On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 10:21, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > I've been very happy with the documentation I've read so far on > > http://www.gentoo.org. However, I haven't successfully found answers to > > the following questions: > > 1. Gentoo does not use Sys V init... It looks like it uses some > > sort of dependency tree. Where can I learn more about this > > system? This is related to the wireless LAN questions, because > > I'd like to set up, say, privoxy to depend on eth0 or eth1. > > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml for the documentation on > that. From what I understand, it takes some dependency specifications > from inside the actual init.d/* scripts to determine what gets executed > when.
This is very helpful! The init system makes much more sense. > > 4. Emerge -- does unmerge remove the files from the system? I > > unmerged the e100 package (since I actually have an eepro100, > > which comes with the kernel), but it didn't remove the files > > from /lib/modules or the entry from the modules file. Is this > > because removing kernel modules can be a Bad Idea, or am I using > > the wrong features of Emerge? > > > I believe emerge unmerge does remove files from the system, but it does > so 'intelligently'. It looks at all the files being removed (directories > too) and compares the timestamps and contents to the files originally > installed with that package. If they're not the same, it leaves them > there. I'm not sure how this applies to kernel modules, but maybe that > helps a tad. That's what I was hoping to hear! > > 5. ACPI - I've never used ACPI before, but I went ahead and added > > "acpi" to the USE variable in my /etc/make.conf. The > > /usr/bin/acpi program works as advertised -- but my CPU runs at > > 100% whenever I boot without adding "acpi=false" to my kernel > > parameters. When I run "top", all of the usage shown as > > "system" -- except for the cpu-time used by the user processes > > that you'd normally expect to be running. I'm running the > > stock 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 kernel, and the toshiba_acpi module along > > with the smattering of other modules in the directory (ac, > > batter, button, fan, processor, thermal). Is there any way to > > use ACPI without having my CPU pegged all the time? > > Not sure. I use ACPI too, but I haven't had time to mess with it. A fellow (JPM) on another listserv suggested that I comment out an event-registration in: /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c The line is: acpi_os_derive_pci_id (node, region_obj->region.node, &pci_id); It seems to work without any side effects, but I haven't figured out why yet.... -Luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
