Newbie Questions

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue May 17 13:56:05 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:58:51PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a couple of questions I was hoping someone could help me with:
> 
> - I've got an (extremely old) HP Scanjet 4c Scanner hooked up via an Adaptec
> SCSI card to my system. Freebsd seems to recognize this scanner at boot: 
> May 17 20:48:36 cronus kernel: pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> May 17 20:48:36 cronus kernel: pass0: <HP C2520A 3503> Fixed Processor
> SCSI-2 device
> May 17 20:48:36 cronus kernel: pass0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> Would you know of any software (preferably under gnome/X that I can use to
> operate this scanner)?

The 'xsane' port works fine. Also needs the 'sane-backends' port.
 
> - Secondly, I've also got a NEC IDE DVD-RW drive hooked up which the system
> recognizes fine. What software can I use to burn DVDs? All I'm looking for
> is some software (preferably also under X/gnome) that would allow me to make
> backup DVD's of files I have on the drive (i.e. Data DVDs).

For dvds: 'growisofs' (port), for CD's burncd (part of the distribution)
or 'cdrecord' (port). These are command-line programs. cdrecord requires
the use of following devices in the kernel: 'atapicam', 'scbus' 'cd' and
'pass'. More info on my FreeBSD page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/

There are several GUIs for cdrecord, e.g. k3b (KDE) and gcombust
(GTK). Nautilus can also burn CDs with the nautilus-cd-burner port. Try
searching freshmeat.net.

> - Finally, I've just installed gnome and when it starts up, I get the
> following error: No volume control elements and/or devices found. The A8V
> Motherboard on which the system is installed has an inbuilt 8.0 sound card.
> Is there any way I can test this is working under Freebsd. Provided this is
> the case, how can I eliminate the error in gnome?

If you issue the 'mixer' command in a terminal, what kind of output do
you get? It should look something like:

$ mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm      is currently set to  58:58
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line     is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer cd       is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec      is currently set to   0:0
Mixer ogain    is currently set to  50:50
Mixer line1    is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin     is currently set to   0:0
Mixer phout    is currently set to   0:0
Recording source: mic

If not, there are several things that could be wrong, and it depends on
the error you get. Check that you have sufficient permissions on
/dev/mixer (should be crw-rw-rw-)

HTH, Roland

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