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M.HirschPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
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- how can i update my ports collection? (if this helps) is reinstalling from sysintall and supplying the freebsd ftp-server as source enough? (then there is no more recent version http://bbs.prog365.com/images/sites/frown.gif)
- or does anyone know how to get xine to work on freeBSD using other ways?


Hi there.
I recently started to migrate my client machine to freeBSD. i have nearly everything up and working, but there is one important question left:
some of the software that came with my installation cdroms is quite outdated, what i epecially need is xine.
i tried to install from the ports, but the makefile cannot find xine-0.99.tar.gz on the net (probably it is not around anymore since there is now much newer versions)
i downloaded the sources from the xine homepage, but they don´t compile.
now my question(s):
- how can i update my ports collection? (if this helps) is reinstalling from sysintall and supplying the freebsd ftp-server as source enough? (then there is no more recent version )
- or does anyone know how to get xine to work on freeBSD using other ways?

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M.HirschPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
You say, i can update the whole system using CVSup? And will my configuration files still work? (unlike linux where i have to reconfig for each update again and again)
i only used cvs for source code so far, but hey, it has support for binary files, so why not ?
... i am reading now ... thank you for pointing me in the right direction

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SilverlokkPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
FreeBSD keeps its default configs in /etc/defaults, and you can create .conf files in /etc to override those defaults. For instance, there's nothing in my /etc/defaults/rc.conf to configure my Ethernet card, so in /etc/rc.conf, I have
ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"
If I understand the mechanism rightly, a kernel build will create new /etc/default/*.conf's, so the way to preserve your own settings is through the default override files, normally in /etc/*.conf
Regards

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M.HirschPost at 2011-3-11 12:20 | Show This Author's Posts Only
after i could not make xine work at all, i tried "mplayer". compiled out of the box, works like a charm and it looks even better than xine (technically speaking)
now i am missing good nVidia drivers for X on freeBSD. i got some accelerated ones, but they lack support for GL .
from what i read i feel like i should get a different graphics card soon...



- how can i update my ports collection? (if this helps) is reinstalling from sysintall and supplying the freebsd ftp-server as source enough? (then there is no more recent version http://bbs.prog365.com/images/sites/frown.gif)
- or does anyone know how to get xine to work on freeBSD using other ways?

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