Slackware 9.1 installation log（英文）

Hope this is helpful to some. To painful to type it out in Chinese. Sorry about that.

Will update from time to time.


2003-11-16

(Re)Installed Slackware 9.1
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Backed up /home selectively. Backed up /etc. Backup custom fonts.

Repartitioned harddisk and used hda5 (5GB) as my Slackware 9.1 root(/) filesystem. Used hda6 (255MB) as my swap partition. The rest is not partitioned as I think it is better to mount them in later when my existing file systems are low on space.

During installation need to enable hotplug subsystem during system startup, so that I can use my USB harddisk. Once it is enabled I only need to mount /dev/sdan to access it.

Only selectively installed software contained in disk 1. The whole installation takes about 1.3GB.

Next is to install LT Winmodem driver.

Install LT Winmodem driver
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Untar the source tarball to /usr/src. The installation is straight forward. Just follow the instructions. The only thing to note is if /dev/modem is already linked to a device file (which is the case for me), autoload will prompt you to remove that link first. After that rerun autoload, and it will create a device called /dev/ttyLT0, and link /dev/modem to that device file.

Configure ppp
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Using pppsetup. Used back saved settings in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/pppscript to specify the phone number to dial and the DNS server IP address of my service provider. As pppsetup only adds one DNS server IP address to /etc/resolv.conf, need to add any others you have manually into it later.

By default only root can use ppp-go. To allow normal users to use ppp-go, need to set appropriate permissions for /etc/ppp/options, and /etc/ppp/pppscript, and chmod u+s (setuid) /usr/sbin/pppd. Also created link in /usr/local/bin/ for ppp-go and ppp-off (in /usr/sbin/) so that they are in a normal user's search path.

This is not the best way to grant dial up access to users, because it opens the door for ANY user. Need to look into this later.

Enable APM (auto-power-off after running halt)
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As apm is included by default as a kernel module. Just edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment the line "/sbin/modprobe apm".

Install NVIDIA graphics card driver
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Driver version 1.0-4496. After installing the driver, edit XF86Config according to the driver's documentation. Straight-forward.
The following options are added.
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true" # Experimental
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
And, importantly, change HorizSync and VertRefresh to appropriate values that matches my monitor.
HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 50 - 160

Enable mouse wheel
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Edit XF86Config and add in the following options in Section InputDevice for my mouse.
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Adjust fstab
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Added or changed the following entries:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat auto,umask=000 1 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat auto,umask=000 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,user,codepage=936,iocharset=gb2312 1 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat noauto,user,codepage=936,iocharset=gb2312 1 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 vfat noauto,user,codepage=936,iocharset=gb2312 1 0
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user,codepage=936,iocharset=gb2312 0 0

Allow normal user to run /sbin/halt (and reboot)
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chmod u+s /sbin/halt

Allow normal user to use sound card
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chmod a+r /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

Enable Chinese display/Input
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Steps in Chinese.txt

Only rxvt launched within rxvt can call out scim bar. Cannot input Chinese in Mozilla. Need to find out why.

Once the locale is set to zh_CN.GBK, startx becomes extremely slow (1 minute plus and still counting). Change back locale to C and eveything is ok.

Tried to reinstall glibc-i18n, fluxbox, and xfree86, but in vain.

2003-11-17

Solving the slow startx under zh_CN.GBK problem
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Retried to run startx under LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GB2312, and it took only 6 - 7 seconds. I suspect it is because there is no font for GBK codeset (inspired by a document in LinuxSir.org that explains details of fonts.dir file). Looking at fonts.dir file and fonts.scale files under the directory where my simsun.ttc resides (/usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/local/) shows indeed there is no font defined for gbk. So duplicated the line:
simsun.ttc -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gb2312.1980-0
and changed it to:
simsun.ttc -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-gbk-0

Did the same thing for fonts.scale (guess it is necessary). Updated first line of both file to indicate the correct number of fonts listed below.

After that run startx again. Voila! After less than 10 seconds I am in fluxbox.

Installed scim 0.8.2 and scim-chinese 0.2.6 - converted from TurboLiux 8.0 rpm (see Chinese.txt). Working in mozilla (after setting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim)

Installed non-official packages:
gkrellm-2.1.21-i686-2.tgz
gqview-1.2.2-i486-1.tgz

Installed/Upgraded slack-current packages:
ccache-2.3-i486-1.tgz
distcc-2.11-i486-1.tgz
gimp-1.3.21-i486-1.tgz
hdparm-5.4-i486-1.tgz
perl-5.8.1-i486-1.tgz
pkgtools-9.1.1-i486-1.tgz

不错不错，不过有些英文不好的兄弟可能要头痛了。

做个修正，关于滚轮鼠标的设置不太完整。
还要增加
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Right. Corrected. Copied the wrong lines
很抱歉不能用中文。打中文慢。太懒了。
anyway, 上面很大部分都是从这个论坛上学来的

Chinese Display
===============
Obtain some Chinese font files and put them into some directory (such as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local). Chinese font files can be obtained from Windows, or search net (to search). After that, run mkfontscale (or ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale, not in Slackware 9.1) and then mkfontdir *inside* that directory.

Edit XF86Config to load modules "freetype" (and maybe "xtt", not necessary) in Section Modules (loaded by default in Slackware 9.1).

Edit /etc/fonts/local.conf, add in a <dir> element for the path containing your Chinese fonts. This is for applications using fontconfig (such as Mozilla). Also run fc-cache -vf at each start-up (slackware 9.1's man page does not explain the meaning of the parameters).

In XF86Config, add a FontPath in Section Files pointing to the directory containing Chinese fonts. This is for applications that do not use fontconfig.

Restart X for the changes in XF86Config to take effect.

Mozilla - Set its fonts for Simplified Chinese to some Chinese fonts, under Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts

Edit /etc/gtk/gtkrc.zh_CN -> XMMS (and other GTK1 based systems) - Need LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBxxx

Chinese Input
=============
Edit your shell profile to have the following settings are there.
unset LC_ALL
export LANG=POSIX
export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBK
export LC_NUMERIC=POSIX (or C, or en_US, etc)
export LC_TIME=POSIX
export LC_COLLATE=POSIX
export LC_MONETARY=POSIX
export LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
export LC_PAPER=POSIX
export LC_NAME=POSIX
export LC_ADDRESS=POSIX
export LC_TELEPHONE=POSIX
export LC_MEASUREMENT=POSIX
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=POSIX

Note: If you use LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GBK (and possibly other codeset, such as GB18030, I guess), make sure you have some entry that defines fonts for charset gbk in fonts.dir and fonts.scale in one of your X FontPath. In my case, if there is no single gbk codeset font defined, X will take LONG time to start up (In my case one minute plus and still going).

fcitx:
Add the following to xinitrc or shell profile.
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx

Add the following to xinitrc before starting WM.
fcitx &

Do if you encounter errors with fcitx: Set 字体区域设置 in profile file of fcitx matches LC_CTYPE you set.

scim:
Install scim (by converting rpm files to tgz files. Note dependency of scim.)
Add the following to xinitrc or shell profile.
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

Add the following to xinitrc before starting WM.
scim -d

For KDE, need to change the option xim to over the spot. There are four XIM input style: on the spot, over the spot, off the spot, root window, "on the spot" inputs at the current input spot of client software, "over the spot" shows an edit window above the current input spot. "off the spot" shows an edit window below the current input spot. "root window" shows an independent edit window of the input method engine.

For GTK based applications (such as Mozilla 1.4), do export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim. This instructs GTK to use XIM as its IME.

For GTK 2.0, edit /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules. Locate:
"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-xim.so"
"xim" "X Input Method" "gtk20" "/usr/share/locale" "ko:ja:zh"

Change "ko:ja:zh" to "ko:ja:zh:POSIX". (add more if you want, C, en, etc)
This allows GTK2.0 based applications use XIM by default when locale is C/POSIX.

Chinese Font Substitution in KDE & GNOME
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KDE: Run QtConfig, in Fonts, Font Substitution, Select or enter a family, select a font you want to substitute, and in Select Substitution family, choose a Chinese font. (TODO: Try out)
GNOME: Edit /etc/fonts/local.conf, substitute arphic to Chinese font family (TODO: find out details)

frenzy的英文好生了得，我得努力学习！

不好意思。我不是要炫耀。这个log是我自己要留的，所以用英文写。我现在写东西99%是英文的。。。

2003-11-19

Install mlterm
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Configuration parameters used:
./configure --enable-anti-alias --enable-utmp --enable-optimize-redrawing --with-scrollbars

Used checkInstall to install it.

Install stardict
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Version 2.4.1. Right after I have installed it I found 2.4.2 is out... What a luck!

Must follow what its INSTALL says:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man
or stardict will not recognize dictionaries installed.

Default configuration requires openssl package. It also requires a number of gnome packages (all are available in slackware 9.1 disc 2):
libgnomeui
libgnome
orbit2
libbonono
libbononoui
gconf
gnome-vfs
libgnomecanvas
libidl
scrollkeeper

感谢frenzy兄的杰作，加精支持！

Thanks ^O^

Most up-to-date versions here:

http://www.geocities.com/xenoantiser...cker_diary.txt
http://www.geocities.com/xenoantiserum/Chinese.txt

Some highlights:
stardict 2.4.1, 2.4.2 upgrade
fetchmail, procmail
Chinese rxvt
postfix installation/configure
upgrade to kernel 2.4.23/gcc3.3.2
grub
mplayer

上面的地址国内访问好像比较麻烦……

是吗？GeoCities被禁了吗？
移到这里了：
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~wangyaling/

多谢了，好文章，终于能看见了

Thank you!
罗嗦一下。由于是txt，在网络浏览器里显示不佳。Use your favorite text editor

Updated.
MPlayer subtitle Chinese display - command line & GUI

Allow normal user to use sound card
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chmod a+r /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

I think the best way is to add your accounts into sys account.

I suppose to use "gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
" instead for safer method. correct me if wrong.

You mean add my account to sys group? Will try that. Thanks.

Will try. Thanks.

Yes, sorry for misremembering. There is still a problem with my second normal user account, but I can use it after I add myself into sys group(take care of using dropline gnome's system tool: user and group, it's not safe), I am just figuring out why. Error is something like operation noe permitted on /dev/mixer, I can setup volume in the terminal by "alsamixer', so I have to find what is gnome-volume-control, or another thing cause the problem, tell me if you have an answer, thanks a lot.

you can compile rxvt 2.6.4 (old version) with gb support. then by default it will use chinese font without any problem. for rxvt 2.7.x, it has problems to display chinese. I am trying to figure out a solution as well.

so far don't have problem displaying Chinese with my rxvt 2.7.10...

I just solve my problem by adding read and write permission on /dev/mix* and /dev/dsp*(if you use PCM) for sys group. I know most of user don't care of using "chmod 666", but I don't want touch in depth on my system. I am thinking I did it in a right way.

Updated.

Highlights:
- Experience with kernel 2.6.0 (alsa and freetype problems)
- font-config
- My first system backup and restore (real emergency scenario) experience.