Urban_Yeti
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Posted: Dec. 31 2004,03:56 |
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Y-ellow all.
And thanks very much. I've been following the advice and doing my own research but I'm not all that much further advanced. Suffering ADD, this stuff really ties me in knots sometimes. However, one thing that occurrs to me is that the bootlocal.sh script in /opt only happens after x is started? IE: only after a user has logged in.
I got SSH to run automatically by editing stuff in rc5.d , rcboot and init.d etc. However the network won't actually come up until I log into X. And even then, it seems to go off waiting for a dhcp response which it won't get because I don't use it on my network. Adding to that, the mouse still won't come up without a re-config of x first. Although I may have indeed fixed that with the mouse script in /opt. I just haven't tried it right now.
I don't know what the difference is between a frugal install and a full HD install. I thought a HD install was a HD install. End of story. I can't boot from a CD so it's not like I can do a live CD thing.
Out of interest and in case you were wondering how I actually got the thing installed. I actually plugged the 200 meg drive into another machine (PII) which COULD boot from the CD. I then did a first stage install to the hard drive on that box. I used all the intended hardware from the target box during this phase but it seems I needn't have bothered as it checks all that on boot anyway. I replaced the network card in the mean time anyway since the 3com card seems to have died.
And also just out of interest. I like the idea of using a projector. But if I could afford a projector, even an old epiphore type, I'd be using it to watch stuff on. Not that I could fit any kind of projector in here and find something flat to project it onto. But I'd often wanted to use a projector like this for live performances. But where the projector is actually projecting back into the audience like they use to do with lasers. The idea is that if there was some degree of focus to the back of the venue, then a computer generated "DOT" on the screen would actually behave somewhat like a laser. Only more colourful and more flexible. But I digress...
The purpose of this project is actually to use up some old technology that would otherwise find it's way into land-fill and be employed as a water-way polluter. The two VGA monitors are old. One of them was given to me with a view to ripping off the VGA cable to make a KVM cable with. The other, a friend found on the street (Literally) during hard rubish collection week. Thinking it was a whole computer (I know some computer illiterate people. Sad by true.) he dumped it at my place along with an old keyboard. I try to let nothing go to waste here and now that there were two identical monitors laying on their backs under my carport, it spawned the idea.
200wats of downlight with filtered gells for colour. Or a pair of computer monitors with coloured phosphor chewing up 200watts with the gain flat out. Do you think I'd take the easy option? The monitors aren't just bolted to the ceiling or anything. My builder mate and I, stripped them down and mounted them _IN_ the ceiling. Behind a long grill which is gold plated no less. (Always carry a suitable sized net, you never know what you might catch.) Now that the studio looks like Saddam's bathroom, I have to get some kind of picture on them. And I haven't even looked at a suitable screen saver to run yet.
I had indeed thought of running a pair of video cards. I tried it but it was looking hard enough just getting x up on the one at the time. Instead I'm stepping back to plan B. which is to simply build a Y adaptor. No buffering since I'll probably be running the monitors near to flat chat anyway. And it doesn't matter that the picture is the same on both.
In the mean time, here's my latest clue. To get X up of it's own accord, would I actually have to boot into single user mode? I have to admit that I'm not really clued up on exactly how X works. Espeically in DSL. Where the log-in is actually on the command line and doesn't seem to call X unless you're actually logged in. Sorry if I seem confused but what can I say. I'm confused. And that's on a good day.
Anyway, thanks very much once again folks. I'm most grateful for your thoughts and advice.
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