If you have tried to update your system lately you might have come against this bug. When you try to “emerge –update world” you get a block all the time on a particular update of e2fsprogs.
Solving this block is easy, but took a lot of searching and then a test or two on a VirtualMachine (VirtualBox). The block occurs with the program of e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs. This is when trying to update to version 1.41.2.
Compiz-Fusion is a composite windows manager that aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness. The first Compiz
Now that we got the definition out of the way, in my previous post about installing compiz-fusion on Intel cards I sort of gave a tutorial on how to install it on a Gentoo system with Intel Cards. Not too long ago compiz-fusion project released a new version. Unfortunately through the normal portage tree this version is not available. If you install the layman overlays and obtain the “desktop-effects” overlay you can actually install version 0.7.6 which is a ways away from the 0.6.0 version available through standard portage.
Well I hit a little snag when I decided to boot two systems at one time so had to solve that problem.
Not really that hard, but here is the difference.
You need to bring up a tap interface for each of the systems and then you need to assign a bridge to the systems. This is not a big deal, and also lets you set up systems easily for bridging, but I need to look in to that more and do testing as I need it.
For now here is the way to fix it and the config file for /etc/conf.d/net
So why do I want to share out Samba Shares. This is for VirtualBox, to increase the speed of writing, and also to keep VirtualBox disks small as they can be a bit of a pain to compress.
So to start things off you need to make sure that Samba is on the system. If you have installed Samba before then that is great, if not then this is your chance to emerge it.
After Samba is emerged we need to modify the configuration file. By default there is no configuration file in /etc/samba but there is an example file that can be copied over. For me I copied the file over, but since it is huge I am only going to cut out the pertinent parts and explain them.
Ok.. first little stumble when trying out Virtual Box but it is not the fault of Sun/VirtualBox.
The virtual folder sharing works but is slow. The way to fix that is actually simple turn up network sharing on a regular virtual interface.
Here is a way to do that!
Read the rest…
If you try to install VmWare 6.0.4.93057 on Gentoo there are a few things you need to know.
1. VmWare 6.0.4.93057 is masked, to unmask it you need to add the files that it requests in to /etc/portage/package.keywords. The way I aways do it is by first running emerge vmware-workstation –pretend and see what the build wants to be masked and then add it to the file.
2. Your Kernel MUST have the following enabled:
CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS in the Kernel Hacking section.
This is because there are some symbols that 2.6.25 kernels have removed that VmWare needs.
3. You will need to modify the startup file “/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware” which is the default startup file for the system and include:
export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=no
as one of the top lines, this is a trial an error based on the GTK engine but if you are using and updating your system then you will have to use the same one as I have above. The other settings are “yes and force”.
4. For sound to work it is very simple. First make sure that you have media-libs/alsa-oss installed. If it is installed make sure that you have alsa running and added to the boot level.
To check if alsa is running do /etc/init.d/alsasound status. Look at this page here for further alsa documentations: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
Well Gnome has Network Manager and it might work for some people but it did not work for me with WPA and Passphrases. So I started looking around at some of the other network managers and the one that looked pretty good was wicd. The home page for it is here. Now the reasons why I liked it, it looks just like every other Network Manager. But when you really dive deep in to the web site you find out that it is totally customizable, and they have an IRC channel, which means that if I run in to some problems (and I did) I can maybe find some time when the developers hang out.
On my Laptop the Intel Card I have is the Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03). To get this card working with 3D was very simple following the Gentoo Intel How To.
Then just following the How to for the AIGLX you can get the AIGLX working, actually it takes very little work from the how to. You should be able to get it going pretty much by just auto generating the xorg.conf file.
Now getting compiz-fusion going is a bit different, as it required some researching and work. On top of going through the following How To.
Well Google decided that Google Browser Sync for Firefox is not something that they want to do and they closed the project.
You can see the announcement here.
They recommend that you go to the following projects:
After looking at all of them here is my opinion.
Of course you need to look at your needs and evaluate what is good for you.
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Well it might not be news for some of you, but for me it was. I used to use Kuroo a while ago so that I could easily browse through the portage tree and select the files I want to install or de-install.
Unfortunately as of 01/01/2008 the package is no longer maintained due to lack of time. What this means is that it will be slowly migrated out of the tree unless someone picks it up.
As of this point I am going to try porthole and see if it has similar functionality. Porthole can be found here (and of course in the gentoo portage tree)
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