X11 w/Scroll Mouse

I changed my xorg.conf file section for the mouse to:

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

It is now working fine. The forward and back buttons on it don't work, but that is a project for a later date.

X11 Problems

I recently restarted my computer, no remembering that I had previously edited the xorg.conf file, but I dont remember what I changed. X failed to start.

I re-ran xorgconfig. These are the options I chose for my hardware which is a Samsung SyncMaster 174V and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:

-Mouse: 1 Auto
-MouseEmulate3Button: No
-Mouse Device: /dev/mouse (I created a symlink from /dev/misc/psaux)

-Keyboard: 3 Generic 104-key PC
- 1 U.S. English
-Variant Name: just pressed enter
-XKB Options: No

-Hsync: 9 31.5 - 79.0; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 74 Hz
-Vsync: 2 50-90

-Video Card: 6 ** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon] -
-Video Memory: 10 131072K

It displayed:

"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" for 8-bit
"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" for 16-bit
"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" for 24-bit

I answered: 4 The modes are OK, continue.

Color Depth: 5 24 bits (16 million colors)

Unfortunately after doing so, my scoll mouse isn't working again. Gotta find the directions for it.

Updated will be posted soon...

On a Side Note (Contd.)

It worked. I just synced up the portage tree using:

emerge --sync

as described and it worked fine.

SSMTP

I found this page which discusses the setup of the config file which is why it wasn't working: ssmtp

SSMTP

For some reason I am having problems getting an SMTP server to work. I have tried both sendmail and ssmtp with no luck. I get getting the error:

ssmtp: Cannot open mail:25

when trying to send a message.

On a Side Note

Im installing Gentoo on my girlfriends computer. I was having problems when bootstraping. Nothing seemed to work, and it kept erroring saying it could not find a particular file.

I had restarted the computer so she could boot up in windows just to use it for now. Then I restarted it to work on it and give it a shot, a hopefully search for the particular error she was getting.

Before I started the bootstrap, I decided to:

emerge --sync

and I'm not sure what happened and it that fixed it or not, but it seems to be working fine now. I'll post an update later as to whether it worked or not.

Installing Oracle, PHP, and Apache on Linux

I am currently working on installing oscommerce on to my local web server. This way I can play around with it, and hopeful build a cool site. Unfortuantely PHP is not working out of the box.

It is currently installed, but I am trying right now to install the apache module for PHP using Portage. Well see how it goes. If it doesn't work, I'm going to try the directions as this site using the pre-installed version of PHP.:

Installing Oracle, PHP, and Apache on Linux

Waiting...

Well it seems I simply have to wait for the x11-drm drivers to become available for the 2.6 kernel. I havent been able to find anything else about it.

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Hardware 3D Acceleration Guide

If nothing else, this page should fix the problem: Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Hardware 3D Acceleration Guide

Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ

When I try to play quake I keept getting an error about the OpenGL subsystem. Figured I might find out the answer here. If not I am reinstalling the ati drivers

Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ

Pocket Digital Update

Somehow I got this to work too. It doesn't complain why I try to do it as my self instead of root anymore. I cant believe it. Absolutely everything is working. Where is norton ghost when you need it!?!?!

LinuxQuestions.org - iLo mp3 player - where Linux users come for help

Solved this problem.

LinuxQuestions.org - iLo mp3 player - where Linux users come for help: "OMG....one of my usb ports must be messed up or something. I plugged it into one of the ports in the back and now it works fine...i dunno, but atleast it works. Mounted the /dev/sdxx file and it works."

After New Kernel Install

On another note, after I installed the new kernel something with loading the sound drivers wouldn't let me login to gnome until I had emerged them again.

iLo mp3 player

Well, I set it up accordingly and still no go. Let the search being...again...

LinuxQuestions.org - iLo mp3 player

LinuxQuestions.org - iLo mp3 player - where Linux users come for help: "These should be the kernel options that should be set:
SCSI device support--->SCSI disk support
SCSI device support--->SCSI generic support
SCSI device support--->Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device (This must be set to use the external memory)

USB support--->*Your Host Controller*
USB support--->USB Mass Storage support
USB support--->*I have every thing in the mass storage device subsection enabled except verbose debug*

then make && make modules_install, copy your kernel, and then reboot.

The device should come up as /dev/sdx then just mount and copy and paste.

Oh and the lsusb output is:

code:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 066f:8275 SigmaTel, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000



Hope this helps."

This is what he gave me. Hope it works compiling the kernel....2.6.9-gentoo-r13. Fingers crossed.

Linuxquestions.org - iLo mp3 player

Posted a reply to my thread of LinuxQuestions.org asking the user who had it working many questions, mainly because he is using gentoo also and my dad is using Suse, it could be some sort of magik suse thing that is making it work. Fingers are crossed...

LinuxQuestions.org - Cannot mount usb storage under 2.6.9 - where Linux users come for help

LinuxQuestions.org - Cannot mount usb storage under 2.6.9 - where Linux users come for help: "You should be using udev with 2.6.X and it sounds like you don't have a proper rule for your drive. Check out this link http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html"

Found this page, gotta wait till tommorow to check it out, should be interesting...bed time...

ALSA

I had to login to failsafe terminal so I could install the alsa drivers, then I had to reboot. It kept freezing when I tried to login. I also removed vixie-cron from startup.

I2C

Gotta read up on I2C before setting up my Pinnacle TV Tuner card because the kernel says it requires it.

"Both I2C and SMBus are supported here. You will need this for hardware sensors support, and also for Video For Linux support."

Video for linux....thats for a later time and date. One task at a time.

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide: "Important: Whenever you (re)compile your kernel sources, chances are that the ALSA drivers will be deleted. It is therefore adviseable to rerun emerge alsa-driver every time you (re)compile your kernel. Note that this will compile the drivers for the kernel in /usr/src/linux, NOT the running kernel."

That pretty much explains it. Had to re-emerge the alsa drivers.

emerge alsa-driver