Problems with 5.2.1 Release
Hello everyone, I've got an older computer. PIII 450. Riva TNT 2 video. Plenty of RAM. Couple of issues. First, let me say that I've been using FreeBSD off and on since version 3. 1. 1st hardrive has Windows XP on it. Full Drive. 2nd drive is devoted to FreeBSD. Boot manager, unlike older versions, seems to always change the active partition when I boot into FreeBSD thus after a reboot I have to boot from a DOS floppy and make the XP partition on the 1st drive active so the computer can boot. I've done several installs over the last couple of days and can not seem to find a way around this. 2. I WAS having a problem with the machine freezing every time I started X. I read in the erata about the ACIP problems and got around that. However, when I created a custom kernel, and all I did was add the pcm driver so I could have sound, the machine freezes on boot while accessing the ethernet card. 3Com card that works fine with the Generic kernel. That has me completely stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did not have the same sort of problems with this machine with 5.1 release or any of the 4.x series. Thanks! Matt Anderson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regarding Problems with 5.2.1 Release
Hello again everyone! Thanks to all that responded. Here is where it stands. 1. The bootmanager issue is still an issue but I can work around it. 2. As for the sound card. I tried the kldload snd_driver and it forced a reboot of my machine. Ah... Ok. I remembered that I had turned off Plug N Play OS in my BIOS. I turned that back on and rebooted. kldload snd_driver then ran just fine. But, no sound in KDE or Gnome. I'm trying the custom kernal again now. The other thing I should mention is that this computer has a funky internal modem with built in sound AND a soundblaster type card. I think that may be confusing things. As I'm networked and my iMac is the one actually dialing out, I think I'll just remove the modem from this machine and see where it goes from there. Thanks again! Matt Anderson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1 Release and fonts in Gnome vs. KDE
Hello again! KDE and Gnome both installed out of the packages on the CD. Fonts look great in Gnome and crappy in KDE. Even KDE apps like kmail look good in Gnome. I've not seen this sort of stuff in any linux distro. Any ideas? Matt Anderson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound set up
First thing to try, as root: kldload snd_driver If that goes off without problems and sound works (in KDE for example) then you can compile a new kernel with: device pcm After that you won't have to kldload snd_driver as root. Hope that helps. On Tue, 11 May 2004, arden wrote: hi all ive been using linux for some time and thought was time to try something new the install of 5.2 went without a prob but did not set up my sound card in linux would be able to probe the pci bus to get an id of the card with cat /proc/ pci but could not under bsd can you please point me in the right direction arden ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome 2.6 on 5.2.1 Release
Hello everyone! I had to run the upgrade script a few times and since I'm on dialup it took days but at last I have gnome 2.6 installed. I then went on and installed gnome2-fifth-toe from my updated ports collection. All seemed to go well. But, rhythmbox crashes every time I try to play an mp3 file. I get the following error: Internal GStreamer error: pad problem. File a bug. Does not seem to matter what mp3 I try to play. Any clues? Matt Anderson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound-juicer issues
Hello everyone! I've got 5.2.1 Release installed. I've cvsuped my ports collection and gotten a successful Gnome 2.6 install. The Gnome CD player sees my cdrom just fine and plays music cd's. However, sound-juicer does not see it and I can't seem to enable an ability to choose the device anywhere within the program. Root or normal user, the result is the same. Has anyone seen behavior like this? It is an IDE cdrom as Master on the 2nd IDE Bus. KDE 3.2 will read the cd's by the way. On this same box koffice will not build because of error's the the TK84 toolkit. What's really frustrating is that I recently had to wipe this box and start over. ALL things the same except the date of cvsup runs. The Gnome 2.6 install I had a few weeks ago worked fine. So did the KDE 3.2 install. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Matt Anderson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
