After a lot of prep work, my blog is now on my new Gentoo server. I have certainly learned a lot from this experience, and have a lot more to learn! Everything works just fine with regard to the blog, but I am still having trouble getting my mail server set up with postfix, and …
Category: Technology
Jun 09 2010
Problems with xorg-server-1.8.1 and xf86-video-intel-2.11.0
For the past day or so, I have been working on a clean Gentoo installation on my Samsung NC10 netbook. Things were going along quite nicely with the rebuild using the testing (~arch) branch, including the initial installation of X. However, when I issued the lovely startx command, I was continuously getting: (EE) intel(0): No …
Feb 20 2010
Quick note to users installing ~arch KDE4
Hello all, As some of you may know, I prefer Openbox to the larger desktop environments. However, I went to install KDE4 today on someone else’s computer, and ran into a problem with circular dependencies involving CUPS, GTK+, poppler, and cmake. The simple solution to the problem is to: USE=”-cups” emerge -av kdebase-meta and then …
Thought for the Moment
