From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] Video service on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:43:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213234358.GD64389@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.22.394.2002092151450.22679@waffle.shalott.net>
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 22:09:47 -0800, jason-tuhs at shalott.net wrote:
>
>>> All, I've also set this up to try out for the video chats:
>>> https://meet.tuhs.org/COFF
>>> Password to join is "unix" at the moment.
>
>> Just tried it out. On FreeBSD I get a blank grey screen. I could
>> only get something more on a Microsoft box, not quite what I'd want to
>> do. Is there some trick?
>
> * Install /usr/ports/net-im/jitsi. (Comment out the BROKEN line from the
> Makefile and "make install" should work as usual; the source can actually
> be fetched just fine...)
In fact, the package was indeed unfetchable, but the ports collection
had a cached version, which is what you got. But now I've brought it
up to date (only 2 years old rather than 4).
> * kldload cuse
>
> * Run firefox and surf to that URL.
I haven't found that necessary. In fact, installing jitsi doesn't
seem to be necessary. All you need is a more recent browser than the
antiques I was running.
Greg
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-09 0:48 [COFF] Also, a video service wkt
2020-02-09 2:02 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " wkt
2020-02-09 22:56 ` [COFF] " grog
2020-02-09 23:21 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " bakul
2020-02-10 3:35 ` wobblygong
2020-02-13 23:41 ` [COFF] jitsi on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service) grog
[not found] ` <alpine.LRH.2.22.394.2002092151450.22679@waffle.shalott.net>
2020-02-13 23:43 ` grog [this message]
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