Re: Starting again from Scratch

Special thanks to Roland, Nikola, Manolis, Peter, Giorgos,
Jonathon
for some great replies on this thread.

I have now done a re-install from scratch. Essentially I
have done
a 'minimal' install (no ports/pkgs)- wow, this took
literally just 
a few minutes.

Next I 'portsnap fetch' and 'portsnap extract'

I then did 'make install' first for Xorg then next for Xfce4
metas.

And, yes, this took quite some time 

Afterwards I have used the fetched ports for adding all the
dekstop
stuff I like / use.

And on advice I will use portmaster to track events on these
softs.

So, now I am happy with my new FreeBSD desktop. There are a
few
small glitches though.

audacious - where did the plugins go? The site seems down as
do the
alternatives. I tried the plugins src from OpenBSD altho
slightyly
behind by 0.0.1 but cant get any sound?

I am using xmms now, I mainly play audio streams
(www.somafm.com or
www.swissgroove.ch)

Is there any other player I 'should know about' ie is more
actively
developed / supported? Beep? Zinf? Suggestions invited 

And ... I cant mount my (other os) msdosfs as a user, Im
sure I have
done this before, driving me nuts, cant think what I havent
done?

--fstab entry--
/dev/ad0s5 /mnt/dosd	msdosfs rw 2	2
/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/dosc	msdosfs rw 2	2
/mnt etc is 666 owned by root:wheel and my user is part of
wheel group?

And lastly, cups webmin:631 refuses my root password ... is
this a
cupsd.conf setting ?

As usual any advice on above greatly appreciated.

Greetings from not so sunny North West UK !
























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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:51:16PM +0100, Graham Bentley
wrote:
> 
> audacious - where did the plugins go? The site seems
down as do the
> alternatives. I tried the plugins src from OpenBSD
altho slightyly
> behind by 0.0.1 but cant get any sound?

They're in a seperate port now;
multimedia/audacious-plugins. If you
can't fetch the tarball, I've got
audacious-plugins-1.3.5.tgz sitting in
distfiles. 

> And ... I cant mount my (other os) msdosfs as a user,
Im sure I have
> done this before, driving me nuts, cant think what I
havent done?
> 
> --fstab entry--
> /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/dosd	msdosfs rw 2	2
> /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/dosc	msdosfs rw 2	2
> /mnt etc is 666 owned by root:wheel and my user is part
of wheel group?

The directory where you want to mount must be _owned_ by the
user.

> And lastly, cups webmin:631 refuses my root password
... is this a
> cupsd.conf setting ?

I've got the following in cupsd.conf, which Works For Me;

LogLevel info
Port 631
Browsing Off

<Location />
   Order Deny,Allow
   Deny From All
   Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

<Location /admin>
   AuthType Basic
   AuthClass System
   Order Deny,Allow
   Deny From All
   Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

Roland
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