interesting past 4 hours...

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:57:05 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700
> > > Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 	This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights,
> > > > 
> > > > 	Oh: I brought up linux-mozilla under Gnome, pointed 
> > > > 	audio/x-pn-realaudio at realplay; it works except that
> > > > the audio "quivers".  With ctwm, I can nice apps down; with 
> > > > 	user-friendly window mangers, things are hidden away.
> > > > 
> > > > 	Anyway. If anybody knows how to add other KDE apps to
> > > > the default, and how I can fix firefox to point to realplay, 
> > > > 	I would appreciate it.
> > > 
> > > BTW what version of FreeBSD are you running on it? Mine had
> > > problems till a update done some time after 5.4. Had something to
> > > do with cpu cx states, acpi, or something like that, that my
> > > audio worked nicely. Previously it had to be on at cx 1 to work
> > > properly. It works properly at others now.
> > 
> > 	I'm running 5.3 everywhere except for my Ubuntu server.
> > 	No need/reason to move to v 6.X as far as I'm concerned.
> > 	I may not have moved over the new linuxpluginwrapper file 
> > 	to /etc. I can't think of any other  reason that mplayer 
> > 	would hang after every 1+ sec or that realplay would 
> > 	sound off/quiver/echo.  
> > 
> > 	But:  before I go  and change wm's and wind up with
> > something that just doesn't work, there's lots of testing to do.  
> 
> I would suggest cvsuping to the newest 5.x. I had problems with one
> of the older versions of 5.x on my laptop till it was fixed in one of
> the commits.


	Underway.  I always read UPGRADING nowadays, but if there
	are any recent gotchas, please drop a line.  I've got a 
	week before I more/less vanish into studyland for a few 
	months.  The more I can get done now, the happier, &c.

	thanks,

	gary



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