November 2007 Archives

So, I finally dropped lighttpd/fcgi and switched back to Apache 2.2. Trac is running with mod_python now. I think I've tracked down the main cause of our load/memory issues - googlebot. It was indexing all 4000 some revisions of our svn repository via the trac browser... bad stuff, but it should be blocked from that by our robots.txt now.

Also, I've added WebDav for Subversion now. Paludis is at http://svn.pioto.org/paludis, and the same is true for most of the other repos I host as well. Now those who have evil company/school firewalls and proxies can get through.

So, been a while, but here's something I just threw together. It's still a little rough around the edges, but it seems to be more robust than tpb for my system, at least, and it doesn't require me to make /dev/nvram available.

It uses /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/actual_brightness (from the thinkpad_acpi module in the 2.6.22 kernel) to figure out the screen brightness, and /proc/acpi/ibm/volume to figure out the volume and mute states, also provided by the thinkpad_acpi module (I'll switch to using sysfs for this when it becomes available).

It also requires the ruby-xosd package, which you can get from my overlay: svn://svn.pioto.org/pioto-overlay

For lazy paludis users, just add this to /etc/paludis/repositories/pioto-overlay.conf:

format = ebuild
location = /var/paludis/repositories/pioto-overlay
sync = svn://svn.pioto.org/pioto-overlay
master_repository = gentoo
names_cache = /var/cache/paludis/names
write_cache = /var/cache/paludis/metadata

You can get the current version of this script from subversion at: http://svn.pioto.org/rbtpb/trunk/