interesting past 4 hours...

[Vulpes Velox]

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.