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Shining Arcanine
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 Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:09 am Post subject: I finally did it! I migrated my desktop to Gentoo Linux. |
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I am right now typing on my desktop in Google Chromium running inside of KDE on a native 64-bit multilib Gentoo Linux installation. No more virtualizing Gentoo on Windows. Now I will be virtualizing Windows on Gentoo, which is only because I need some way to gain remote access to the HTPC Media Center system to which I banished Windows.
I must say that installing Gentoo Linux was really quick and easy for me. I guess that is to be expected after having used it on my laptop since January and playing with it in virtual machines since November. The only difficulty I encountered was something with System Live CD where builds within a chrooted environment failed because a path variable was strangely set.
One thing I noticed is that the system is much more responsive than either my virtual machines were or my laptop is and compilation times are at least 4 times faster than they were on my laptop. I cannot notice any lag at all in KDE.
For anyone who is curious, here is my to current do list for things I still need to do on my desktop:
- Get printers working
- Get scanner working
- Figure out how to use my Koadk Camera with my PC.
- Get sound working
- Tie up loose ends (e.g. install software that I will miss)
- Calibrate my monitor with argyllcms and my Sypder2.
Also, here are my system specifications for anyone who is curious:
- Core 2 Quad 9550
- 4GB of RAM
- Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card
- Intel X-25M
- Asus P5K Deluxe Motherboard[/
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:47 am Post subject: Re: I finally did it! I migrated my desktop to Gentoo Linux. |
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| Shining Arcanine wrote: | For anyone who is curious, here is my to current do list for things I still need to do on my desktop:
- Get printers working
- Get scanner working
- Figure out how to use my Koadk Camera with my PC.
- Get sound working
- Tie up loose ends (e.g. install software that I will miss)
- Calibrate my monitor with argyllcms and my Sypder2.
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Grats on getting Gentoo up on your desktop, it's a big step 
I don't know if you're fishing for advise on your todo-list but I'm going to offer a few pointers anyway
- For printing go with cups and follow the Printing Guide
- Scanner support involves Sane, I've never set this up myself so I can only point you towards Their site
- If the camera supports acting as an USB-drive, installing GwenView will give you an alternative to download images from it in the KDE hardware manager popup, otherwise I guess you should install digiKam
- Sound shouldn't be that hard, just compile the correct ALSA drivers in your kernel (or don't mind if you're using genkernel), install alsa-utils and unmute your soundcard
- I've got no clue what software you're missing
 But I bet you haven't installed yakuake. It's a quake-style terminal that drops down from the top of the screen when you press F12 - I couldn't live without it now that I'm used to it
- No idea what either agyllcms and Spyder2 is :p
Good luck!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:51 am Post subject: Re: I finally did it! I migrated my desktop to Gentoo Linux. |
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| Shining Arcanine wrote: |
[*]Figure out how to use my Koadk Camera with my PC.
[*]Get sound working
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these two should be well sorted within kernel alone. The former most likely USB_VIDEO_CLASS (assuming it's a webcam - it's that, and adding yourself to 'video' group I believe), the latter building ALSA and the drivers contained within as modules rather than built-ins, beyond that it should "just work"
no idea on the others. am drunk.
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I don't know about the specifics of the camera, but gphoto (or: Digikam for KDE) gets most of the MTP based cameras connected greatly. Unless its a mass storage device, then you can mount it just like a USB drive.
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| lxg wrote: | | I don't know about the specifics of the camera, but gphoto (or: Digikam for KDE) gets most of the MTP based cameras connected greatly. Unless its a mass storage device, then you can mount it just like a USB drive. |
all i've ever had to do was ensure USB_VIDEO_CLASS was built as module in the kernel, then add myself to video group and
bam, there we are, webcam! You are right though I think, if this is a regular camera and not a webcam, it will probably only function as mass storage device.
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Did you enable your sound driver with a module ordirectly inside your kernel ?
For you sound problem, can post double check that :
Unmute all channels, you can enable or disable a channel with the letter m
After, that, run this :
Now, check if you have sound.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: I finally did it! I migrated my desktop to Gentoo Linux. |
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| Raniz wrote: | | Shining Arcanine wrote: | For anyone who is curious, here is my to current do list for things I still need to do on my desktop:
- Get printers working
- Get scanner working
- Figure out how to use my Koadk Camera with my PC.
- Get sound working
- Tie up loose ends (e.g. install software that I will miss)
- Calibrate my monitor with argyllcms and my Sypder2.
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Grats on getting Gentoo up on your desktop, it's a big step
I don't know if you're fishing for advise on your todo-list but I'm going to offer a few pointers anyway
- For printing go with cups and follow the Printing Guide
- Scanner support involves Sane, I've never set this up myself so I can only point you towards Their site
- If the camera supports acting as an USB-drive, installing GwenView will give you an alternative to download images from it in the KDE hardware manager popup, otherwise I guess you should install digiKam
- Sound shouldn't be that hard, just compile the correct ALSA drivers in your kernel (or don't mind if you're using genkernel), install alsa-utils and unmute your soundcard
- I've got no clue what software you're missing But I bet you haven't installed yakuake. It's a quake-style terminal that drops down from the top of the screen when you press F12 - I couldn't live without it now that I'm used to it
- No idea what either agyllcms and Spyder2 is :p
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Although this thread was meant more as a testimonial, I kind of was fishing at the same time. Anyway, I have audio working now. My audio issues were compiled my kernel without ALSA Mixer support. I am really impressed with how far audio has come on Linux, especially with Creative's products which are known for having poorly written drivers.
I noticed an issue where none of my web browsers had plugins, even though I was sure that I had the right software installed, but I was able to fix that by adding the nsplugin USE flag and emerging nspluginwrapper.
I have printing working with my HP LaserJet 1018 and HP Photosmart C3180 printers. The "Stop Printer", "Reject Jobs" and "Set as Default" buttons in the HP Device Manager do not appear to work. HP's Device Manager also does not appear to detect my C3180 printer. Aside from those things, everything seems to work well.
I have DigiKam installed and configured. I need to play with it a bit to figure out how to do things like I used to do them in Kodak's Easyshare software.
I think that just leaves the scanner left, although that is a low priority for me, in particular because I use my C3180 as a photo printer and emergency copier rather than as a scanner.
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I thought you had always been using Gentoo properly 
Do you actually need Windows for anything?
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| Chopinzee wrote: | I thought you had always been using Gentoo properly
Do you actually need Windows for anything? |
I have been using Gentoo Linux on my laptop. My desktop was a Windows machine because of Windows Media Center. The only thing I need Windows to do is to act as a DVR and have the recordings be available from a hardware media center extender, which is a set-top-box-like device that in my case is an XBox 360. Because of that, I could not move to Gentoo Linux on my desktop until I had another system to which I could transplant Windows. The new system took a while to build because I kept receiving Dead on Arrival motherboards. :/ |
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