Adventures in Linux

Arch linux Hal

2009-03-09T19:09:00.001-07:00

For keyboard/ mouse to work after an Arch Linux install, you need to do this :

pacman -S hal dbus

then go in to /etc/rc.conf and put hal in the DEAMONS line like this :
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs ...)

Gentoo kernel command

2009-03-09T06:31:00.001-07:00

make && make modules_install && make install && module-rebuild rebuild

Hell with Gentoo : A complete and utter retards guide to installing.

2009-03-09T01:37:00.000-07:00

Hell with Gentoo : A complete and utter retards guide to installing.

Install from Live CD.
Reboot.
open up a console and Issue emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world
Wait a few hours for completion.
Open a console and issue the following commands :
rm /usr/src/linux
rm /boot/vm-TAB
rm everything in here except for Grub (the directory) (so at the command line issue rm /boot/ then hit tab a few times and just remove all of it (not Grub)

CD in to /usr/src/l-TAB Where l is the beggining of the file starting with l and tab completes it. This is your kernel (one of the things you just deleted) source.

You should now be in /usr/src/linux-2.*.** (these numbers could be anything)

At the command line, issue genkernel --menuconfig all

It will shit it's self a few seconds, then provide you with a prompt with many many options that will no doubt cause your very person to implode in to the temporal-flux of the space-time contiuum cuasing your gravemtric sub-systems to flush in to a temporal rift. Right now, I know how you feel. You're not alone, I knew less then you (trust me) so bare with me :

There should be many things selected (little (*)'s next to them) that's good. To make these selections, hit space, make sure they are not M's because that's a module and we want the kernal to have everything built in for now.

OK, so, go to device drivers in that menu thing you're in. If it looks like you may have something you see, enable it (space) if it looks like there's not much chance you'll have it, enable it. Infact - for the purpose of this guide, I really want you to just not worry about how much stuff you enable (within reason) in these device drivers/network /sound and all those really important kind of options. Later on down the track you can rebuild your own custom kernel and do what you want but for now we want to get you in to Gentoo.

OK, exit the kernl dialogue you are in using it's exit option untill all exits have been exhasuted, it will ask you if you want to save the config, select yes.

It will now shit it'self again for a time. When it stops, issue the following commands :

ln -s /usr/src/(type l then hit TAB) /usr/src/linux
nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Here you change the kernel line in the somewhat complicated lines of crapola to be the same kernel you just made. To know what to put there, issue ls /boot/ in a command and you'll see the new kernel you just made.. if you can't tell, it will be the one with the higher number .. something like kernel-genkernel etc etc (but a higher version) append that to the grub file you opened where it makes sense (so over the other bit with different kernel version)

now emerge nvidia-drivers
reboot

At OS selection, hit e
go to the init row, hit e
delete it all, type in init TAB /inTAB and select the highest version hitting tab untill it completes.
hit enter (or esc) but don't esc out of that screen, stay in it and hit b
you will now boot in to your new kernel but nvidia will not work yet.

issue the following MAGIC command
eselect opengl set nvidia

You just installed Gentoo in roughly 3.2 billion hours less than me and my collectives "Q" esqueue conglomerate.

-edit-
This really should not be on tuxmachines, it was made in a fit of rage and slightly tongue in cheek.

Professional blog : http://www.sydney-linux.com

Arch Linux woes.

2008-01-07T17:30:00.000-08:00

From a core install, I have had to do the following.

nano /etc/locale.gen and uncomment:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1

save and exit.

Default network config is all screwy, not going to run through everything, I'll just post the worknig version of rc.conf.

See below.

---NOTE----
REMEMBER TO CHANGE eth1 to eth0 if you are using a default motherboard NIC (Network/Lan card).

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=(pcspkr)
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
#
MODULES=(atl1 mii slhc ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-emu10k1 snd-hda-intel soundcore snd-util-mem)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
HOSTNAME="Tony"
#
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available
# interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth1)
#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
#
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
#
#NET_PROFILES=(main)

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)

# End of file

After this pacman -Sy nvidia
pacman -S fluxbox
pacxman -S openbox
pacman -S gedit

Now nano ~/.xinitrc
exec fluxbox or openbox, you're choice.

Working xorg for this rig somewhere on this site.

Irony!!!

2007-10-15T18:53:00.000-07:00

Consider this.

Column A).
Windows users are considered bound and chained by people in the free software movement(note that I do not use the terminology “Open-source” as they are 2 very different things).
The free software (and open-source) movements set to relief people of their cuffs/chains and set them free in to a world where every thing is only limited by their own imagination.

Column B).
Now consider me, someone who has relieved themselves of their social chains and moved past everything and anything socially “subscribed” where appearance and self exploration is only limited by my own imagination – oh, and I forgot to mention, I am a fond free-software advocate and promoter (just to push the emphasis envelope). - and supposedly, I'm a stereo-type?

Now consider the folk from column A. insulting, well, me – from column B.
Now how the fuck do you work that out?

And for the very/EXACT same reasons free-software/open-source/Linux exist – you have pretty much asserted your entire metaphorical leg down your own throat.

Irony.

home server

2007-08-05T20:54:00.000-07:00

home server
http://blindraven.servegame.org

Console/Framebuffer goodies for your *nix

2007-07-31T23:46:00.000-07:00

get these from the ubuntu repo's using synaptic or aptget.
Both work in framebuffer/console so you dont even need X to use them, quite neat.

mp3blaster
tmsnc

How to find out your max framebuffer res

2007-07-31T21:32:00.000-07:00

sudo apt-get install hwinfo
sudo hwinfo --framebuffer

Getting rid of the boot splash and getting a decent resolution for the framebuffer to boot!

2007-07-31T21:16:00.000-07:00

edit the menu.lst file in /boot/grub (or similar)

the line you are looking for is
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=6e9d6372-8bd5-4bd9-aed8-0329837cf47f ro splash vga=794 quiet

Take away splash and quiet.

To set the screen resolution to 1024x768, insert into the appropriate line: "vga=791"

Some common frambuffer resolutions are:
640x480 - 785
800x600 - 788
1024x768 - 791
1152x864 - 355
1280x1024 - 794
1600x1200 - 798

Automatix - fully functional, no fear of package break.

2007-07-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

To download the Ubuntu Automax script , go to the following link and get the matching deb.

http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Ubuntu_7.04_.28Feisty_i386.29

Automaix installs everything (from a list which you can tick off) from codecs to movie players to chat clients to internet browsers, utility's and torrent software and even includes self installing Nvidia drivers which will recognise your card and update accordingly.

Getting your Soundblaster Audiy 2zs to work with ubuntu when you already have VIA/Realtec etc drivers set as default

2007-07-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

Alright, this was a huge issue for me for so long, I finally got it working though.
This will work with any Soundblaster card (in this case an Audigy 2ZS) and the trouble shoot purpose is when you already have a onboard card and you cant figure out how to get rid of it or get sound through your install.

Firstly, go to System/preferences/sound and make sure your Audiy/soundcard is checked under devices and set the rest of the tabs to "Auto" , what we are about to do will always work so just make sure you do this and nothing else.

Now, open up a terminal and and issue the following command command:
sudo asoundconf list

Now, you will see a list of card you have, in this case it is:
VT82XX
Audigy2

You want to set the default to the audigy card so issue another command:
sudo asoundconf set-default-card Audigy2

Your default card is now the Audigy, now type in alsamixer and all should be fine, make sure digital is enabled (it will be automatically normally) and adjust everything to how you see fit.

Once you are done configuring everything store your alsa settings with the following command:
sudo alsactl store

Just to make sure, also right click on your volume icon in your gnome--panel up top and make sure the preference drop-down tab is also set to your card and obviously make sure its on master.

xorg.conf for Nvidia 7600gt running at 1440x900 (widescreen) on a 19inch proview.

2007-07-28T23:21:00.000-07:00

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Feb 26 23:38:46 PST 2007

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection