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Thanks mav@, I popped the cover off and there's no audio cable on the CD. That explains it. Next time I'm feeling frisky, I'll look deeper and see if I can find the place on the motherboard where one would go. Dave

Hi, I configured my sound card, and it works fine, except: cdcontrol will "play" an audio CD, but no actual sound comes out the speakers. 7.2.2 Testing the Sound Card If your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive's audio-out pins are properly connected to your sound card, you can put a CD in the drive...

Rolf, I purchased the RTD sensors for auberins.com I think the two in the HLT and MT were PT100-L50NPT and the BOIL kettle was a metric size which I can't find right now. The RTD controller is an 8033 from SuperLogics.com...

Thanks everyone, You've given me a lot to think about. The virtual appliance is probably the cleanest way to go, but it requires a fairly modern computer system. My pilot brewery uses the physical vessel and plumbing setup from http://www.theElectricBrewery.com. But thence I diverged. I...

This might not be the right forum for this question. I’m not sure if there is a right forum. I’m developing software on FreeBSD for an advanced home beer brewery, and I might want to sell the software in the future. But how can I distribute it? The target customer would have a spare...

Well, that brings up another subject Thanks Tingo, Yes, that would work fine. Initially, I kldload'ed snd_driver, then did a cat /dev/sndstat to see which particular driver my hardware used. I decided to build support for both Linux and my particular sound driver into my kernel for three...

SOLVED - it works! After reloading the ports collection using portsnap, everything worked fine. It was somewhat of a struggle though. Many of the "make install"s failed, and the messages said I had to "deinstall" a certain (dependency) port, and then "reinstall" the current one. I did this...

SOLVED - Many thanks A combination of .xinitrc and .Xdefaults did exactly what I wanted it to. .xinitrc opens the windows the way I want them to look initially. .Xdefaults not only allows finer control of the window appearance, but it makes any new xterms opened by twm look good too - in case...

Thank you I was hoping to get everything I needed out of my shiny new FreeBSD 8.1 box set. Previously, I was running 5.x (and before that, 4.x and 3.x) until I needed something that just wasn't available anymore. I guess I'm just one of those out-of-date guys... portsnap is busy...

Solved! Well, not solved yet, but you got me going in the right direction. Already learned how to start up with the xterms in nice locations on the screen, autostart firefox, and twm as a "minimalist" window manager. I'll do my homework and figure out the darn font thing. Thanks! Dave

Hi, I installed Xorg on my 8.1 system. "startx" gives me a login and 2 xterm windows. The text is so small that I need to use reading glasses. How can I make it bigger? It's a special-purpose machine, so I only need to do two things - run Firefox and vi. Firefox works fine. So I don't...

make makesum - got me a little further... DutchDaemon, Thanks. I ran make makesum, and it succeeded. now make gives me this. Yuck! Any ideas? Gosh, I never thought this would be so difficult. I'm running portsnap fetch now. That should keep me busy for a little while. Dave brewery#...

Hi, FreeBSD 8.1 - I'm trying to install the Flash Plugin for Firefox on FreeBSD 8.1 I'm using the directions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html - Section 6.2.3 "Firefox and Adobe® Flash™ Plugin" (2) Under FreeBSD 8.X "Install the www/nspluginwrapper port."...