From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([66.92.170.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EZUQ0-0008OB-00 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:25:48 -0500 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA8EPpGw014665 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:25:51 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA8EPoHK014664 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:25:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:25:50 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20051108142550.GM4620@rednote.net> References: <003b01c5e01f$fd5c2690$6901a8c0@thinkpad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003b01c5e01f$fd5c2690$6901a8c0@thinkpad> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: fc4, configuring without firstboot? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:25:48 -0000 It's a script that you can read: /etc/rc.d/init.d/firstboot Or look at it's requires to get a list of the apps it runs and deduce what it does: rpm -q --requires firstboot This is open source, meaning there are no mysteries here. Al Puzzuoli writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm about to perform a fresh install of FC4, and would like to do all I can to avoid dealing with firstboot. > > To the best of my knowledge, Firstboot accomplishes the following tasks: > 1. creates a second non root user account. > 2. Verifies date and time settings. > 3. Detects the sound card and configures alsa. > 4. configures video settings for gnome. > have I missed any? > > > Dealing with 1 and 2 aren't going to be a problem, but what about 3 and 4? I know that there used to be a command line configuration utility for alsa called alsaconf, but that no longer seems to be the case. I've tried installing alsa-utils as well as doing several variations of yum searches but to no avail, so I'm beginning to believe that alsaconf is no longer available. > > I have no idea how I might go about configuring the video, although I'm not sure how much it really matters for the time being. I want to make use of Gnopernicus and Orca and if they'll both be happy with the default video settings, then I won't worry about changing them for now. > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > --Al > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org