5.4 nitpicking - Totem defaults, etc.

Osmany Guirola Cruz osmany.guirola at cigb.edu.cu
Thu May 26 06:08:16 PDT 2005


I have similar problems with gnome
for example totem, sound juicer ,can't find any optical drives.

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:03 +0200, Josh Ockert wrote:
> I just installed 5.4 and was really amazed at how well put-together it
> was compared to 5.3. Little things like recognizing ISO-8859-1 is in
> use on the console and using + - and | for boxes,  and the wonderful
> preconfiguration for most of GNOME really impressed me.
> 
> One problem I've had though is with Totem. Actually, I've had a few problems.
> 
> First of all, it can't seem to find any optical drives. The drop-down
> box is greyed out. It looks from reading older list postings that I'll
> need to use the SCSI mode CD driver to make this work in FreeBSD. Is
> that right?
> 
> Second of all, I get weird random bugginess. When I play more than one
> song in Totem, it freezes five seconds into the second song. The same
> thing happens if I'm repeating one song. Also, sometimes it seems to
> corrupt video memory; I have to do a cold reboot to get anything
> higher than 640x480 afterward, otherwise I just get a black screen
> that wont fix itself when I switch to a virtual console, and I have to
> reboot. The first time this happened I freaked, thought I broke my
> LCD.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions that'd be great. I'm gonna try to find
> some other advice on totem with gstreamer online. Thanks.
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