Hi,
so after installing PS2Linux the last week and setting up xwindows I am finnally trying to run some apps on my ps2. I installed gaim without gnome as a package, but no connection was established (network and inet work! tested ping www.google.com and apt-get worked fine) so I guessed it could be a problem cause I use gnome so changed to gaim-gnome but where the hell is the executable file?!? gaim-gnome did not find anything! With typing gaim in xwindow before I changed everything workd just fine?!? And as I am asking for gaim what do I have to do to set up firefox. Just download the package from playstation2-linux.com and decompress the file type in make install and afterwards firefox to start firefox?!? In the end all I want to do is surf the net and use icq/gaim.
CU!
I'll make a howto after the last 2 points are working! So please help me!
PS2Linux Firefox and Gaim/ICQ
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baggacfreak
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PS2Linux Firefox and Gaim/ICQ
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baggacfreak
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Just found out that there are precompiled packages on playstation2-linux.com so I guess everything will work after decompressing them.
Hopefully a how to is coming soon. It's a nightmare to search for all those tiny little hints!
Hopefully a how to is coming soon. It's a nightmare to search for all those tiny little hints!
Memor32 Boot Elf from MCC with Mod Chip no soldering! http://memorgs.gulli.to/
Firefox works thanks to ppietro but is a memory hog. I'm hopeful that Firefox 3 will be less memory intensive, but am not holding my breath. I mostly use and recommend Dillo and have compiled dillo-0.8.6-i18n-misc-20070916, but the precompiled version on the playstation2-linux.com site is fine for starters. If you insist on using Firefox (and I admittedly do when Dillo doesn't work with a site), here's a good setup:
1) If you don't run as root (I run as regular user mostly), "visudo" as root and add the following line replacing "username" with your username.
username ALL=/bin/mount, /usr/X11R6/bin/X
You can have more like umount, and other programs but these are fine for now.
2) Create a batch file called "ff" in /usr/local/bin with:
sudo mount
export DISPLAY=:0
mcookie=$(mcookie)
xauth add :0 . $mcookie
sudo X :0 -screen 0 NTSC,inter -auth ~/.Xauthority -nolisten tcp &
~/firefox/firefox
xauth remove :0
I use the "sudo mount" to get the root password prompt before running X in the background. After exiting Firefox you will get to the gray screen with the X, this is X-Windows. Press Control-Alt-Backspace to exit to prompt.
3) When the system boots up, make sure you are booting without starting X-Windows or a window manager, because the above runs Firefox without a window manager for performance reasons and starts X in a certain way (change NTSC to PAL or other as needed). You should also go into /etc/init.d and rename any daemons which are started that you don't want to start. Other than the kernel-related procs, when I run "top" I only have the following running at startup: sshd, top (of course when I'm running top only), syslogd, ksh, klogd, and init. I usually kill sshd before running Firefox just to maximize memory. With sshd running "ps -ef | wc -l" shows 20 processes (most are kernel mandatory). Hopefully this performance tweaking will make your Firefox experience on the PS2 almost useable.
1) If you don't run as root (I run as regular user mostly), "visudo" as root and add the following line replacing "username" with your username.
username ALL=/bin/mount, /usr/X11R6/bin/X
You can have more like umount, and other programs but these are fine for now.
2) Create a batch file called "ff" in /usr/local/bin with:
sudo mount
export DISPLAY=:0
mcookie=$(mcookie)
xauth add :0 . $mcookie
sudo X :0 -screen 0 NTSC,inter -auth ~/.Xauthority -nolisten tcp &
~/firefox/firefox
xauth remove :0
I use the "sudo mount" to get the root password prompt before running X in the background. After exiting Firefox you will get to the gray screen with the X, this is X-Windows. Press Control-Alt-Backspace to exit to prompt.
3) When the system boots up, make sure you are booting without starting X-Windows or a window manager, because the above runs Firefox without a window manager for performance reasons and starts X in a certain way (change NTSC to PAL or other as needed). You should also go into /etc/init.d and rename any daemons which are started that you don't want to start. Other than the kernel-related procs, when I run "top" I only have the following running at startup: sshd, top (of course when I'm running top only), syslogd, ksh, klogd, and init. I usually kill sshd before running Firefox just to maximize memory. With sshd running "ps -ef | wc -l" shows 20 processes (most are kernel mandatory). Hopefully this performance tweaking will make your Firefox experience on the PS2 almost useable.