interesting past 4 hours...
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Sat Oct 15 21:12:16 PDT 2005
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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