Looking for something to do?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 20 17:22:17 PST 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 20:06, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > With the new patch applied, does the list of available recording speeds
> > change?
> 
> Yep, I am using this patch and it does list all max and 1x to 16x.. My 
> CD-RW is 16x10x40.
> 
> > Are you still able to blank the disk?
> 
> You mean, erease cd? If yes, then I don't have any cd-rw blank around but 
> I can buy. I always buy cd-r blank. :-)

I mean, do you get the checkbox that allows you to enable blanking of
the disk?

> 
> >> > * Nautilus' volume monitor code: The volume monitor code has been
> >> > completely re-written in GNOME 2.5, and I'm much happier with the
> >> > FreeBSD code.  I've tried to make the functionality as close to Linux 
> >> as
> >> > possible, but you never know.  What you should test here is make sure 
> >> a
> >> > mounted CD/DVD or floppy disk shows up on the desktop.  You should 
> >> also
> >> > be able to do ``sysclt vfs.usermount=1'' then add an entry to fstab
> >> > where the mount point is owned by a user other than root, then see 
> >> that
> >> > icon on your desktop even when the disk is not mounted.  You should 
> >> then
> >> > be able to right-click on the icon, and mount the disk.
> >>
> >> A simple typo: s/sysclt/sysctl/g vfs.usermount=1
> >>
> >> Anyway, it doesn't work in here, I am not sure if I am doing it 
> >> correct. I
> >> have created ~/cdrom (mezz user) then add in the fstab following:
> >>
> >> ===============================
> >> /dev/acd0		/usr/home/mezz/cdrom	cd9660	ro,noauto	0	0
> >> ===============================
> >>
> >> But, it always work if I mount it by command line and a CD icon will
> >> appear in the desktop, no matter what user I mounted as.
> >>
> >> Boy, I always want 'user or users' feature to be add in fstab on FreeBSD
> >> like Linux has.
> >
> > Wow, this is good feedback.  Yes, the new code is supposed to emulate
> > the "users" option in Linux's fstab.  To be accurate,
> > /usr/home/mezz/cdrom is owned by you, and vfs.usermount is 1?
> 
> ========================
> % ls -l ~/ | grep cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x   2 mezz  mezz       512 Dec 20 13:58 cdrom/
> 
> % cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep usermount
> vfs.usermount=1
> 
> % sysctl vfs.usermount
> vfs.usermount: 1
> ========================
> 
> What else should I check on?

No.  I'll poke around the vfs code some more.  Thanks.

> 
> >> > * gnome-network: This is a new suite in GNOME 2.5.  It allows you to
> >> > launch remote RSH and SSH sessions as well as offers a MacOS X
> >> > netinfo-like app that lets you run ping, traceroute, whois, etc.  
> >> While
> >> > the interface info is not complete yet, all of the various network 
> >> tests
> >> > should work.
> >>
> >> The SSH (gnome-remote-shell) works perfect here. The netinfo's 'Devices'
> >> tab doesn't work, which everything display as 'not available'. The
> >> Traceroute doesn't work very well, which it will lag itself and I don't
> >> think it output the info correct. All other tabs like Ping, Netstat and
> >> etc work perfect.
> >
> > Some things should be populated under the Device tab.  Adam mentioned
> > some things about traceroute as well.  I'll have to look at those in
> > more detail after my initial patches are committed to gnome-network.
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Here's an attach of screenshot for Device tab.

Do you have IP configured on that interface?  My Devices tab shows me an
IP address, netmask, broadcast, multicast flag, MTU, and state. 
However, none of that info will come up if the interface doesn't have IP
configured.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> I will play with the other stuff more later to see if there has any bug 
> >> or
> >> whatever.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mezz
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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