11th hour decision.

[hopp58902 Member]

Alright, I've stayed up pretty much all night, and the Live CD couldn't boot using our old scripts. The new kernel breaks them. However, those were the old and not-really-like scripts anyways BUT, X was autodetected and worked with those. The ones we DO like and that might work don't start X. I'm making a Live CD the "new" way right now. It'll be the same exact thing as the Preview was supposed to be, but X probably won't be autodetected and it'll drop into a shell. However, you can always run X -configure or other X things from inside there and manually start X.

With that being said, does anyone know of any working X detection scripts for Arch Linux?

[hopp58902 Member]

WE'LL DO IT LIVE: http://vyew.com/room#/desktop/54198499/ds-77075

If you're interested in how the building is doing, that's a live screencast of the devbox.

[hopp58902 Member]

Show's over.

[LTSmash]

Back in the days when I tried tomake a distro on my own, I used Larch scripts for creating the Live system (just as the FaunOS proyect does), and for X autodetection, I used a simple init script that was executed by having it default in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf ... if you want to, I could create some basic autodetection script, or yet better, some semi-automatic config tool... which would ask the user some info and then autoconf based on that, but for this we would need to have both nvidia and ati drivers...

[LTSmash]

Hmmm...

Found an old script for autoconf... needs some tweaking but will do. (and needs transalation to english, sorry its in spanish :p)

#!/bin/bash
#
#Script de Autoconfiguracion de X.org para Arch Linux
# LTSmash (c) 2008 - lord.ltsmash </at/> gmail </dot/> com
#Estas legalmente autorizado para distribuir este software y usarlo como quieras mientras que mantengas este mensaje de copyright

case $1 in
--help)
echo 'Este es un script de autoconfiguracion para Xorg creado para su uso con NWN-Live y otros sistemas Live-CD basados en Arch Linux, el cual esta hecho para ser ejecutado automaticamente y si no funciona como es debido tiene algunos sistemas fallback que deben ser activados por el usuario usando las opciones...'
echo 'Uso:'
echo 'mkxorgconf <parametro>'
echo
echo 'El script mkxorgconf solamente acepta un parametro a la vez'
echo 'Las opciones disponibles son -hwd (Esta opcion hace una configuracion sin ayuda del usuario) y -xconf (esta opcion ejecuta un programa el cual requiere conocimientos del hardware de la maquina y por lo tanto no es automatico).'
echo 'La opcion recomendada es -hwd'
exit 0;;
-hwd)
hwd -xa
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo 'Configuracion creada con exito, desea editarla (S/n)?:'
read input1
	case $input1 in
	S)
	echo 'Editando con nano...'
	nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
	echo 'Ahora ejecute "startx"'
	exit 0;;
	*)
	echo 'Finalizando, ahora ejecute "startx"'
	exit 0;;
	esac;;
-xconf)
xorgconfig
echo 'Desea editar manualmente su xorg.conf? (S/n)'
read input1
	case $input1 in
	S)
	echo 'Editando con nano...'
	nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
	echo 'Ahora ejecute "startx"'
	exit 0;;
	*)
	echo 'Finalizando, ahora ejecute "startx"'
	exit 0;;
	esac;;
*)
echo 'Opcion invalida, use el parametro --help para ayuda, abortando...'
exit 1;;
esac

#Metodo automatico (FaunOS)
Xorg -configure &> /dev/null
mv /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf &> /dev/null

[hopp58902 Member]

Hablo espa?ol un poco....tres a?os en escuela (yeah, I suck).

Hey, do you know how to generate an archlive.img as seen in the Archlinux official ISOs? That's what I need most right now.

[LTSmash]

mkbootcd?

http://projects.xennet.org/svnarch/mkbootcd/trunk/mkbootcd

What Arch is using right now are the Archboot images, and thos ecould be perfectly used as a base for what we want. or we could actually ask for help to the new Arch's release team :p

http://www.archlinux.org/news/430/

EDIT:

Hmm, nope. Well, there's larch, which I've been repeating, but we loose anything if I do it again:

http://larch.berlios.de/doc/index.html

These are some scripts to create a Live-CD system, based off Arch... and let me say: They work really nice.

[hopp58902 Member]

Larch doesn't boot 2.6.28 yet, and 2.6.29 is coming soon - it would be nice to have something we could update ourselves. I'm looking at manually making the initcpio.

[hopp58902 Member]

Having tried 3 different methods/scripts, I try a fourth. This is my last hope :p More soon.