installing gentoo....

Lucifer · 6 Nov 2002 at 11:02

kewl, pls

so, still to fix:
mouse scroll wheel
fonts
tweak of the PS1 thing....

at the mo PS1="[\\u@\\h:\\w]\\$ " looks right, exceps that it shows the entire path rather than the directory it shows (eg) [root@gentoo:/usr/src]# but i would prefer [root@gentoo:src]# if thats possible.
sound
uh... i'm sure i'll find more stuff

then i'll have you all scratching your heads later when i need to make my sendmail server accessible via POP3

Nozzer · 6 Nov 2002 at 14:14

PS1="[\u@\h : \W]#"

Will get you the above.

Mpemba Effect · 6 Nov 2002 at 16:21

To make it stay in your xterm add it into your .bashrc if you haven't already

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 15:43

added it to /etc/skel/.bashrc and it still starts with bash-2.05a#

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 15:51

Ah!

... don't touch the /etc/ configs unless you know what your doing

you'll need to create a file in your home called .bashrc and add it into that

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:00

doh
sorted

now to fix the rest : /

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:20

OK lets sort out the mouse. Theres a proggy which displays mouse buttons. Can't remember whats it's called though but will help to see if X is detecting you buttons. I'll try to find out what it's called

Oh yeah while I'm looking post up you XF86Config ... just the Mouse section

Nozzer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:20

You want it in your .bash_profile ...

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:27

woohoo! i got sound working!!!
i "built in" sound card support rather than having it as a module, and included AC 97 support (i think) but its working

so i'm happy

now... XF86Config...

Code:

#**********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
#**********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux
    Option "Button" "5"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Resolution" "2000"

Nozzer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:29

Change

Code:

Option "Protocol"    "PS/2"

To read

Code:

Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:34

Oops my bad! Add

Code:

Option "Buttons" "5"

That should work.

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:48

woohoo! got scrolly!

/kisses mpemba

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:50

Ah!! I got kissed by the Devil! :eek:

...ok whats this about fonts?

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:54

is this the right line to add to /etc/fstab to mount my windows partition (/dev/hda1) as /mnt/win?

Code:

# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>          
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /mnt/win        vfat            defaults

Lucifer · 7 Nov 2002 at 16:55

oh yea... need purdy TT AA fonts

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 17:02

yeah that should work.

On your other drives which don't mount automatically like the cdrom and floppy, if you add users on the end like:

Code:

noauto,ro,users

This will allow normal users to mount the drive. Rather than only superuser

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 17:05

Originally posted by Lucifer
oh yea... need purdy TT AA fonts

Ah I'll leave that for Nozzer or someone

... I had a look a while back at AA and saw xft and all sorts of stuff ... I decided the fonts look pretty good as they are

Nozzer · 7 Nov 2002 at 17:19

There's a fluxbox patch to give you AA fonts, I have it pre-applied/compiled onto the flux source tree if you want it.

I'm not sure how to get Moz/Phoenix to use them as I don't use either, but the fluxbox desktop does fine, on my laptop.

Mpemba Effect · 7 Nov 2002 at 17:42

I think it's this http://oberdorf.org/oly/index.php?section=Computers&subsection=OlyWare&detail=FluxBoxAA