FreeBSD 8.1 32 bits on my Dell Inspiron laptop - Need clarifications

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ganeshmallyap

Hi,

I have recently installed FreeBSD 8.1 32 bits on my Dell Inspiron laptop. I have installed kde gui as per instructions given in url http://www.rhyous.com/2009/12/18/how-to-install-and-configure-a-freebsd-8-desktop-with-xorg-and-kde/. Further I did a upgrade of all existing ports by executing portmaster -a successfully. Though it took couple of days to complete, but completed successfully. I am very impressed with the speed of the internet connection. Truely awsome.

However I am facing the following issues and need some advise to fix them. I tried my level best to search in google.com before posting. But could not really fix them myself -

1. I tried installing flash plugin as indicated in url http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html. But while executing instruction nspluginwrapper -v -a -i I am getting some error. The error message is pasted below. Rest of the steps mentioned in the handbook are completed successfully -

Code: 
        $ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
        Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
        Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins
        /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin: error while loading
        shared  libraries: libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
        or directory
        Auto-install plugins from /home/ganeshp/.mozilla/plugins
        Looking for plugins in /home/ganeshp/.mozilla/plugins

When I open page about:plugins from firefox (3.6.13) browser I can see the followng -

Code: 
    Shockwave Flash
    File: libswfdecmozilla.so
    Version: 
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999
 
    MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
    application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
    application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes

But when I tried to load web pages containing flash animaton material for example facebook->farmville, they fail to load. Neither http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome page is loading properly.

2. I have installed large number of applications by compiling the ports (cd /usr/ports/applicationname && make install clean). But at least half of them dont appear in the start menu. Not sure why there are no shortcuts created for them. Is there any way I can re-create the shortcuts in start menu? I could add them by using menu editor. But adding all the missing shortcuts for every user on my computer is quite tedious.

3. Kmix application will crash when I click on the audio volume increase/decrease button on the laptop. Instead if I click on the kmix icon and move the slider bar, it works fine.

4. After upgrading to kde 4.5.5 kmix is missing altogether. So I am unable to change the laptop speaker volume now.

5. some trivial functionalities such as mouse right click menu etc for konsole have gone missing after the upgrade.

6. I wanted to know how do I turn on intel_3d_enable. I have verified from the FreeBSD handbook that my intel graphics card is supported by FreeBSD.


Any hints or suggestions to fix the above will be highly appreciated.

Regards
GaneshP
 
It's generally a very bad idea to lump so many different questions into a single post. Expect sub-optimal replies to all of them.
 
DutchDaemon said:
It's generally a very bad idea to lump so many different questions into a single post. Expect sub-optimal replies to all of them.
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Sorry about that. Point noted and will ensure from now on.

hello wblock - I executed the pkg_delete instruction as mentioned in your reply. I see the package as removed from the system now. But I am still unable to play any flash based animations.
 
swfdec is another Flash player, and two plugins for the same thing are bound to cause problems. Probably should remove the nspluginwrapper plugins and re-add them:
% nspluginwrapper -a -r
% nsplurinwrapper -a -i
 
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