Gentoo is a Linux distribution designed to be automatically optimized and customized according to the user's need.
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Gentoo framebuffer dual monitors
I have Gentoo and great frame buffer with smaller fonts and great resolution, also I have two monitors.
On both monitors I have same frame buffer. Is it possible to have multiple different frame ...
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trouble with irssi and cifs
I'm having trouble getting irssi, the irc client, to write to a mounted cifs share. I have the uid, and gid set to my user as well as setting the permissions on the share to being very permissive. ...
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Experiencing problems with KDE after an upgrade
After an upgrade of KDE I am experiencing problems. A lot of problems.
"Konsole" doesn't starts at all! (I have to switch to a console with ctrl+alt+Fx login with username, export DISPLAY=:0 and ...
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How do I make the CLI run on dedicated graphics?
I just finished my Gentoo minimal install and the first thing I wonder is why I get no picture. I did have signal on the live CD, so that was pretty odd. I plugged the monitor into the Intel HD ...
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zsh wants to correct vim to .vim
I'm using zsh on Gentoo x64, and when I type sudo vim /path/to/file from my home folder, zsh asks:
zsh: correct 'vim' to '.vim' [nyae]?
I want to run vim not my .vim folder. How do I fix this?
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Present USE flags upon emerging a package in gentoo
I was wondering if there are any tools to present the compile time options/ flags of a package in Gentoo when emerging. I am referring to something like this
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Why is make unavailable on the default Gentoo liveCD?
Whilst attempting to install Gentoo on my desktop, I ran into some trouble getting my wireless card to work. This is the card I am using. The modules included with the Live CD didn't detect my card, ...
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“provide net” in gentoo init script doesn't work as I thought
I'm running into a strange (to me) problem.
I'm running a gentoo with two net interfaces: enp5s0 (wired interface) and wlan0 (wifi). When I try to run a program, for example openvpn, from its script ...
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is linux/compiler.h a userspace header?
VirtualBox is looking for this file in /usr/include but it's missing in gentoo linux-headers
Does someone know if that is userspace header and gentoo is missing it? Or if that is not it, then if ...
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Gentoo Linux problems with ethernet [closed]
I'm playing around with Linux for half an year now and I thought I'd be ready for Gentoo Linux. Oh man was I wrong... I'm struggling with it for a week now.
I followed this gentoo installation guide. ...
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Slow NFS, nfsstat -c: what is authrefrsh (aka newcreds?) field about in detail?
(net-fs/nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1, 2.6.38.5-zen+ Gentoo)
Googling this seems to be a complete dead end. man nfsstat says a whole lot of nothing about the subject. The closest I could get was finding out ...
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setxkbmap switches between 2 out of 3 layouts
Issuing that command:
setxkbmap -layout "us,ua,ru" -variant ",winkeys" -option "grp:shift_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll" -model pc105 -rules xorg
when hitting CAPS+SHIFT I'm switching between English ...
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How does Menumaker select categories?
I am using Gentoo with Openbox and would like to switch which categories the mmaker (Menumaker) program puts programs into for my menu. But I am unsure of how/where Menumaker pulls this data from, and ...
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RAID 1 in linux
I'd like to setup RAID 1 with two drives in linux. I don't have a hardware RAID controller and don't want to buy one, so what is the best software RAID option for linux?
Note: If it makes a ...
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Keyboard is not responsive on xorg-server-1.13.1
When I've upgraded to xorg-server-1.13.1 keyboard stopped functioning.
I then downgrade to xorg-server-1.12.4 and xorg-drivers-1.12 and it works now.
What's the problem?
UPDATE 1
My USE flags for ...
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gcc: fail sanity check error, I suppose due to cxx USE flag missed
Recently I've done emerege -e world and then found that gcc was compiled without cxx flag. Now I can't compile any C++ package due to
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
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Gentoo LiveCD from Hard Drive: No Mountable Filesystems on root after modules loaded
I am attempting to install Gentoo on my PowerPC Mac. I have reached the point where I can boot the LiveCD (I have no functional CD Drive, so it is from a spare Hard Drive), but after the kernel is ...
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No locate.db even after running updatedb
Any clue what's up with this?
djc@miles rebar $ sudo updatedb
djc@miles rebar $ locate .dialyzer_plt
locate: can not stat () `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory
djc@miles rebar $ ...
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How to build AVR cross-compler under Gentoo Linux?
I need to install AVR cross-compiler on my PC. Some time ago I have used crossdev -S avr to build one, but it doesn't work anymore. I get following:
Calculating dependencies * Missing digest for ...
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Grade book program that works on gentoo
I am looking for a program that I can use to keep track of and calculate my grade in all my classes without going threw and making a spreadsheet for each class.
any help would be awesome thanks.
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Ctrl + left/right arrow keys issue
After the last system update the ctrl + left/right arrow command on zsh terminal doesn't do anything. Also ctrl+ u has something wrong because usually that command erase from the cursor to the ...
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Gentoo Kernel failing to boot
My machine has two hard drives -- /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
The first has Ubuntu installed. On the second, sdb, I want to install Gentoo.
I did all the installation steps, chrooted and compiled the ...
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Where can you host a custom Linux Distribution?
I've recently been creating a custom Linux distribution based on Gentoo that includes a custom installer, artwork, development tools, and desktop environment.
I have an ISO image and a local mirror ...
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Wifi AP with ASUS USB-N10
I am trying to configure wifi AP with subj device. According documentation in web, it requires master mode hardware support and hostapd software.
It seems I have master mode:
# iwconfig
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How to find which package provides a file?
For example, I can't install package qcad because of error: "can't find qdict.h".
How can I find the package which provides the file qdict.h so I can install the package qcad?
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How to disable portage LICENSE checks
Whenever I install a package with an EULA, portage asks me to add it to package.license:
The following license changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.license" in the portage(5) man page for ...
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Once the system has been started, is there any advantage in using systemd?
I'm running Gentoo with the default SysV-style OpenRC init system. The boot time is short enough to not bother me. Is there any reason to try systemd?
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Gentoo: How to update from one portage only?
I have an overlay alone with the default portage. Basically, I want to emerge only the updates from the main portage when I run emerge world -unD, and emerge the extra packages from the overlay ...
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linux multiple internet connections load balancing with fail handling
I have two ISP connections and need automatic load balancing between them. I also need to handle failed connections (not use one that does not work).
First link is a PPTP connection (ppp0), second is ...
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How can I get full Unicode font coverage for Gentoo Linux?
I've installed over 159 new fonts, all that were possible in Gentoo mirror.
But even then, gnucharmap doesn't have:
Arabic mathematical alphabet symbols 01ee00 1eebb
Arabic Extended-A ࢠࣾ
Chakma
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Migrating from archlinux to gentoo
Is there an easy way to migrate from archlinux to gentoo? For example I get a list of manually installed packages in archlinux by pacman -Qeq, save it to file and edit (to delete all unneeded ...
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How to set a ldflag for a library in home folder
I followed the following manual http://photivo.org/photivo/download_and_setup/linux how to compile Photivo on Sabayon:
graphicsmagick 16 bit
wget -c ...
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package.use equivalent for VIDEO_CARDS, ABI_X86, etc
You can configure USE flags per package in /etc/portage/package.use. Is there an equivalent for similar flags like ABI_X86 or VIDEO_CARDS?
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How to transparently monitor SSH access/network traffic in Gentoo/general linux?
What's the most effective way to monitor SSH access in Gentoo Linux?
My Gentoo box is operating locally behind my broadband router. I have SSH port forwarding on the router and a DNS entry pointing ...
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Mount /etc from disc into squashfs
I've created a gentoo-live system which should be booted from a CF-card. The whole file-system is in a squashfs. I've created a custom initrd which first mounts the CF-card and from there the squashed ...
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Very slow response from localhost when pinging
Networking is working fine on my gentoo machine. One connection is made, everything works fine with normal speed. But it is slow to wake-up : starting up connection is taking time. Even pinging ...
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Encoding Problem: Qt Apps delete all non ASCII chars from files
Qt applications are deleting non-latin characters from ISO-8859 encoded files on my Gentoo system. Actually I'm trying to merge two German files with KDiff3 and P4Merge (making "Whlen" out of ...
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How to install Conary on stage3 Gentoo
I'm fed up with the outdatedness of the Foresight iso (can't install it on my system because of the kernel), and I want to start my own distro. I want to start from a Gentoo stage3, and install ...
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How to find in which overlay is desired package?
How do I identify which overlays (if any) contain a particular package/application?
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How to load a module in Gentoo?
I am using Gentoo, with kernel 2.6.30, and I tried to load a module with modprobe usbcore, but it fails with modprobe: module 'usbcore' not found.
However, I can find a directory with that name in ...
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glibc does not upgrade on Gentoo Linux because of old SSP __guard symbols
When I'm doing emerge -avuDN glibc always getting this:
>>> Emerging (1 of 28) sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r3
* glibc-2.15.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... ...
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AutoFS not working
I recently installed gentoo linux, and compiled kernel 3.6.11 (latest stable); my kernel includes autofsv4 (not as module)
I'm using GNOME 2.32
I emerged autofs, created /mnt folders, edited ...
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Which Gentoo profile?
I'm installing Gentoo as a guest on a VMware virtual machine on an iMac host. I'm asked to select a profile and the list has 22 options.
[1] default/linux/amd64/10.0
[2] ...
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USB3 Hard Drive Not Recognised by Linux
My external USB 3 hard drive is behaving very strangely:
If I plug it into a USB 2 port, it works fine
If I plug it into a USB 3 port, it doesn't work at all. It's not even mentioned in ...
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How to configure Linux to run benchmarks as stable as possible?
I have several long running benchmarks (SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks) to run on a Linux server.
The server is running Gentoo Linux with a Linux Kernel 3.6.11.
I saw some big differences between ...
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How to set secure permissions for multiple users and multiple websites?
On a Gentoo 3.2.12 server with apache2+php, there are several websites running:
/www
/website1
/website2
...etc
The apache user should have read-only access to all the websites. There ...
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Find out a package's configure/compile options in Gentoo
On a Gentoo Linux box which I'm not administering (and to which I don't have root access), how can I find out the options which were used to compile the package?
(Please note I've never worked with ...
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Install of Gentoo: Can't find root device (boot of LiveCD from HardDrive)
I am attempting to install Gentoo on my PowerPC Mac. I have reached the point where I can boot the LiveCD (I have no CD Drive, so it is from my Hard Drive), but after the kernel is loaded, I get a ...
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How can I get a package manager on a Samsung Chromebook?
I have enabled developer mode, and I can access the shell, but I don't have the emerge command, I remember reading that ChromeOS is built on Gentoo.
How can I get a package manager on ChromeOS?
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How can I query for obsolete/outdated installed packages (ebuilds) on Gentoo?
Installed packages sometimes become obsolete because the package got version bumped and the ebuild for the old version got dropped. Also it happens that packages are dropped completely from the tree ...
