• 2004
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  • First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...)

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  1. Mike Fletcher

    Mike Fletcher on 06/12/2004 3:51 a.m. #


    Well, ssh failure was just driver error (needed to store in id_key, not identity for ssh2. Did finally figure out what I'd missed wrt binary packages; people are using the packages CD image as their source, not a network server somewhere.

  2. x

    x on 06/14/2004 11:39 p.m. #


    Hey Mike... we have a similar struggle. Yet different. A few hints. "man mount" and search down to the ntfs section... a bunch of option. Use -o to specify them. Can use multiple -o args. What i've been using just now is this:<br />
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    mount -o umask=0022 -r /dev/hda2 /mnt<br />
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    Gives gives read to everyone, though the read-write for root is useless since i mount read-only.<br />
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    I'm writing this now in kde on my 'gorgeous' laptop. The resolution is 1600x1280... desktop centered with black borders down teh side. Sigh. Best i can do until i can get the real ATI drivers working. This is a VESA mode. Can't even get the Xfree radeon driver to work. I think i need to switch to x.org also. <br />
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    Working on getting wireless network working at the moment. Lots of struggles. <br />
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    Glad you found/like eric3. I've heard it's quite good. I never have tried it. As to Konsole... it's absolutely the best terminal emulator program, period! One of the most favorite KDE apps for me: but you know, i'm weird that way. You have fewer terminal needs than I. Anyhow, you can shut off virtually all of the "cruft"... as maybe you've discovered already. Check the settings. Tabs can be hidden. Menu bar can be hidden. Etc. Much flexibility. Much faster moving between tabs though with shift-arrow than alt-tabbing through all windows. At least for me. <br />
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    As to ssh keys. I generated my keys on my freebsd box. Moved them to windows, imported into putty. Now just copied them from the ntfs partition to gentoo home directory. All working fine in all locations. (-: Also keychain agent in gentoo for extra paranoia is good (i use pagent in windows... and password protected keys).<br />
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    Ho hum, kdenetwork compiling in background. Kdepim to go. All just so i can get kdeaddons... (mainly for the konqueror addons)...<br />
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    How did i solve my partition mounting problem? I never did discovery why /dev/hda7 refuses to mount as root. But i discovered that if i eschew the common /dev/hda# symlinks and go directly to the lower level /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 in fstab it mounts okay... someday i'll figure out why maybe. Strange things.<br />
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    I'm very distressed i can't seem to get plastik theme to compile in gentoo so far. It really is practically essential to me! Hmm. Surprised there's no gentoo ebuild for it. Also very aggravating to find Gentoo portage still on zope 2.6... grrr. Oh well, manual install is easy. <br />
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    Oh, plastik is part of kdeartwork now. Ah, guess i have to install that. (I know it sounds dumb, but it really adds some nice usability... believe it or not... highlight's focused controls nicely, and hover effects...)<br />

  3. Mike Fletcher

    Mike Fletcher on 06/15/2004 1:10 a.m. #


    Knew about the mount options, and was trying to specify them *in fstab*, with no luck (I don't want to have to manually mount all 3 data partitions on every launch of Linux (especially not as I'm still switching back and forth all the time)). For now I'm just mounting them as being owned by my main userID, as I don't have other users yet.<br />
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    Turns out that xfree-drm simply doesn't work with Linux 2.6 drivers (at least, that's what the ebuilds say). xfree-drm is the open-source ATI driver for my older card, but you should be able to (and would want to, for your card) use the binary ATI driver, not sure if it's 2.4-specific too.<br />
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    Did finally get OpenGL working, turns out you have to turn on the dri module in XF86Config. Blah. Without the hardware driver it's just silly-slow on this machine (even the P166 laptop feels faster).<br />
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    Konsole without the cruft is better. Still needs ctrl+tab tabbing to use as an MDI app, so I'll probably still go for SDI usage.<br />
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    Will have to look into the agent proggy, I didn't spend any time looking for one when I was installing, so I'm not the safest system in the world ATM.<br />
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    I would have thought wireless would be a cake-walk, I mean, isn't it incredibly common? Luckily I have a plain-old tower case with a good, old-fashioned PCI NIC :) .<br />
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    I think KDE has those hover effects for all themes, doesn't it? I thought I was playing with it yesterday, and I'm using Kermic IIRC.

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