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I tried set up a fresh install of gentoo under virtual box. Everything went smoothly with exception of error after entering credentials on kde logging screen. [   533.067] (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. [   533.067] (EE) VBoxVideo(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. [   533.067] (II) VBoxVideo(0): visual configurations initialized [   533.068] (==) VBoxVideo(0): Backing store disabled [   [...]

This kind of message appeard on my maching after invoking glxinfo | grep -i direct Error was (at least I think so) caused by compiling nvidia-drivers against sources with slightly different version then running kernel (I forgot to update symlinc to kernel sources (eselect kernel)). The interesting part of it is that X sever started [...]

Peace of simple functionality I’ve been lacking for some time in dolphin was “send to ” option which would create an email with attached file(s) (many files). I have no idea why it does not exists “out of box” but there is quite simple way of adding this. This descriptions applies to KDE4. directory /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus contains [...]

Have you ever  added users to a group and  they do not have access to the rights of that group until they login again? Instead of telling them to log out and login again (sounds like MS solution?) they can type: newgrp name_of_a_group For more details read man newgrp Tags: flush, linux, login out, new [...]

New version of portage adds support for licence acceptance for specific packages. sun-jdk requires now acceptance of dlj licence (in /usr/portage/licenses) If you do not want to get into more details simply add ACCEPT_LICENSE=”dlj-1.1″ to your /etc/make.conf You can also set this to ACCEPT_LICENSE=”*” but you won’t receive and error during installation of  licensed software. [...]

(Soprano::PluginManager) found no soprano plugin at  “/usr/lib64/soprano/libsoprano_sesame2backend.so” Failed to create memory model First guessed solution works: emerge soprano -av

Proper firefox installation should create symlinks in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins directory. You should find there libflashplayer.so or valid symlink to libflashplayer.so 1. Make sure you have www-plugins/adobe-flash installed 2. cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so And that’s it.. in my case I didn’t even had to restart browser. One may ask why creating symlink to other symlink. This [...]

For me problem occured for the first time after kernel upgrade from 2.6.25-r7 to 2.6.29-r1 . During shutdown system hung with message: “Killing processes using ALSA” There is bug for this issue and patch (working for me) here that’s needs to by aplied to  /etc/init.d/alsasound   (wrong order during module unloading) I havn’t tested if [...]

Two weeks ago I decided to upgrade to kde 4.2. Everything went fine.. well almost… I managed to login to new kde once and later made some mess (btw. new kde looks very nice). I didn’t use any upgrade guide and for some reason I was unable to log in through KDM (but loging using [...]

Recently I tried to install amarok on a fresh system and after build i couldn’t find amarok executable file! >>> media-sound/amarok-1.4.10 merged. >>> Recording media-sound/amarok in “world” favorites file… After small sniffing I found in the middle of a build log following errors: checking for ruby… /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby: no such file to load — auto_gem [...]