Tag Archives: gentoo

Upgrading to Xorg-X11 7.3 with ati-drivers 8.42.3 on Gentoo

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Dennis

I’m a sucker for bleeding edge technology. After posting before about upgrading to the 8.42.3 ati drivers, I realized I was using Xorg-X11 7.2, not 7.3, which is the latest. The latest 7.3 ebuild contains a block on the ati … Continue reading →

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AIGLX, Compiz-Fusion, Gentoo, and my ATI Radeon 9600 Card with 8.42.3

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Dennis

Update: As of the last couple days (11/18/07), an ebuild has been added to portage for these drivers. It’s no longer necessary to create your own. So the Long Anticipated ATI drivers that support AIGLX are released. I’ve been wishing … Continue reading →

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The perennially late Gentoo gnome-light ebuilds

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Dennis

If you run Gentoo Linux for your desktop, and you happen to favor the Gnome desktop environment, you may have noticed the incredible number of packages that need to be installed in order to install the gnome ebuild. The ability … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Init Scripts for Cherrypy

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Dennis

A few of the web applications I am hosting/developing are written with TurboGears which uses Cherrypy as its applications server. I have a couple things that need fixed for hosting CherryPy web applications on my Gentoo systems. First, there are … Continue reading →

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Upgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Dennis

I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply … Continue reading →

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One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Dennis

As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything: emerge -p <package_name> … Continue reading →

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