How much longer for GNOME

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Orlando,

> Now my  cube is happily running FreeBSD with X and  XFCE 4.

  Is this 6.8.2 or the pre-compiled 6.8.1 I put up ?

  I noticed that 6.8.2 server compiles out of the box now, but I've not 
run it up other than trying (unsuccessfully) to get it going on the mini.

  What are the specs on your cube ?

> I have tried already to compile firefox, and managed to have it  compile 
> successfully, using
> netbsd and linux stuff (netbsd doesn't use g++3 name mangling for  
> assembly stubs).
> The result is... it starts, then dies... so the next question is, any  
> progress with gdb? it is almost
> impossible to determine what's going on without a debugger... :-)

  There has been some. Suleiman did a fair amount of initial work,
so it's just a matter of pulling the pieces together.

> While I was at it, I compiled more than 200 ports successfully,  
> including the QT framework (and
> it works!!).

  That's great to hear :)

> Since the cube doesn't have internal audio, I managed to make usb  audio 
> work... and it works
> like a charm! (I limited myself to comment out sndbuf_xxx calls in  
> pcm/channel.c to get
> sound.ko don't complain about missing symbols heh).

  Might want to bring that up on the -multimedia or -usb lists: I think 
Tilman was trying to get this to work as well:

  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050426145734.GC2894

  Sounds like you did this with loadable modules ?

later,

Peter.