ETEC1302 Computing Systems

Snow day.

The week of March 2nd there will be a midterm exam over all of the assembly language materials. Once you begin you will have 3 hours to take the exam. The midterm will consist of about 30 questions. Most of the questions will be multiple choice, some will be short answer, and 3 of them will involve creating a short program.

Spring break.

This begins the "Installing Linux" part of the class. This material is significantly different than the 6502-based materials and you should find it to be somewhat easier to work through.

There is no new assignment this week in order to give everyone some extra time to finish the base installation of Gentoo linux. However, if you would like to start working on next week's assignment, the book for the assignment is at http://206.21.94.60.

X-Server (Xorg) installation instructions.


1) Edit your /etc/make.conf file so that it has the following information:

USE="-qt3 -qt4 -arts -kde X dbus gtk gnome hal cairo consolekit"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse virtualbox"
VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox"


2) Install the X Server using the following instructions:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml


Note:

use

cd /root
X -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro

instead of

X -config -retro /root/xorg.conf.new


3) If you already emerged the X Server using the ls2 book, edit your make.conf file and do the following:

emerge --deep --newuse world



4) Install the gnome desktop (gnome-light is recommended).

This week is devoted to finishing all past assignments. The areas:

1) The 6502 materials.
2) The linux materials..

The final exam will be similar in form to the midterm. It will contain a number of multiple choice questions and a few programming questions which will require short programs to be written.