Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On 2007-03-27 01:21, Duncan Webb wrote: directfb don't need/want X running. IIRC in the wiki it suggests using ratpoison as window manager, this works well for a dedicated box as it is so light weight. Why use a window manager at all?

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-27 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Martes, 27 de Marzo de 2007 15:19, Jason Tackaberry escribió: directfb don't need/want X running. IIRC in the wiki it suggests using ratpoison as window manager, this works well for a dedicated box as it is so light weight.   Why use a window manager at all? You don't need it.

[Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I have freevo 1.6.3 running in a debian box. I'm quite happy with it, but I'm also a LFS user, so I want to switch to LFS to run freevo. Why? Well, LFS is less bloated and my feeling is that it runs faster. LFS users understand me... The point is that I have a spare partition in my freevo

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Alberto Hernando schreef: I know that there are some more LFS users here, so I wanted to ask if they have any useful tips for this. For example, any change in the bootscripts to get a faster boot, or anything else. If U use Hlfs make sure you build python stuff without stack smashing

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Sorry, forgot the script... -- Groetjes Japie #! /bin/bash --login source /etc/sysconfig/rc source $rc_functions case $1 in start) echo Starting Freevo system... su - freevo -c LC_ALL=nl_NL LANG=nl_NL

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Alberto Hernando wrote: I have freevo 1.6.3 running in a debian box. I have debian as well. Well, LFS is less bloated and my feeling is that it runs faster. LFS users understand me... Let me know how that turns out. I'm curious to know if there's a noticeable difference in cpu load

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Buckley Hopper
Buckley Hopper wrote: Alberto Hernando wrote: I'm using the ati drivers to get tv-out. I hope I can still use them. If not, perhaps I'll have to use vesa... That's interesting. I have an ati radeon 9700 pro in mine, and with the stock xorg drivers with debian etch, I couldn't get tv out

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 26 March 2007 15:31:44 Buckley Hopper escribió: That's interesting.  I have an ati radeon 9700 pro in mine, and with the stock xorg drivers with debian etch, I couldn't get tv out working (I believe support is not included yet). Oh, just realized you meant the ati proprietary

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Monday 26 March 2007 12:32:17 Jaap Struyk escribió: I created a dedicated user freevo in /srv/freevo with all of it's media inside there and use attached startup script. For fast boot only load what you need for freevo and then start freevo with the script, so

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Jaap Struyk wrote: Alberto Hernando schreef: I know that there are some more LFS users here, so I wanted to ask if they have any useful tips for this. For example, any change in the bootscripts to get a faster boot, or anything else. If U use Hlfs make sure you build python stuff

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Jaap Struyk
Alberto Hernando schreef: Yes, I was already thinking that starting X, freevo et al. as soon as possible should be done. But I don't know if I can just change the order of the boot scripts. I'll have to try. I want to touch as little things as possible, but I don't care doing what I need

Re: [Freevo-users] freevo LFS

2007-03-26 Thread Duncan Webb
Alberto Hernando schreef: Yes, I was already thinking that starting X, freevo et al. as soon as possible should be done. But I don't know if I can just change the order of the boot scripts. I'll have to try. I want to touch as little things as possible, but I don't care doing what I need