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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: jason-tuhs@shalott.net
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] 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>

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On Sunday,  9 February 2020 at 22:09:47 -0800, jason-tuhs@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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      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-09  0:48 [TUHS] Also, a video service Warren Toomey
2020-02-09  2:02 ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-09 22:56 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-09 23:21   ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10  3:35     ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-13 23:41       ` [TUHS] jitsi on FreeBSD (was: Also, a video service) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-02-10  6:09   ` [TUHS] [COFF] Also, a video service jason-tuhs
2020-02-13 23:43     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]

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