multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
I have some questions about multimedia and desktop: 1) How can I to able sound in DragonFly? 2) How can I to able screesaver in X (especially Fluxbox)? 3) How can I set backgrounds (wallpapers) in fluxbox? 4) How can I try automatically gkrellm and other tools over Fluxbox in DragonFly? Thanks,

filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-10 Thread Trismegistos
hello to everyone, there are plans to change the filesystem hierarchy to simplify the programs management? I've saw the gobolinux project (www.gobolinux.org). They have change the filesystem, and they are using the filesystem as a package manager. I'm an university student, and as a school

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
1) kldload snd_... or inserting line snd_..._enable=YES into rc.conf snd_..._enable=YES What I must put in ..., it depends by card? __ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto spazio gratuito per

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Yury Tarasievich
On 10/11/06, Saverio Iacovelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) kldload snd_... or inserting line snd_..._enable=YES into rc.conf snd_..._enable=YES What I must put in ..., it depends by card? Right. Or you can load *everything*, by doing kldload snd or by inserting snd_load=YES, if this flies

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
The following is my audio card (from pciconf -lv): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:17:5: class=0x040100 card=0x82121565 chip=0x30591106 rev=0x60 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc' device = 'VT8233/33A/8235/8237/8251 AC97 Enhanced Audio Controller - the 8251 controller is different' class

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Fri, November 10, 2006 6:34 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote: 2) How can I to able screesaver in X (especially Fluxbox)? In your .xinitrc or .startx file - whichever you use: xscreensaver before your line that starts fluxbox. You need to install xscreensaver from pkgsrc. 'xscreensaver-demo'

Re: filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Fri, November 10, 2006 6:57 am, Trismegistos wrote: hello to everyone, there are plans to change the filesystem hierarchy to simplify the programs management? I've saw the gobolinux project (www.gobolinux.org). They have change the filesystem, and they are using the filesystem as a package

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Excuse for my stupid questions, but what I must write in snd_... As Yury wrote before, try 'kldload snd' from the prompt to see if your card is detected. If yes, put snd_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-10 Thread Yury Tarasievich
So, you do *not* mean the well-known wrappers tricks (LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc.) made into system policy? ---

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
4) How can I try automatically gkrellm and other tools over Fluxbox in DragonFly? Install them from pkgsrc and then run them? There may be something to your question I'm missing. I've installed gkrellm from pkgsrc, and I tried typing 1) /usr/pkg/bin/gkrellm 2) /usr/pkg/bin/gkrellm 3) exec

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Yury Tarasievich
...and then look into /var/log/messages to try to figure out what *exactly* worked. Then you may narrow it down to snd_..._load. ---

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
I must create /boot/loader.conf, because that file don't exist. #ls /boot loader* loader loader.4th loader.help loader.rc loader_tftp loader_tftp.help __ Do You Yahoo!? Poco spazio e tanto spam? Yahoo! Mail ti protegge dallo spam e ti da tanto

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Fri, November 10, 2006 10:13 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote: I must create /boot/loader.conf, because that file don't exist. #ls /boot loader* loader loader.4th loader.help loader.rc loader_tftp loader_tftp.help There's a /boot/defaults folder that holds an example loader.conf file; you

Re: filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-10 Thread Thomas E. Zander
Hello, Am Fri, dem 10. Nov 2006, um 12:57 +0100 Uhr schrubte Trismegistos zum Thema [filesystem hierarchy]: I've saw the gobolinux project (www.gobolinux.org). They have change the filesystem, and they are using the filesystem as a package manager. This idea isn't new at all. Some people

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: I must create /boot/loader.conf, because that file don't exist. Yes, you must. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I've installed gkrellm from pkgsrc, and I tried typing 1) /usr/pkg/bin/gkrellm 2) /usr/pkg/bin/gkrellm 3) exec /usr/pkg/bin/gkrellm in .xinitrc and in init files, but it don't appears at boot of fluxbox. Just run it from an xterm. What happens then?

Re: filesystem hierarchy

2006-11-10 Thread Gergo Szakal
Matthew Dillon wrote: At the moment we have no plans to integrate package management directly into the filesystem layer. We do have tools already available (varsyms) to make this possible, and pkgsrc makes things easier by installing into /usr/pkg, leaving /usr/local available

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread walt
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: I have some questions about multimedia and desktop: ... 2) How can I enable screensaver in X (especially Fluxbox)? I strongly favor using the power-saving DPMS feature of your monitor instead of using xscreensaver. DPMS will save power by blanking the screen and it