From slashdot comments: For example, where in the documentation does it mention starting /etc/init.d/famd at boot? (This will improve KDE's file monitoring responsiveness.) Does a user know to chmod his RTC? How to umask a vfat partition so that users can access it? How to setup multiple sound cards? How to set up your application sound server settings? How to enable the kernel laptop mode? How to setup power management runlevels? Which kernel modules need to be added to modules.autoload? How to make fonts appear cleanly and consistently?
starting /etc/init.d/famd at boot? (This will improve KDE's file monitoring responsiveness.) This is clearly stated in the ewarning when emerging fam. Also mentioned in the Gnome config guide. It should probably be in the KDE config guide as well. Does a user know to chmod his RTC? I couldn't find any documentation on this in the docs collection. I do know that some apps like mplayer will give you a warning about it if it is not chmod'ed. Also found threads on the forum about this. How to umask a vfat partition so that users can access it? Couldn't find anything specific about this in the docs collection. It is mentioned in the mount man page, covered by hundreds of forum threads and a very in-depth article at gentoo-wiki.com (I know, the wiki is not an official part of gentoo). How to setup multiple sound cards? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml How to set up your application sound server settings? For each individual sound producing application? The application documentation should provide this info (almost all sound apps in linux cover settings for ARTS, ESD, ALSA and OSS). The KDE and Gnome sound servers are well documented in those projects docs. Adding a short section on setting up dmix as the DEFAULT sound card to the ALSA guide might be nice though. How to enable the kernel laptop mode? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml How to setup power management runlevels? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml Which kernel modules need to be added to modules.autoload? packages that need this (like nvidia module) give an ewarning at compile time. Also mentioned in: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7#doc_chap5 How to make fonts appear cleanly and consistently? No specific guide exists in the docs collection. Several hundred threads exist in the forum and great articles can be found at gentoo-wiki.com
fam stuff: Assuming no major bugs crop up, gamin-0.1.7 will go stable on 19th november. At this time, app-admin/gamin will become a use.defaults provider of USE=fam app-admin/gamin will become the default provider of virtual/fam At the end of gnome install, it talks about activating famd at boot time. This should be removed as gamin will be the new default and doesn't need any daemon. Mentions of fam should also be removed from GNOME config guide at this point. This will take care of the first point.
Does a user know to chmod his RTC? We don't need to do this anymore, udev makes it readable by default. However rtc is fairly useless unless this command has been run previously: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq (and this needs to be run on every bootup) I can't see any particular document where this can fit in, so I'm going to suggest we add it to the ALSA guide (the most general multimedia guide we have)
Before we do that we need to talk about enabling rtc in the kernel config, which needs to be done in bug 94955 That bug will also take care of "Which kernel modules need to be added to modules.autoload?"
How to umask a vfat partition so that users can access it? will be taken care of in bug 111551 How to setup multiple sound cards? will be taken care of in bug 111552 How to set up your application sound server settings? I don't think we need to go into this one. dmix is now on by default and gnome and kde both use gstreamer which "just works" How to enable the kernel laptop mode? How to setup power management runlevels? Documented at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml
How to make fonts appear cleanly and consistently? will be taken care of in bug 111554
changing depends from 111554 to 108642.
From comment #3: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq Why not add some lines to /etc/sysctl.conf like: # Allow user to use rtc usefully #dev.rtc.max-user-freq = 1024 And then mention /etc/sysctl.conf in the gentoo handbook like it should be anyways.
Nobody (including myself) seems to have time or interest for these topics anymore, so closing this bug... :(
