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RSS and Solaris Audio Control
27 October, 2005, 08:35 am
So the new site now has RSS, get your aggregators fired up!
Did you know about the Solaris Audio Control? I did not. The Gnome (Java Desktop System) audio control is severly lacking on Solaris. It contains just 3 faders which do not move independantly and only control master volume. The faders are also named oddly.
The CDE standard Solaris Audio Control will allow you to select the inputs, outputs, and volume in a normal fashion. It can be started like so:
fOrk $>/usr/dt/bin/sdtaudiocontrol
There are some utilities and an updated tool available here:
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-10694/utilities.html
That said, the site is all back to normal. (as normal as it gets) Needless to say I will be doing a FULL backup BEFORE any future upgrades! Thanks for reading! :)
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AAACK! What happened???
27 October, 2005, 08:31 am
Ok, the site looks different. Something happened last night, the faux pas that any web dweeb dreads. I over wrote the blog.data file while trying to upgrade the blog software and poof, lost all my old posts :(
Thanks to the magic of Google's caching, I was able to recover all but the stuff I had posted in the last few days. The posts are all dated goofy, so I added the original post dates to the oldest of them. This blog is just about 1 year old, the first post was made on October 29th, 2004. Anyhow, I've trimmed some of the fluff from the old posts and the blog is 2 pages smaller than it was, no worries!
What did I post in the last few days? Lets go over those again...
Something about starting CDE through VNC: Edit the $HOME/.vnc/xstartup file, it will look like this:
$defaultXStartup
= ("#!/bin/sh\n\n".
"[ -r \$HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb \$HOME/.Xresources\n".
"xsetroot -solid grey\n".
"xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title \"\$VNCDESKTOP Desktop\" &\n".
twm
Replace the twm (tiny window manager) with this line:
/usr/dt/bin/dtwm &\n
Save the file, and start up some VNC with CDE!!
What else? Oh yea the fact that I've changed root's shell to bash and why you may or may not want to do that, here:
http://www.roble.com/docs/sol_root_shell.html
Thats done with this command:
root@fOrk #>usermod -s /bin/bash root
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lame compiling error...
27 October, 2005, 08:22 am
Over the last week, I've re-built my SPARC computer from scratch with the latest (build 23) Solaris Express and the OpenSolaris BFU's. I ran in to some issues trying to compile Lame 3.9.6.1. I was getting an error like such:
Error: Illegal operands: There are only 32 single precision f registers
This was using the Solaris 10 Companion CD's version of GCC (3.4.2). So I tried installing the Blastwave GCC 3.4.4, again no such luck.
After much Googling and trying different things, it seems that Sun's default ld (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is not terribly compatible with GCC in its native format. I installed Blastwave's binutils (/opt/csw/bin) and linked them one by one in to (/usr/ccs/bin). YES I know I could have changed my pathing, but I didn't. All of the g utils are now in my /usr/ccs/bin and it compiled perfectly!
Unorthodox to be sure, but I'm more concerned about it working...as for why it worked on my old install, the pathing WAS correct for use from /opt/csw/bin, and I have since changed it on the new install.
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LAME and Darkice Packages
27 October, 2005, 08:22 am
Here's a couple new packages I've compiled. Lame 3.96.1 and Darkice 0.15.
http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/darkice-0.15-sol11-sun4u-local.gz
http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/lame-3.96.1-sol11-sun4u-local.gz
Both were compiled on an Ultra 30, OpenSolaris 5.11 build 18. Compiled with GCC 3.4.2, installs in /usr/local.
If anyone'd like my init script to launch shoutcast and darkice, leave a comment and I'll post it.
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