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[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:30:10 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> If you're already running GNOME 2.5, and want to take the next step, we
> need specific help testing nautilus-cd-burner (especially the cd-drive.c
> patch at http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-cd-drive.c), as well
> as the new gstreamer[-plugins], Nautilus' volume monitor code,
> gnome-network, and Evolution 1.5:
>
> * n-c-b: Check to see if it recognizes different CD/DVD burners
> correctly.  Make sure it can successfully write CD/DVD contents.  You
> may need to familiarize yourself with
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15.

Works perfect here on CD-RW.

# camcontrol devlist
<SEAGATE ST336706LW 0109>          at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)
<TEAC CD-W516EB 1.0A>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,cd0)

> * gstreamer[-plugins]: Make sure your favorite plug-in works.  Try
> testing out gst-capable apps such as rhythmbox, gst-mixer,
> nautilus-media, etc.

Without anything relate with the sound stuff, the video stuff works fine 
here now in the current version. Before, they wasn't work.

> * Nautilus' volume monitor code: The volume monitor code has been
> completely re-written in GNOME 2.5, and I'm much happier with the
> FreeBSD code.  I've tried to make the functionality as close to Linux as
> possible, but you never know.  What you should test here is make sure a
> mounted CD/DVD or floppy disk shows up on the desktop.  You should also
> be able to do ``sysclt vfs.usermount=1'' then add an entry to fstab
> where the mount point is owned by a user other than root, then see that
> icon on your desktop even when the disk is not mounted.  You should then
> be able to right-click on the icon, and mount the disk.

A simple typo: s/sysclt/sysctl/g vfs.usermount=1

Anyway, it doesn't work in here, I am not sure if I am doing it correct. I 
have created ~/cdrom (mezz user) then add in the fstab following:

===============================
/dev/acd0		/usr/home/mezz/cdrom	cd9660	ro,noauto	0	0
===============================

But, it always work if I mount it by command line and a CD icon will 
appear in the desktop, no matter what user I mounted as.

Boy, I always want 'user or users' feature to be add in fstab on FreeBSD 
like Linux has.

> * gnome-network: This is a new suite in GNOME 2.5.  It allows you to
> launch remote RSH and SSH sessions as well as offers a MacOS X
> netinfo-like app that lets you run ping, traceroute, whois, etc.  While
> the interface info is not complete yet, all of the various network tests
> should work.

The SSH (gnome-remote-shell) works perfect here. The netinfo's 'Devices' 
tab doesn't work, which everything display as 'not available'. The 
Traceroute doesn't work very well, which it will lag itself and I don't 
think it output the info correct. All other tabs like Ping, Netstat and 
etc work perfect.

I will play with the other stuff more later to see if there has any bug or 
whatever.

Cheers,
Mezz


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