Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question

Hi! I am a newbie trying to compile the program JACK that is required for the midi sequencer Rosegarden. This program (JACK) is not available through the ports collection and is intended for a Linux system. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with linux compatibility supported. Below is is the

CRITICAL Warning When Closing Gnome2

Hi! I am a newbie running 5.4 on an AMD Sempron with a dual boot (Win98SE) in a home environment. I am networked with two other Window boxes to share a high-speed DSL. My machine has been running smoothly for a few months now. I have two issues that I would gratefully appreciate

Re: 'Critical' Warining When Closing Gnome2

Hi! I am a newbie running 5.4 on an AMD Sempron with a dual boot (Win98SE) in a home environment. I am networked with two other Window boxes to share a high-speed DSL. My machine has been running smoothly for a few months now. I have two issues that I would gratefully appreciate

Sound as Root, No Sound as User

Hi, I'm a newbie, but managed to get my sound working as root, but not when I use a user account. The CD Player in Gnome works fine if I log in as root, but when I log on as a user, it says that there is a drive error, but if I su into root and cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play 1 I can play a

Gqview permantly frozen

Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.4. and it is working well, except for gqview. It will open in Gnome2, but the only control that responds to a mouse click is the X in the upper right hand corner to close it. I am unable to navigate the directory tree as simply nothing happens when

Gnome2 Hangs at Splash Screen

Hi! I can’t seem to get Gnome2 to work. I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from scratch, installed Xorg (it works fine, I can get into Xterm) and ran CVS (for both source and ports) and portupgrade several times. When I try to “startx” either as root or as a user, I get the initial Gnome 2.10

Newbie - Trouble Installing Gnome2

Hi, In order to have a clean start, I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from scratch (disc1, only). I choose the installation option All system sources, binaries and and X Window System. Everything went well. The first thing I did after the system rebooted was a portupgrade -a. Then I did a

Newbie - Trouble installing OpenOffice

Hi! I'm having a devil of a time trying to install the OpenOffice suite. I'm running FReeBSD 5.3 on a dual boot with Win98SE on a PC with a Sempron processor and 512MB of RAM with a 40GB hard drive for BSD and 10GB for Windows. First, I tried to install OpenOffice using