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  • tech0x20 4:22 pm on December 29, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

    Log of setting up a “test” virtual server on apache2 under Linux. 

    Equipment HP Pavilion 6745C/700 MHz Celeron/256MB ram. I’m using gvim as an editor.

    Step 1, Add host to /etc/hosts:
    sudo gvim /etc/hosts
    Before the IPv6 section (if you have one), add:

    127.0.0.1 latte

    In this case “latte” is my virtual hostname.

    Step 2, Add a new configuration file for the virtual host:
    cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
    cp default latte.conf
    The naming of the configuration file is somewhat arbitrary, but I used {hostname description}.conf.

    Step 3, Edit the configuration file:
    sudo gvim latte.conf

    Change the following lines and save your configuration file:
    NameVirtualHost *

    DocumentRoot /var/www

    to the following:
    NameVirtualHost latte

    DocumentRoot /var/www/latte

    Your original “DocumentRoot” may be different, but the new value should be the root directory for website files.

    Step 4, Link to the configuration file in the “sites-enabled” directory:
    cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
    sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/latte.conf latte.conf

    or in Debian (and by derivation, Ubuntu):
    a2ensite latte.conf

    Step 5, Reload the apache configuration file:
    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

    Step 6, Browse to your virtual server to check your work:
    firefox http://latte

     

  • tech0x20 9:06 pm on December 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

    Manually adding a PCI display card. 

    Equipment/Software:

    • HP Pavilion 6745C

    • 256 MB ram

    • Kubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

    • eVGA (nVidia) GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI

    I’ve had persistent problems with the i810 on-board vga with virtually every install of Linux that I’ve tried with this PC (with the exception of damnsmalllinux). Between that and its poor performance, I added a MX 4000 to this PC. However, recent distributions have failed to even properly recognize the card at install/configuration time, so I had to take some indirect steps to add the device.

    Step 1:
    Install Kubuntu using i810. This required setting bios to use the “AGP” video card (in this case AGP=onboard video). I had the MX 4000 PCI card installed for this as well, but not hooked to a monitor.

    Step 2:
    Run “lspci” at a shell prompt. At the end of my listing was:

    01:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

    Step 3:
    At a shell prompt, run “sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf” (substitute your favorite editor for vim). I copied and pasted the following section:

    Section “Device”
    Identifier “Intel Corporation 82810 …”
    Driver “i810”
    BusID “PCI:0:1:0”
    EndSection

    I modified my new section to read:

    Section “Device”
    Identifier “NVidia”
    Driver “nv”
    BusID “PCI:1:13:0”
    EndSection

    The “Identifier” value must be copied in a later section, so the value doesn’t matter as much as the consistency of that value. The 1:13:0 is from the lspci output (01:0d.0, where 0d in hex = 13 in decimal). “nv” is the free nVidia compatible driver. I may later apply the proper nVidia driver (instructions in a previous post).

    Step 4:
    Still in xorg.conf, I modified the “Screen” section (Section “Screen”) by replacing “Intel Corporation 82810…” with “NVidia” on the Device line.

    Section “Screen”
    Identifier “Default Screen”
    Device “Nvidia”

    Step 5:
    Save xorg.conf and restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Bksp on an X screen). X will now start on the nVidia card.

    Step 6:
    Reboot, switch bios to use “PCI” as the primary display. Save BIOS.

    Step 7:
    Plug monitor into nVidia card, and boot with new BIOS settings.

    TODO:
    – Get both devices working on this PC as two separate displays.
    – Install “proper” nVidia drivers.

     

  • tech0x20 8:57 pm on December 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

    Discovered bluetooth keyboard and mouse was not working. 

    More fallout from upgrading to Edgy Eft, my bluetooth keyboard and mouse no longer worked. This post on ubuntu forums was the best consolidated set of instructions on how to configure bluetooth (which worked without configuration before upgrade, by the way).

    I ended using “/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart” instead of “/etc/init.d/bluez-utils restart”. However, I’ve only been able to restore the connection to my mouse, not my keyboard.

    HOWTO: Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse

     

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