If you’re looking for the “Enable VM86 support” option in the 2.6 kernel (in order to prepare the kernel for the ati-drivers) you can try to enable Options -> Show All Options in your xconfig.
Category: linux OS
permission problem during emerge fetch
If you experience permission errors during the download of portage packages (and you’re not paranoid) you can try disabling userfetch in your make.conf.
FEATURES="-userfetch"
In newer versions it is enabled by default.
(This feature drops root privileges during the download process. In my opinion it increases the security of your system but it won’t change your life 😉 )
gnome-volume-control cannot remember alsa-settings
Easy solution on gentoo:
rc-update add alsasound default
OR (on other distributions)
add alsactl restore to /etc/conf.d/local.start
echo “alsactl restore” >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
add alsactl store to /etc/conf.d/local.stop
echo “alsactl store” >> /etc/conf.d/local.stop
add local (if it isn’t already) to default startscripts
rc-update add local default
linux full read/write support
For all of you who don’t know it already: the ntfs-3g project has released full-r-w-support for ntfs (Win2k,WinXP,Win2003,WinVista). Good work guys !!
saa7134 lircd (lirc daemon)
After half a day spended not long ago I finally discovered that the FAQ on the v4l2-driver-site works fine.
howto gentoo teamspeak server 2 made easy
Emerge the server and start it. Get the initial passwords from the log-file and enter the webinterface with them…
emerge teamspeak2-server-bin /etc/init.d/teamspeak2-server start cat /var/log/teamspeak2-server/server.log | grep password
http://localhost:14534
kde-4.0 over portage
azureus checks again
If you’re not sure about the consistency of a file you downloaded with azureus and you already deleted it from the list you can open the torrent file again (with the same target-folder) and azureus will ask you wether it should check it again. This can be quite handy if you’ve overclocked a bit too much and unrar complains about failing CRC-Checks 😀
amarok & pidgin
it is possible to drag an mp3 of amarok and drop it on a pidgin-buddy…
linux r o c k s !
kde 4.0 but still no –sync
KDE 4.0 (“be free”) has been released. Only problem is… there is still no ebuild from the official portage-tree 🙁
for those who have the TIME/motivation