My last grievances...

static · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2002 11:11 pm Post subject: My last grievances...

Hi! I have now successfully installed gentoo and KDE. That's it. Got my USB mouse working, except the wheel (logitech optical wheel USB). I'm really hoping you guys can help me with the following before I go back to dialup on Saturday...

How do I get static allowed to mount CDROMS and the floppy & not just root? Also reboot and shutdown...
Do I need an fstab entry for the floppy?
Will I be able to burn CD's as static once I (we ;) solve this mounting issue - or is there more I need to know before it'll work? Scratch this - help fuzz in "CD-RW" and I'll read it there :)
How do I get numlock to turn on on bootup?

About the mousewheel (need that for quake 3) - I have

dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

well for your floppy you can add something like:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
the first auto option tells the linux to autodect the floppys filesystem, so you should be able to mount linux and dos floppys with the same command
and the noauto,user tells linux not to mount the floppy at boottime and the user option will let anyone mount the floppy

you might be able to just type the mount command for the floppy without an entry, it depends on how relaxed the permissions for /dev/fd0 are

as to letting normal users mount the cdrw drive (or any drive for that matter) just add the user option to the fstab file like i have up above for the floppy

as to the numlock i know ive seen how to do this before ( i think it was on mandrake) but i cant quite remember if its a kernel option, an init option, or something else altogether... ill look around

good luck with the burner

chemical · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: San Diego, CA

I use the same mouse. Well at least it appears the same. Optical Logitech USB whell mouse. I use the following in my config and the wheel works great.

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5

Brent Jackson · Guest

About the mouse...

To get the scroll wheel working in X, in the InputDevice section here is what I have:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

That works for me, I have a Logitech Mouseman Wheel Optical (USB). Hope that helps
ya.

static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:23 am Post subject:

OK mouse works! So does mounting devices - Thanks!
To allow a user to reboot and halt?

and

hd_what_ is secondary master? (my burner) Need that to append to menu.lst (hdc=ide-scsi or whichever hd_)

Quake 3 gives me this:

squanto · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:35 am Post subject:

Num lock, in kde, go to control center, choose perhipherals, then keyboard. Pick advanced, and then choose to turn on num lock when kde starts.
This will turn it on for kde, but only if you have X running, which I assume you do...
As for other window managers, I have no idea about getting it to turn on, Linux by default turns it off, cause when I start my machine, my bios turns it on, then linux turns it off, and then KDE turns it back on.

for secondary master it would be hdc

as for quake, first try emerge libsdl , after doing emerge rsync.
I had lots of problems with opengl and nvidia card because the version of libsdl I had was built incorrectly but the version that is out now works. some how the old version broke opengl.

Hope that helps some.

-Andrew

squanto · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:50 am Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=680&highlight=

for my troubles with opengl along with

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=389&highlight=

-Andrew

static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 2:58 pm Post subject:

I have an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR vivo, not Nvidia, but I will try that emerge libsdl when I'm home from work.
Do you have to do an emerge rsync everytime you're about to an emerge on a fresh boot?

Anyone reboot & halt as user, or do you always su to root just to power down?
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squanto · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject:

I emerge rsync every day or two right now, but that is just cause I am still getting my machine setup how I want, but I would do it before you emerge a package just so you get the most up to date stuff. It can't hurt, but if you are on a slow connection, like once a week would probably be enough.
I use the KDE menu's logout and then just choose turn off computer, or i su to halt / reboot.
you could probably just make the halt / reboot commands be executable by group "specialusers" and then make yourself a "specialuser" or something like that I would think, but I have not tried this myself. Although when I view the permissions on my /sbin/halt it shows that others can execute it.

Not sure if ATI cards affected by libSDL, but it wouldn't hurt to update to newest version first and then see what happens.

-Andrew

SyN

To activate numlock on all your ttys at bootup, just follow those steps (being logged as root) :

- Create a file named "numlock" (or wathever name you may like) in /etc/init.d/ with the following content :

Xamot · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 29

I had very little problem getting quake3 running on gentoo with an NVidia card. There is a thread in the Urban Terror forums that is pretty helpfull.

http://forums.urbanterror.net/default.asp?action=getTopic&discussionID=23&topicID=721

There are quite a few q3ut2 players using gentoo I think. The Urban Terror Linux forum was helpful for me, but I play Urban Terror almost exclusively.

Good Luck.

Curious · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:17 am Post subject:

elboricua · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 4:53 am Post subject: Shutdown To Users

To allow any user to shutdown, or reboot the system you have to do the following:

Create a file named shutdown.allow in /etc. The shutdown.allow file should list the usernames of any users who are allowed to shutdown the system. The format of the /etc/shutdown.allow file is a list of usernames, one per line, like the following:
john
paul
george
ringo

Next edit /etc/inittab and add -a to the end of all lines related to shutdown. This will tell the system to look at the shutdown.allow file to see if that user is able to shutdown the system.
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jabuka · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 1:37 am Post subject: numlock...

- SyN -

i tried the script you wrote but i can't seem to get it to work. i already had a numlock file in my /etc/init.d/ folder and i mistakingly over-wrote it with your version of the numlock file. nothing good or bad happened, the numlock still doesn't start up. what could i be doing wrong?

mark

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 5:56 am Post subject: Re: Shutdown To Users

Utoxin · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:36 am Post subject:

Is the user a member of the wheel group? That might help.

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:37 am Post subject:

Utoxin · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:40 am Post subject:

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:44 am Post subject:

voicu@rothsupport voicu $ groups
wheel audio cdrw apache
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Utoxin · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 6:48 am Post subject:

Oh... I thought that was a good yes, not a bad yes. Sorry, man.
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Houdini · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 8:18 pm Post subject:

Pardon me for being simplistic, but why not use ctrl+alt+del ? The definition of what it does sits in /etc/inittab:

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