I'm hoping you will be at the meeting on Wednesday. Please do bring it up. Unless there is another volunteer, I'm chairing it.
Regards, Phill. On 1 February 2012 00:16, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it's late where I am, but anyhow. I think it's a better idea to > split the FAQ into Beginner, Intermediate and Experienced then Guides and > Workarounds. > As I'm still working on getting a proper job and it not being a one-man > team I *would* like some help in determining the level of the FAQ's. > > This can be done by adding ##comments to the different entries. > > With metta, Chris > On Jan 31, 2012 10:38 PM, "Phill Whiteside" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Feel free to update the FAQ to use the .conf file! >> >> The other point raised is that of FAQ's for different expertise. I've >> given my views in a previous email, but things for run-level should really >> be in the intermediate / advanced section of tweaks to do with lubuntu :) >> >> Regards, >> >> Phill. >> >> On 31 January 2012 17:40, Bhaskar Kandiyal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Monday 30 January 2012 09:53 AM, ∅ wrote: >>> > >>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Disable_Bluetooth >>> > >>> > >>> suggests blacklisting to unload Bluetooth. An interesting thing I found >>> > is that if you then try to sudo modprobe bluetooth you get a >>> > notice letting you know that this blacklisting file will be >>> > deprecated in the future. >>> >>> That notice is for /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, the message states that >>> every file in this directory should be a .conf file, so we can safely >>> replace /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf >>> (both files exist as of now) to get the same results. I might make the >>> change to the FAQ. >>> >>> > Another possible way of doing this is by modifying the S-scripts in >>> > run levels 2-5. This can be easily done with the ncurses-based >>> > package sysv-rc-conf but can also be done (with a little more >>> > skill/knowledge) with update-rc.d. I guess you could also >>> > technically mess with the files themselves but that's a pain IMHO. >>> > >>> > To be sure they accomplished the same thing, I checked to see that >>> > lsmod | grep bluetooth and ps aux | grep bluetooth both produced >>> > results, which they did. Then I did the blacklisting and checked >>> > again. Neither produced results. Then I removed the blacklisting, >>> > made sure that we were back to the original behavior, and altered >>> > the S-scripts so that the Bluetooth daemon wasn't loaded. Again, I >>> > checked the results of the aforementioned commands and, again, >>> > nothing. >>> > >>> > Anyways, it sounds like it may make sense to replace this section >>> > with a section generally on unloading services, but use Bluetooth >>> > as an example. My question is what you guys thing about giving the >>> > average user the instruction to alter their run levels. This could >>> > mean totally messing up their system if they don't do it right. Of >>> > course, sysv-rc-conf is particularly easy, but still…I thought I'd >>> > ask before forging forward. >>> > >>> > wxl >>> > >>> >>> I don't think letting a user mess with the runlevels and their >>> services is a good idea :) >>> As you said, it can mess up the system, so we should take the easy way >>> out and tell the user the method that's less error prone or the one >>> that doesn't need advanced know-how. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bhaskar Kandiyal >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAk8oJ40ACgkQc3l9wn9I2OeyrACfW8UcLd4I4UJ5RYU9PB/1ujD3 >>> JKYAnjNzdk7jIKmW6ChpO9eVpb7WZ0Sq >>> =hOF1 >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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