Some questions b4 i try to compile my first custom kernel

Hi all, i'm tempted to try and configure my own custom kernel but i need to ask a few questions before i try...
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … ompilation
the first 5 instructions on this wiki were to do this:
# cd /usr/src
# mv linux-2.x.x linux-2.x.x.arch
# mv /lib/modules/linux-2.x.x /lib/modules/linux-2.x.x.arch
# mv /boot/vmlinuz2x vmlinuz-2.x.x.arch
# mv /boot/System.map2x System.map-2.x.x.arch
# mv /boot/kconfig2x /boot/kconfig-2.x.x.arch
if i just want to compile a new, seperate kernel from my current one, why would i need to do this? if i followed these 5 commands, i wont be able to boot up back into my old kernel unless i use a rescue disk to copy the files back into their original locations, not?
also, what other steps would i have to take to ensure that i dont accidentally overwrite my old kernel? Or other things i should look out for, for a first timer

[LONG POST]
There are two different kinds of people : those who prefer the /usr/src way, and those who use dibble's PKGBUILD.
To my opinion, someone who's never compiled a kernel should first try to do it the manual way. What is PKGBUILD for if you don't understand what's in ?
pacman -R kernel26
cd /usr/src
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.8.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf ./linux-2.6.11.8.tar.bz2
ln -s linux-2.6.11.8 linux
cd linux
make menuconfig # some tips below
make && make modules_install
# Don't do a make install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/linux
cp System.map /boot
cp .config /boot
nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst
# I assume your / is on /dev/hda2 and /boot is on the same partition
title Arch Linux [/boot/linux]
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/linux root=/dev/hda2 ro # lapic devfs=nomount
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,2) #Windows on /dev/hda3
makeactive
chainloader +1
If you use lilo :
nano -w /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=100 # =10 seconds
default=linux
image=/boot/linux
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
#append="some options like devfs=nomount or lapic"
other=/dev/hda3
label=windows
If you use lilo, DO NOT FORGET to run 'lilo' after editing /etc/lilo.conf.
Kernel Options
- Enabling an option generally does not hurt so if you are not sure, enable the option.
- Compile as modules only what you do not use, for removable devices, and things you would not like to be automatically loaded ( a NIC on a laptop for example)
- Try googling around to see what modules are needed for some of your exotic hardware if you have to.
- Know you hardware (run lspci,lsdev, use hwd)
To answer to what you said, a self-compiled kernel is not that much faster... However, it is surely not bloated anymore since it probes only for the hardware you actually have. Hotplug wont desperately try to load uncorrect modules for hours(and you wont have to blacklist them), and you have the options YOU chose, for example use udev as default.
Compiling the kernel also enables to patch it for example with reiser4 support(fastest fs on earth), -ck speed improvements, -nitro patch set.
I suggest you google around and see what patches are available, though I would not do that if you never compiled a kernel.
To patch :
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1 < /path/to/xxx-patch.bz2
Oh, I nearly forgot to say that if you compile the kernel yourself, binary modules provided by pacman do not work anymore. You will have to recompile them too(for example ipw2100, nvidia, etc). This is made easy with ABS.

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T61 Spare Battery: Uses ultrabay battery - I rarely use the DVDRW drive and leave the ultrabay battery in there while on the go. DVDRW drive stays in the bag until needed. I recommend you upgrade to the 9 cell battery with the advanced ultra bay battery, which will give u something like 9 to 12 hours of operating life. If you are not a fan of the battery pack sticking out like crazy, stick to the letter box format laptop (not widescreen), which will provide the minimum amount of battery pack stick-out with the 9 cell battery. The 6 cell will not stick out with the letterbox laptop but will stick out with the widescreen version.
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Pricing: Price was not really a concern for me. I purchased mine for the business look mainly, which Lenovo maintained well. I don't like the shiny/plastic/toy look of Dell and Apple computers these days. If anything, consider the premium an investment in the build quality of these machines (or a premium just for the good looks). I particularly like the roll cage as well as active protection system that stops the hard drive as soon as the system detects excessive motion.
Included Hardware Comparison:
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Middle mouse button: The three buttons in the middle are used for the trackpoint/joystick mouse controller. I think the middle button is configurable to do various things. I personally hate the joystick and can only use the touchpad. The lack of a touchpad was the only reason I did not stick to the smaller 12.1" X line of laptops, which was really more in tune with my size requirements (too used to using the L400 sized machine).
Recovery Partition: This is a cheap way for manufacturers to make it easy for people to recover their systems in case of crash - without the need for any documentation or disc media. However, it makes it hard for people like me who only use machines after a clean format and customized install of Windows. This partition is about 10GB and can be erased with special disk format or partition tools. Windows itself cannot read or delete this partition. With the minimum size of the hard drives available, this should not be an excessive space killer for most people. I personally need only 7GB total for OS and apps. The remaining data I work with is actually streamed from a 500GB gigabit NAS. I might switch to a 32GB solid state disk one of these days when their performance comes more in par or exceeds traditional drives.
Recovery CD: You can create your own from the recovery partition since Lenovo does not provide any.
4th USB: I only use 1 or 2 as well. 1 for an external micro mouse (I love my touchpad, but it's just hard to use with Photoshop or CAD apps) and a second for a USB memory key. My other devices i.e., scanner, external mouse, keyboard, are plugged in on my desktop through a USB hub that goes to a single port on my docking station. So yes, your docking station will probably remove the need for more than 2 ports. Although, I do find it odd there are only 3 ports... such an odd number.
Screen Size: I personally wish I could have gotten the X series of laptops but the 14.1 was the only other mobile solution. For the larger screen size, docking station to my 24" Dell 2405FP. The compact nature of the T series makes it pretty thin and compact though... it was not too much bigger than my L400 - at least, not uncomfortably bigger.
But yeah, I think if you make the switch, you'll be getting yourself a solid machine that will keep u going for years. The Latitude line of Dell's were really good, but overall, I feel that the nature of Dell's manufacturing process is making it too "cookie cutter" and reducing its overall quality level. Their earlier lines were awesome, like the D lines you mentioned. But unless you get the ATG line, you just won't get the same level of quality they used to offer (in addition, the ATG line is wickedly too expensive - I'd rather get a Durabook for military grade spec at a fraction of the price).
Anyway, have fun shopping! :-)
And moderators or employees of Lenovo, don't you guys get referral bonuses for giving your employee discount code to friends and family? *wink*
T61_Wide | Model No. 7662 - CTO
Core 2 Duo T7250 | 2GB OCZ DDR2-800
82566MM Gigabit | 4965AGN Centrino Pro

Some questions about TLF component

Hi,
I'm using the TLF component (v. 0.207.0) in a Mac OSX and I've encountered with some things that I can't resolve.
(First at all sorry about my english)
- I'm trying embed some fonts with the component (Univers LT 55 Roman and Univers LT 65 Bold, for example). When the file is published, Univers LT 65 is correctly embedded but Univers LT 55 is not, even bought in the same package family font. With other fonts I have the same problem. In Mac the default font is very similar (even antialiasing is not working, its readable) but in Windows it shows an Time News Roman or similar. Actually I'm using the Helvetica Neue, is very similar to the Univers 65 and dont have this problem. Is this a problem from the font name? from the opentype font? or the embedding thing or something?
- The font type it is showing in the stage is the default one? Can flash (or the component, I don't know) render the embedded font? I really would like see my paragraph real size.
- Now or in the future the component could link the containers and flow text in? (maybe can now and I dont now!)
- When write a looong text in the component panel and the component is placing in the stage and it is very long too, I can't do scroll the text in the panel. When the stage component is very short there not problem, selecting the text I can scroll down.
- Can I change the text layout component background color? If my text is white I can't see it.
- If I have a text in japanese can I embed only this characters? I can use a range with
[Embed(systemFont="--", fontName="--", mimeType="application/x-font", unicodeRange="U+0041-U+005A")]
or include in the unicodeRange every character. There are another way?
I really apreciate your effort building this library, until now Flash always was weak with the text thing, specially with languages as japanese.
I was in the speech who Nat McCully did about the TLF in F-site in Tokyo and I relly excited about the TLF.
From now I would like to try more the script than the component, maybe there some more questions coming...
Thanks in advance.

Try adding the images to the container dynamically
var img : Image = new Image();
img.load("{appURL}+{data.picname}")
img.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,imageLoaded);
private function imageLoaded(event:Event):void
var img : Image = event.currentTarget as Image;
// now add the img to the container
cheers
Varun Rathore
http://www.vrathore.blogspot.com

Some question on IDOC (Control Record/Data Record/Status Record)

Dear all,
I am new in this area, and would like to enquire some question on this topic.
When I view a IDOC via WE02, each of the IDOC record will consist of Control Record/Data Record/Status Record).
Questions:
I notice that the data records consists of many segment (i.e. E1EDK01, etc) which are use to store application data.
1 - My question is do I have to manually create all these segment and do a mapping to my application field one by one (i.e. that is when I want to create a brand new message type from scratch)?
2 - If question no. 1 is Yes, how to do it, what are the transaction code to create it? can you show me the step by step.
3 - I don't have to create the Control record and the status record for my new message type right ? because those field value will automatically pull out from partner profile and system status message, am I correct?
Thanks.
Tuff

Hi Tuff,
As everything in SAP, with IDOCs too there are
1) Standard IDOCs
2) Standard IDOCs(Extending - Enhancement to an IDOC, to accomodate for custom values)
3) Custom IDOCs
And every IDOC has,
Control record - EDIDC Structure - This mostly reflects the partner profile information, along with few more details which are used for IDOC extension, Sequencing etc
Data Records - EDID4 Structure - These records contain the actual business data of the document in concern. So for ORDERS05 it would contain order details, INVOIC02 - Invoice details so on...
Status Records - These records capture the status of an IDOC from the time it is received/sent from your system and a corresponding business document is created/changed. So this will have messages like "IDOC sent to the port OK" etc which are status from the communication layer(ALE) to application specific messages like "Sales Order XXX created" or "Invalid Material" etc.
You would have noticed something called as Process code in the partner profile, this is associated with a FM(or work flow task etc) which has the business logic coded in.
So in case of an Inbound IDOC, the sending system updates the IDOC - Control and Data records, and sends it to the receiving system. On the receiving system the IDOC's control record is validated against the partner profiles set, if an entry is found then using the process code it finds the associated FM which will decode the data from the IDOC data records as per the IDOC type and then use it to post data into SAP (VIA BDC, Batch Input, BAPI etc).
And all this while the Status records are being updated accordingly.
So with the above context will try to answer your questions,
1 - My question is do I have to manually create all these segment and do a mapping to my application field one by one (i.e. that is when I want to create a brand new message type from scratch)?
In case of a custom IDOC, yes you will have to.
In case of a standard IDOC, you wouldn't have you just have set up the necessary configuration (Partner Profile, Process code etc)
In case of a standard IDOC extended to accommodate for some custom values(for which there are no fields in standard IDOC - Let us say you have added some new fields on VA01) - In this case you can still use the standard Process code and Standard FM associated with it, SAP provides several Function exits in these FM's which you can leverage to add your custom logic.
2 - If question no. 1 is Yes, how to do it, what are the transaction code to create it? can you show me the step by step.
There are several documents available on the net and on SDN detailing step by step approach for all the above three cases,
just search for step by step guide for IDOCS - sap.
3 - I don't have to create the Control record and the status record for my new message type right ? because those field value will automatically pull out from partner profile and system status message, am I correct?
Again it depends, in case of using a standard IDOC you wouldn't have to. But in case you have some customizations/enhancements then you might have to.
For Ex: updating the control record accordingly for indicating that you have extended the standard IDOC. Or append custom messages to the status record as per the business logic.
Try out the examples you find on the net and post any specific questions you might have.
Regards,
Chen

Some questions on JFormattedTextField

I more or less manage to work with JFormattedTextField, but have not mastered this control fully. I hope that someone can help me with some questions I still have.
JFormattedTextField field = new JFormattedTextField(); // no-args constructor
double d = 1.23456; // primitive type will be autoboxed to Double
field.setValue(d); // AbstractFormatterFactory based on DoubleNow, when the field has the focus, a text value of +1.2+ is displayed. As soon as it looses focus, the text value is changed into +1.235+. I find that weird behaviour and would rather see it the other way around or see the same text in both situations. Can anybody explain me what's happening here? I do not observe this behavior when using one of the other constructors.
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Hi.
Try this:
DecimalFormatSymbols fs = new DecimalFormatSymbols();
    fs.setDecimalSeparator('.');
    fs.setGroupingSeparator(',');
DecimalFormat format = new DecimalFormat("##.#", fs);
AbstractFormatter formatter    = new NumberFormatter( format );
AbstractFormatterFactory ff = new DefaultFormatterFactory( formatter, formatter, formatter);
JFormattedTextField field = new JFormattedTextField();
field.setFormatterFactory(ff);

Some questions on Labview under KDE4 and GNOME

I have some questions regarding KDE4 an GNOME with Labview for Linux. I'm trying to help a colleague get somethings working with regards to these desktop environments.
1. KDE4: When I try to open a VI directly through Dolphin (the default file manager under KDE4)..and the file (lets say ABCD.VI) is located in say /home/user/Test VI/ABCD.vi. When I double click, Labview starts and says that "/home/user/Test" is not a valid VI and it just errors out and refuses to open. It refuses to honor any whitespaces under KDE4 is what I've noticed. I haven't noticed this under KDE3.
2. GNOME: There are no icons for .vi files after installation, even though the desktop support for GNOME is installed during the install process.
Would appreciate some help!

Hi Anshul,
What version of Mandriva do you see this in? We only official test for and support a couple distributions (SUSE is only supported up to 10.3): http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/35D2B5E483A001A18625716B005BE464?OpenDocument
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Jeremy_B
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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