Re: beagle/desktop

[Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

viniosity wrote:
> > True for TV stuff like lacking get MythTV works, but DVD, xvid/divx and
> > any codecs work great with FreeBSD. If I want a PVR, I would grab Linux or
> > Windows instead any of BSD. As for movies like DVD or whatever, any BSD
> > work fine just like Linux.
>
>
> Can BSD play sound from multiple sources at the same time?  Linux has a 
> problem with that..

DFBSD and FreeBSD can, in fact. On FreeBSD-5, all you need to set is 2 
sysctls, and just use /dev/dsp. On FreeBSD4 and DFBSD, you can set the 
same sysctls, but then you need to use /dev/dsp0.1 for one app, and 
/dev/dsp0.2 for another.

I don't know 'm by heart, but doing sysctl -a | grep vchan will show 
them for you. Set the one that's set to 1 to 4 and you're golden. Oh, 
and make sure the /dev entries exist.

> > Beagle requires Mono too, which will not work on FreeBSD 4.x at all. It
> > might be work on DragonFly since it now has TLS, 1:1 thread library and
> > etc. But, it's very possible that there are few things left that to need
> > to be add few stuff like ttyname_r()[1], functions in libc, userlands and
> > etc.

I have no idea what Beagle is other than that it's akin to GNOME 
somehow. Almost everyone that knows me knows I'm a KDE user anyway (and 
KDE works beautifully on DragonFly).

Cheers,
Emiel