Gentoo Overlay Project

Primary purpose is for Second Life with the following added:

• Working streaming media on 64-bit systems.
• Working vivox on 64-bit builds.
• Spacenav 3D joystick support.
• Many build fixes, no more stupid gcc errors that prevent builds.
• Some pjira bugfix patches.
• Some pjira feature add patches.
• A few third party patches that are useful to the everyday user while not interfering with the existing User Interface. IE:One can not or turn off the feature within the client.

To use my overlay

As root:

layman -f -a Techwolf -o 'http://techwolf.github.io/overlays.xml'

Or if using paludis:

playman --layman-url http://techwolf.github.io/overlays.xml -a Techwolf

"emerge -av secondlife" for the main client
or
"emerge -av firestorm-hg" for the firestorm client

The secondlife package (that is no longer) provided by portage differs from this overlay:

• No voice support in the portage provided ebuild.
• No USE flags support for vivox, openal, webkit, gstreamer, fmod, or dbus in the portage provided ebuild.
• Joystick INTENDEDLY disabled in the portage provided ebuild. This includes all joysticks, including the spacenav 3D joystick.
• The ebuilds in this overlay provide full joystick support, voice support, USE flag support.

Optional USE flags

• openal: Enable the openal soft sound system, default on.
• vivox: Enable the voice support. This binary requires some 32-bit libs on 64-bit system. The 64-bit build of the Secondlife can use the 32-bit vivox binary. Default on.
• fmod: Enable the fmod sound support, default off.
• llwebkit: Enable the qt-webkit support. Disabling this may reduce some search functions within the Secondlife client. Default on.
• dbus: Enable or disable the dbus.

Other programs

There are other secondlife related programs in this overlay.

• Firestorm This is a homebrewn viewer which adds new functionality to the viewer with the intent of easing the users interaction with the environment. Popular with powerusers and l33t users.
http://www.firestormviewer.org/
"emerge -av firestorm-hg"
• Imprudence Metaverse (SL) viewer with an emphasis on usability and bold changes.
http://imprudenceviewer.org/

Non-3D GUI clients, for when you just need to chat and other things that don't need a full 3D GUI view.

• Radegast and Radegast-git Text only client.
http://radegastclient.org/wp/
• Slitechat A Lite IM/Chat Client for Second Life
http://slitechat.dooglio.net/

LL CMS Branches

There is several mercurial branches from Linden Labs and third party viewers. They are:

• secondlife-hg is a live hg pull from a viewer development or release canidate repro. This repro is being maintained by LL and the open source community.
• firestorm-hg is a live hg pull from the phoenix viewer project of Linden Labs viewer 2/3.x based code.
• All branches do a live pull from the hg repository, to update, just re-emerge them.
• All can be installed at the same time.
• To run the client, just use the menu or from the command line, secondlife or firestorm-hg for the client you wish to run.

3Dconnexion's SpaceNavigator

3Dconnexion's SpaceNavigator users may need to do the following:

1. Uninstall any 3Dconnexion company supplied linux drivers as they conflict with the one built into the kernel. The SpaceNavigator shows up as a HID device that Secondlife can use.
2. Create some udev rules if they are not supplied with the distro. Currently gentoo does not.

cat << EOF > /etc/udev/rules.d/91-spacenavigator.rules KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c603", SYMLINK+="input/spacemouse", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="664" KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c623", SYMLINK+="input/spacetraveler", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="664" KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c626", SYMLINK+="input/spacenavigator", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="664" EOF

3. Create some hal policy rules to prevent the SpaceNavigator from being used as a mouse with hotpluggin on x-org. Only needed if you find the joystick controlling the mouse.

cat << EOF > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/3Dconnexion_SpaceNavigator.fdi <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.product" contains="3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator"> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string"></merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> EOF

My ~/.alsoftrc, adjust for your system

[general] format=AL_FORMAT_51CHN16 [alsa] device=plug:dmixs51 # mmap=off

My ~/.asoundrc, adjust for your system

# allows mixing of more then one program at the same time, this config is for htomega Stricker 7.1 --Techwolf 09/20/2006 # mplayer -ao alsa:device=plug=dmixs51 # secondlife and other openal apps, add device=plug:dmixs51 to [alsa] section of .alsoftrc file # the 6 channel dmix plugin pcm.dmixs51 { type dmix ipc_key 1024 ipc_key_add_uid false # let multiple users share ipc_perm 0660 # IPC permissions (octal, default 0600) slave { pcm "hw:0,1" rate 48000 channels 6 period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_time 0 buffer_size 4096 } hint { show on description "dmix surround 5.1" } } # The "hw:0,1" in the dmixs51 slave section is because I have a C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6, that uses the second device for surround output. # above taken from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix # more info at http://alsa.opensrc.org/Cmipci pcm.dsnooped { type dsnoop ipc_key 2048 ipc_key_add_uid false ipc_perm 0660 slave { pcm "hw:0,1" channels 2 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 48000 periods 0 period_time 0 } } pcm.duplex { type asym playback.pcm "dmixs51" capture.pcm "hw:1,0" } # for aoss pcm.dsp "duplex" pcm.dsp0 "duplex" pcm.dsp1 "duplex" # redirect default alsa to dmix pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "duplex" }