/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > > > >Cheers, > > There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. > But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it > without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. > One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or /usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it hardwired in 7-STABLE. We could just dump everything into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc; but it seems better to have a place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc and one and only one for everything else. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into unusual locations to prove a point. It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. Cheers, There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vectors.cx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 Adam Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until > then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into > unusual locations to prove a point. It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgp0OlM4Y7nht.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file > that tells the installer what to do post-install. At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) gary No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. I am hoping to get all GNOME stuff move in LOCALBASE someday when I have time. FreeBSD needs to remove one prefix either (LOCALBASE or X11BASE) to have a prefix. MPlayer doesn't need X. It can run just fine in an X-less environment. Same with SDL. Things that _require_ X live in /usr/X11R6. Except for KDE, which claims that they alone are interpreting hier(7) correctly and *every single other X app in the entire ports tree* is wrong. Also OOo, but those poor guys have enough to deal with without trying to force a nonstandard prefix. Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into unusual locations to prove a point. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vectors.cx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure > > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file > > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file > > that tells the installer what to do post-install. > > At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. > This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating > symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* > non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) > > gary > No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. It's indeed bad IMHO, but I'm sure that everytime there were also good reasons to keep the /usr/X11R6 (for one thing: it's a dist). My EUR 0.02, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file > that tells the installer what to do post-install. At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) gary No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. I am hoping to get all GNOME stuff move in LOCALBASE someday when I have time. FreeBSD needs to remove one prefix either (LOCALBASE or X11BASE) to have a prefix. Cheers, Mezz It's indeed bad IMHO, but I'm sure that everytime there were also good reasons to keep the /usr/X11R6 (for one thing: it's a dist). My EUR 0.02, Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:09:29AM -0400, jason henson wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:12PM -0400, jason henson wrote: > > > > > Is it up to date? > > You mean the port? > /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs > > You mean the install location? > /usr/local/lib/win32/ Thanks. I was searching on codec. If you didn't catch my post from Thursday, I finally found the reason the mplayer-plugin was failing was that I hadn't touched|found /usr/X116R/etc/mplayerplug-in.conf. The porter or author left everything commented. I suggested adding a blurb to the port Makefile or else uncommenting enough variables to allow some min functionality--this *with* a Makefile blurb. I was looking in /usr/local/etc for the configuration file. ... Anyhow, mplayer works only that the volume is distorted. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:12PM -0400, jason henson wrote: Gary Kline wrote: What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small window. "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the options does no good. If I click on the full-screen option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to work? I've poked around and don't see anything very helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? gary do you have the win32-codecs port installed? If not install that then recompile mplayer and the plugin. It's in my pkg/db; but where is the file/path-to? Is it up to date? You mean the port? /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs You mean the install location? /usr/local/lib/win32/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:12PM -0400, jason henson wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get > > mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? > > (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone > > to work with links?) > > > > Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; > > checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is > > there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, > > the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There > > are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small > > window. "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the > > options does no good. If I click on the full-screen > > option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. > > > > I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. > > Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to > > work? I've poked around and don't see anything very > > helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > do you have the win32-codecs port installed? If not install that then > recompile mplayer and the plugin. It's in my pkg/db; but where is the file/path-to? -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
Gary Kline wrote: What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small window. "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the options does no good. If I click on the full-screen option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to work? I've poked around and don't see anything very helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? gary do you have the win32-codecs port installed? If not install that then recompile mplayer and the plugin. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
mplayer/mplayer-plugin question
What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox? (Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone to work with links?) Here is what's happening: I have everything installed; checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is there. But when I try to listen to anything windows, the stream seems to load, but there is nosound. There are no controls. A right-mouse click brings up a small window. "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the options does no good. If I click on the full-screen option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed. I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks. Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to work? I've poked around and don't see anything very helpful on this port. Any mplayer wizards out there??? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
