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.
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.
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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Well there was a previous blog entry that I wrote on how to get Intel HDD sound working a few months ago, but there have been a number of advancements that made that article obsolete and I figured instead of editing the old one, I will just write a new one and then delete the other one.
To get everyone on the same page this is my sound card (lspci):
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Having decided to use Thunderbird as my E-mail program instead of others one thing became evident. If you are using Thunderbird then the add-ons or plug-ins are important because they help you do things the program alone does not. Here are the plug-ins that I like and why I use them.
These are not in any particular order:
I have been on a search for a good RSS reader for a little bit of time. You see I have been putting all my bookmarks in to The Brain, and this has been going pretty good. Unfortunately as I come across an RSS Feed that I want to keep notice off, I was a little bit stuck.
I have tried google Reader, and it is a good basic reader that lets you read the RSS Feeds from a number of places, but it is a bit limited, the place where it is limited is on my Microsoft Mobile phone as I want to read the news there. I might try other on-line RSS Feed places, but for now I tried to find something that I can take cross platform with me.
Well I have stumbled upon BlogBridge, while I do not know if it is a good permenant solution as I have just started using, at this point it fills the void for me. If it does not work out it has an OPML export so I can start using others.
Having switched to the new Ubuntu I find myself without a bookmark synchronizer. I used to use Google Sync (http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/) but since it no longer works with the 3.0 browser and I do not have time to wait. I am in search for a new browser plug-in for the sync of my bookmarks. Now I use The Brain for keeping and browsing of links but I also would like to keep it synchronized as well.
So what do I use? No Idea for now… but I am trying a few things for the first one I tried is Mozilla Weave (Available Here). The following things so far I have found wrong with it.
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