Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

[James Leone]

Hendrik Hasenbein wrote:

> James Leone wrote:
>
>> 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click 
>> on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not 
>> be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I 
>> get an error that says: "the device is not configured."
>
>
> Why do you even want to access a floppy before you insert it into the 
> drive? No system should be able to do that. Kde tries to mount the 
> floppy on clicking on the item. That is going to fail, because without 
> a floppy in the drive there is no device in the device filesystem. 
> Can't think why that should work with linux.
>
>> 3. When I went to /boot/kernel and typed kldload pcm, it appeared to 
>> load up fine, no warning messages, etc. However, when I boot into 
>> KDE, KDE will not have any sound. However, if I compile PCM into the 
>> kernel and reboot, KDE's sound works just fine.
>
>
> Should work both ways. Perhaps the kde sound deamon is run by an 
> script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d before your module is probed in.
>
>> 4. The Real Player port does not use FreeBSD's sound system, even 
>> though sound is working in KDE.  I have found a few proposed 
>> solutions, including one from the Real One Player forum, but none 
>> work. The error message says device not found.
>
>
> Realplayer is working fine. Perhaps your sound device is already taken 
> and blocked by kde.
>
>> 5. When configured with the tools available to sysinstall, and 
>> additionally when X -configure is run, the XF86Config file does not 
>> include the modes lines that I get in SuSE Linux 8.2. I ended up 
>> copying over and slightly modifying SuSE's XF86Config file for better 
>> screeen resolution.
>
>
> Modelines aren't needed any more. Just insert the parameters of your 
> monitor and choose the desired resolution. Btw most screens show a 
> sharper display if they aren't running at their stated max.
>
> Hendrik
>
LIke I said, I am just providing information here. I really don't care 
if it gets resolved, but I did care enough to point out these REAL problems.

James Leone