I think it's easier to open one bug for all the things I'm missing on the new LiveCD: - Users want to start X. Give him instructions how to do that. - Instructions are missing completely. We need an offline-version of the handbook on CD. - Xeasyconf is deprecated. Use Xautoconfig. - wireless-tools are missing (iwconfig etc.) - How can the user set the XSession? I think it's fine to have gdm set in /etc/rc.conf and instruct the user to init-start xdm, so that the session could be chosen in a nice menu. That's all for the quick test. Maybe I'll add more later.
The usual applies: 'setup' calls whatever needed to set xsession, configure Xsession (using a simple dialog tool), ... For 2004, I'd like to change it to call Xautoconfig rather than Xeasyconf, I have requested an app-livecd category to be created which contains ebuilds which provide such services, for now the /sbin/setup application is manually copied into the live environment when it is created. I'll add gdm to the default runlevel, finding a generic configuration for it might be a bit of a problem. (think adb mouse?) Could you guide me through on how to setup an X session chooser, haven't succeeded in doing so on gentoo, thought there were some bugs? I'll add viewable version of the handbook to the cds. Will add wireless tools. Would you like an updated version asap, or should we schedule for 2004.0 official release?
Ah, setup is the missing command! This should be mentioned in the motd. I'll test setup later (when my iBook is free of compiling). Xautoconfig is maintained by trance. The current stable version is far behind the current existing version. trance should test it on several machines, if it works. For a Session-chooser you should change /etc/rc.conf that it reads DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" and XSESSION="kde-3.2" (I think, KDE is the most loved Session on the livecd). Then add xdm to the default runlevel, after X is configured by Xautoconfig; I'm not sure if that works. Probably `/etc/init.d/xdm start` could be called by the setup-script, that first calls Xautoconfig. gdm should be configured so, that it auto-logins to KDE after a minute. You can add to the host-string something like "user: root, password: none", so that the user can log in, when he chosed another session. You can configure this with `gdmconfig`. The wireless-tools are only necessary when you want to change the essid or the channel. In an open network wireless should work. So it's okay when you first add them to the 2004.0-LiveCD. I think, we can leave the current LiveCD as is (it's only a preview and special Fosdem-edition). When we tell the users that there are some issues, then everything should be fine.
2004.0 has wireless tools. Opened a big on Xautoconf being at least 7 releases old. Instructions are added. Offline version available. Current cds don't have X and I won't add it until the nvidia cards prevent /proc from mounting bug is solved. Releases are completely built automatically now. It is no longer recommanded (not even supported in the USE cases) to manually tweak the stuff. Please add ebuilds for everything you want changed on the ppc livecd as an ebuild in the portage livecd category.
