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    Configuring sound.

    ALSA stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. On FreeBSD, you use the standard OSS interface. The handbook explains how to set up a sound card. Have you tried following these instructions?
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    Which Release?

    Do you realize that the ports tree is the same for all FreeBSD versions? If you install FreeBSD 5, you'll still get the same ports as you'd get with FreeBSD 8.
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    Is possible to chroot FreeBSD from Linux?

    You probably want sudo chroot /home/m/Desktop/freebsd /bin/sh or simillar. And I don't think it'll work anyway, as FreeBSD and Linux are not binary compatible. But who knows -- maybe Linux has a FreeBSD emulation layer?
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    Which is your Favourite Linux?

    Flash is a pain to install right, but once you get it working, it works about as well as Flash ever worked. Anyway -- another +1 for Arch from me.
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    KDE is either a Ram Hog or misconfigured, It's slow

    Nope. Desktop effects are desktop effects. Semantic Desktop is something else. KDE has this idea that it'll index your files and let you attach tags to them and whatnot. The end result that it goes over each and every one of your files in your $HOME until it manages to index them (indexing has...
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    Compilation Loop?

    Yes, many people have compiled Ktorrent, me included. I would guess that you don't have any part of KDE installed yet, right? Ktorrent is going to compile those parts of KDE that it depends on. That'll take some time, especially if you're on a slow machine. Also all KDE ports display the same...
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    installing python 3.x and python 2.x

    /etc/make.conf. It doesn't exist until you (or something) create it. See man make.conf for some options that can be set.
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    Degraded gmirror

    Try smartctl -i /dev/ad4 and then match the displayed information with information on the stickers on the drives.
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    Degraded gmirror

    I got simillar DMA errors when I connected my brand-new disk. SMART also reported the disk to be fine. In the end, I discovered it was due to loose cabling.
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    To be or not to be. "root" user without the other users.

    And what do you think you'll get if you do everything as root? It is not recommended even under Windows, except that under XP (and earlier) it's a major pain to run as non-Administrator. It is easy to make a mistake that'll ruin your system. Some programs will even refuse to run under root...
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    Thread rating

    Aha. Since it's so rarely used, I don't see the problem with it "cluttering" the forum. However, I don't see a reason to have it either -- especially since it's used so little.
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    Thread rating

    What? There's thread rating? How come I don't see any rating for any thread?
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    How do I set chmod 777?

    Why, yes. It is chmod 777 example. Assuming you're in the directory, where example lives in. More complete demonstration:[starlight] /tmp > mkdir example [starlight] /tmp > ls -ld example drwxr-xr-x 2 oxyd wheel 512 Jul 14 17:15 example % Notice that permissions are 755 initially...
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    Swap Space

    A memory allocation bug like that can bring FreeBSD to a halt fairly easily. I've had that happen as well. If you wait long enough, the system will kill the process and stuff will return back to normal. I still think it's kinda sad that a simple program can effectivelly bring the whole...
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    Kernel log message, regarding CPU error

    I've had something simillar happen to me. My AMD CPU would throw Machine Check Exceptions complaining about ECC errors while fetching data from random places from memory. The system was initially stable as usual, but it would gradually worsen -- especially under heavy CPU usage (games and stuff...
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    quick vim question

    If you already have the block selected, just press >. That will shift the selection shiftwidth characters to the right. See :help > for more info.
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    Boost Error code 1

    That warning should be "harmless" -- it's just a warning, and there's no -Werror in the compile flags. It shouldn't be a reason to stop the build. The internal compiler error is your problem. An ICE is usually due to memory/CPU/other hardware problems, as compilers are usually very thoroughly...
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    FreeBSD Screen Shots

    KDE 4.6.2 -- I'm fairly happy with it!
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    How to run pkg_xxx

    You could also use sudo to use root's privileges for pkg_* stuff. You may set up /etc/sudoers to only allow /usr/sbin/pkg_* for only certain users, if you don't like the idea of giving full root access to those users. Of course, if you're not an admin of the system and the admin doesn't want...
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    KDM not loading after the latest upgrade

    The problem is in /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 itself. Line 41 reads while ! pgrep -fq "^/usr/libexec/getty " > /dev/null 2>&1; do The q in there is spurious and it's what's causing the problem. Remove it and it'll work. And yes, it has been reported.
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