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Neil Bothwick writes: |
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too |
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> > small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on |
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> > LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink |
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> > that to somewhere else. |
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> You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me. |
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Right. |
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> > But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? |
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> Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m? |
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> % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) |
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> 9.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 |
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> Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config. |
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Well, I think I did that. I copied the kubuntu config, but went through most |
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options with menuconfig and deactivated a lot. I kept bluetooth, USB and |
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DVB stuff, and some more, though, because I do not know yet which devices |
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might be needed later. |
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So, the original kubuntu .config has even much more stuff in it. Squashfs |
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compression must be very good, or the whole CD would be filled with modules |
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only. |
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> % df -h / |
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> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/sda5 reiserfs 385M 189M 196M 50% / |
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> That includes /boot with two kernels. |
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Looks like what I had expected. |
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But that's okay, I created another, bigger root partition. I just think that |
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the documentation could mention this. "Remember, if you are going to get |
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your .config fram a CD like knoppix, your /lib directory will neeed at |
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about 500 M, so be sure aour root partition is big enough" or something |
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like that would have helped. |
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Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for others |
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this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine might be |
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workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use konqueror. |
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The video driver problem seems to be sort of solved. Looks like a permission |
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problem, the X user has direct rendering. I guess a Section "DRI" with |
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Mode 0666 will solve that. |
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Still, I wonder how to get a new xorg.conf. X -configure also fails on other |
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machines with a similar error. |
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Yet another probem we just saw is display of videos. Xine works fine, but |
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with mplayer or vlc it seems like the frames are not all in correct order, |
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the output skips back a little about once a second. |
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Wonko |
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