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#1 2005-07-27 13:18:57
- FUBAR
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Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
I'm currently painting the case of my Celeron 466 I'm intending to use as an MP3-player. I want to Arch (DUH! 
) on it and put 3 hard drives in it full of music. I'd like to control it (the audio part) with the multimedia keys on my SK-2500 keyboard.
I'm aware I can use those keys in X fairly easy with xev and Fluxbox. However, is it possible to use those keys without X? I've looked at lineakd but it has x-server as a dep. Since I won't actually hook a screen up to it, I don't really see the need for X running.
My second question is: I've got 3 discs and I'd like to use them as one big disks. I was thinking about using LVM for that. Unfortunately I'd need an initrd to be able to boot /. I could also use a linear RAID-array. What would be easier?
One of those 3 discs is already filled up with music and so far I've been mounting it read-only, which gives me the feeling it's less likely to fsck up my files. Can I create LVM-volumes with one or more discs mounted as read-only?
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#2 2005-07-27 13:36:59
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
~/.inputrc might be able to help you with the keyboard shortcuts.....
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#3 2005-07-27 14:01:27
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
buy an ipod.
i think you can even load linux on them... but make sure your audio tracks are not AAC's.
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#4 2005-07-27 14:33:10
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
iPods cost money. I already have the hardware.
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#5 2005-07-27 15:14:39
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
hehe.. I was just kidding with you.
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#6 2005-07-27 19:52:15
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl? … =47&tid=89
Do not know if that helps .....
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#7 2005-07-28 16:18:59
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
Ow man, tits! TITS!!! Looks just like what I needed! 
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#8 2005-07-28 23:38:59
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Re: Building an MP3 machine (LVM and special keys Q)
I've tried "showkey" and some of my multimediakeys do indeed show up as one keycode. I've got a bunch of keys that don't give me any keycode when I press them tho. How would the Windows keyboard driver know if I press them or not?
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