BMPx problem

[greencross]

Hi guys.
I've been experimenting with various media players (audio). All worked well except BMPx. When I launched it from the main menu I got this:



Then I tried % dbus-launch beep-media-player-2 and the result was:



Any ideas?

[graudeejs]

enable dbus in rc.conf

dbus_enable="YES"

and try then....
idk if it will help....
BMP is pretty buggy thing.... I was using it myself but gave up and switched to mplayer.... which rock in so many ways

[greencross]

Nah. The same output. It's not so critical anyway.

[Carpetsmoker]

You can also try compiling BMPx without HAL.

[BSDKaffee]

Are dbus-daemon and hald actually running?

To get them both running at boot time, you must add to /etc/rc.conf:

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

To get them running without rebooting (run in this order since dbus must start before hal):

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start

[renej]

Thanks a lot BSDKaffee ... I had the same problem and this seems to have solved at least THAT issue

[greencross]

First I tried to run BMPx under Openbox and got only the second message. Then I followed BSDKaffe's suggestions (thanks ). As a result the program runs under Openbox without any problem so far, but under XFCE i still have to use
% dbus-launch beep-media-player-2
I must have turned off DBUS support in one of XFCE ports during compillation.

[BSDKaffee]

I am not familiar with XFCE, but you probably need to adjust your ~/.xinitrc so that a dbus session is available to your applications.

You may want to try an ~/.xinitrc that looks like this:

/usr/local/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
eval `dbus-launch`
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

It's BSDKaffee BTW - German coffee, not Italian

[greencross]

Originally Posted by BSDKaffee

It's BSDKaffee BTW - German coffee, not Italian

Ups, sorry.
Fixed.