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by DBordello
Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:10 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brain Droppings
Replies: 0
Views: 3353

Brain Droppings

I have been running gentoox on my xbox for several months. It works great, and I am thankful for everybody's efforts. Here are some random thoughts I have had. 1.) The xbox is WAY to slow to run updatedb and be used. Apon bootup with X minutes updatedb is triggered. I think that it should only run i...
by DBordello
Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:19 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: remove onscreen keyboard from loginscreen
Replies: 3
Views: 2920

Or you could just move it so that it isn't found by that if statement. That might make it so that it is NEVER launched (can't be found).

dan
by DBordello
Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:08 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: My Airtunes like setup.
Replies: 0
Views: 2560

My Airtunes like setup.

After seeing Apple's airtunes setup I wanted something like it. It is basically a wireless device that lets itunes play through it as if the sound card was connected to the computer. I put gentoox on my xbox. At startup I have esd (a sound server) start, associate with the digital output of the xbox...
by DBordello
Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:04 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Reboot from controller script
Replies: 4
Views: 4071

That shouldn't be too hard to do. When I get some time later today I'll get that put in.

-dan
by DBordello
Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:14 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Reboot from controller script
Replies: 4
Views: 4071

I thought the same thing as you at first. I have had it running for about 12 hours at it has used 0 cpu time. Xbox root # ps x |grep perl 1563 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/xpadreboot.pl Xbox root # uptime 21:13:30 up 14:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 My cpu is running mostly idle a...
by DBordello
Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:57 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Reboot from controller script
Replies: 4
Views: 4071

Reboot from controller script

Hello, My xbox does not have a keyboard or mouse hooked to it. So when ever I want to play games I need to ssh into it and reboot it. So, to alieviate this problem I wrote a simple script that reboots gentoox when i push L,R,Back,Start (look familiar?). My first thought was that the bios would catch...