Re: Announce: brief HowTo in german

[Svetoslav S. <sv...@gm...>]

> On Sunday 15 August 2004 13:08, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > Moin,
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> 
> Moin,
> 
> thanks for your answer.

not a problem :-)

> > > http://hyaden.dyndns.org/HOWTO/lmu
> >
> > 3 notes at first look
> > (well one is not really related to the contents)
> >
> > 1.)
> > i think the part about the nvidia driver
> > is totally irrelevant, and maybe even a bit confusing
> > do you really need to add a script for recompiling it ?
> 
> The HowTo is very specific to that what we did until now. With other
> words: At 
> the moment it is not more than a 'what we did until now'. We will become
> more 
> generic later. I try test more graphic cards. I also try to give my debian
> pages to Andreas Schuldei as soon as the low latancy patch is tested.

ok, 
but may be still ....
using low latency is not (deeply) related/required by (b)ruby
you might look for ll hints/links at linux-sound ml

 
> > 2.)
> > i really think it's a lot better to use display manager
> > (gdm to be presize)
> > instead of adding additional users and using a
> > bash script to start all the Xservers for each user
> 
> That depend. I agree to you if the PC should be a normal desktop for
> several 
> users. But I want to use it at a conference like a kind of 'internet
> cafe'. 
> The conference participants want to read news and mails, so an 'autostart'
> X 
> is the best for them. Maybe we alter this to KDEs kiosk mode.
> Anyhow: in later versions of the howto several methods will be described.

guess who sugested the note about i-net cafe's and school pools
at bruby's page :-)

IIRC both gdm and kdm support autologin,
and IMHO it's a lot cleaner to use display manager
instead of shell script to bring up/restart X

 
> > 3.) (the not related question)
> >
> > why is no one giving me any feedback for the howto,
> > and starts it's own one, IMHO it's confusing to have
> > a lot of howto's on the same topic, with some small
> > differencies
> 
> Well, this is an important question. Your HowTo was very helpful to me!
> But 
> many people here don't speak english! They need a german text.
> Maybe we should translate your document!

good luck :-)
just kidding, but i don't have the time
and i as i'm not a native german speaker
it'll be pretty time consuming for me

i'll be really happy if someone translate it
in other languages thought


> > the one thing i know, is that my howto is simply huge
> > but i don't see how to make it smaller without
> > leaving some functionality
> 
> That's the point! But it is all-embracing, and therefore useful for
> everybody.
> 

yes, but also scary for newbies :(
i really don't know what to do about this

on a mandrake PC it's almost as easy as
install kernel and modified X using a package manager
adjust configuration 
- for a 2 user system this could be limited just to 
  editing gdm : add aditional X server
  and Xf86Config-4/xorg.conf (add two new layouts)
- for more users hotplug configuration is also needed 
  and it's getting more complicated
(for debian with Andreas packages, the same probably applies too)

best,

svetljo

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