[clue-tech] Christmas toys.

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

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From: "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us>

> My dad got a digital camera and an all in one printer.  And you know 
> whose job it is to make them work with Linux. ;-)  But I told him, 
> "that's what you do on Christmas day--put together all the toys you got."
>  
> The camera has a couple of modes.  I only fooled with the usb-storage 
> mode, and I don't have automounting set up so that's less than ideal.  I 
> either need to make it automount or use a different mode that gphoto 
> will find (more) automatically.  I tried renaming the device node with 
> udev rules but I can never remember how to walk the sysfs tree to find 
> the right values.  Maybe I wrote that down somewhere.

It probably won't require much to make it automount.  I think I have notes somewhere.

> So I hope you all had as much Linux fun as I did (and I got to do some 
> nice coding at work since there were no meetings).  But if you're stuck 
> on something I'll see you on the 24th.
> 

I'm busy building a new DIY Linux/LFS on my new laptop.  This is mostly 64-bit, but there is a 32-bit glibc for grub.  It's been a couple of years since I have done this, and I'm seeing changes here and there.  There is an /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory now to make it easier for packagers to update ld.so.conf.  And X.org can use dbus now to autodetect hardware, so in some cases, it might not be necessary to configure X.org.  

The modularity of X.org is good and bad.  Good because you can build what you want, bad because it takes more work.  I might sit down and write a set of build scripts that can be called from a master script and a config file.