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Want to use wvdial on FreeBSD? We need volunteers to help test current patches, to help fix patches if they don't work on a particular FreeBSD system, to figure out how to build on 64 bit FreeBSD and not just 32 bit and to get the patches into a suitable format that the wvdial maintainer can...

This site has a list of some of the USB audio devices working with NetBSD. http://www.clarestudio.org/music/status.html Not sure how compatible FreeBSD is with NetBSD as far as audio support and drivers. However, if it's working in NetBSD, there may be a way to port it to FreeBSD...

Still looking for most compatible hardware options, but it looks like someone got midi to work: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org/msg03682.html Was also looking at the Cakewalk UA-1G for a 24-bit/96kHz USB Audio Interface, but not sure if that will work with...

My M-Audio 2496 card just died and I need to replace it. Would like to purchase audio hardware that will be compatible with FreeBSD when I do. Was thinking of getting a USB replacement (or possibly Firewire) instead of a PCI card, since it looks like latest motherboards are phasing out PCI...

Thanks for the information. I'm thinking of giving the upgrade from cdrom option a try after I backup or document any changes I made. Sounds like the easiest option for now. Thanks for the info on updating from source. I'll check into that as well. The main reason I wanted to update the...

I'm currently running FreeBSD 7.2 on an old, low resource laptop. I added a lot of programs as packages, but I've also built several from scratch (some not even in ports). The only connection to the machine is basically sneaker-net (DVD or USB 1.0). Is there an easy way to update to the...

Speaking as a programmer, there are 3 things I think we could use to help further Open Source development in the area of accessibility. 1. A list of rules of thumb or guidelines for what would make programs more accessible. Am thinking of something like the 508E guidelines for web pages...

I've been curious about this topic as well. I read some posts on the inx mailing list ( http://lists.inx.maincontent.net/htdig.cgi/inx-inx.maincontent.net/2008-December/000188.html ) about command line programs being useful for accessibility. Would be very curious to find out more about how...

If there are any other SciTE (programming editor) users, you can get a calculator running fairly quickly just by adding a Lua script. The Lua code for a nice text drawn calculator is available here along with other calculator examples: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteScripts See the...

I'm still learning the ins and outs, but so far, Microsoft definitely seems easier to update if you don't have Internet access. It might be a nuisance to find the service packs at their site, but you can download on any operating system, burn to disk and sneaker net to your Windows box if it's...

If anyone's got any more details or links to more info on this, a tutorial, etc., please post. I'd like to give this a try. I downloaded the packages, but still have to set them up properly before I can test it out on my machine. Tried asking on the SDL mailing list about running SDL...

In Openbox, you should be able to Alt-Tab to any Window and have it cycle through your windows. If it's minimized, Alt-Tab will usually restore to normal size. Personally, I like the Alt-Tab feature better than having a panel in a window manager, but that's just my preference. I usually set...

Wasn't sure where to post this, so please move if it belongs elsewhere. Am running a very old laptop without a lot of memory (just 64 MB RAM). While I can run X applications on it, several people have recommended I try applications that don't require X. Would be curious to hear from others...

That looks like really good. Did you do anything special on startup to run it or just call from you .xinitrc file? I happen to like the fact you can change the settings in the header file, but then I'm a C/C++ programmer. It's one less format you have to learn, if you can just use standard...

I didn't notice a thread just for dwm ( http://dwm.suckless.org/ ), so thought I'd start one. Seems like a very nice window manager once you get it set up the way you want it. Might take a while to get it set up properly though. There's a good tutorial on customization at the site...

Downloaded lxtask package, which is a nice application all by itself. It seemed to install fine, but funny thing was, it wouldn't show any tasks running or how much memory I was using. Anyone else run into an issue like this? Was thinking of rebuilding from the source code, but haven't had...

Although this is a bit off topic for an openbox/fluxbox comparison thread, I was testing out dwm as well as openbox and fluxbox. It may be more like what you're looking for. It has tiled, floating and a monocle mode when you want one application full screen. You can see...

Just curious if anyone else has seen a difference in RAM usage between Fluxbox and Openbox. I've tried checking how much memory is being used with conky and when I'm running Fluxbox it seems like I'm not using as much as when I'm running Openbox (with no accessories like tint panel, etc)...

For backing up DVDs you own or have created yourself, a lot of people on the VideoHelp forum ( http://www.videohelp.com/ ) have recommended this program: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=vstrip&stype=all It's usually used in conjunction with a program like dvdauthor (or DVDStyler...

I keep wondering just how much extra memory and CPU HAL is taking up on a low end system like the one I'm currently using. When I tried out a few Linux distributions the machine seemed noticeably more responsive using a distribution without HAL turned on. There's a project used by Vector...