I’ve installed alfresco on Gentoo, used Gentoo HOWTO . Only major problem which I encountered was with not finding jdbc MySQL driver. I’ve tried to use script from the HowTo, but it wasn’t working.
My Solution was to rebuild jdbc driver ( the script broken it ) ( emerge -av jdbc-mysql ) and then I’ve done a simple find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar and linked the file inside tomcats lib ( ln -s `find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar` /usr/share/tomcat-6/lib/jdbc-mysql.jar )
geek, gentoo, website
I have just discovered a XRDP , which is a RDPv4 server for Linux/Unix.
I am well impressed! Especially that it saves your session between connections. Time to incorporate it into my systems.
geek, gentoo, hacking, idea, laptop, linux
After years of consideration I have acquired a Bluetooth HeadSet - finally something what doesn’t screen rob me.
Sound quality is decent! There is one but - outdoor, music source has to really close to your headset , there is shit loads of interferences out the in world. Indoors is perfect, I can roam around whole flat without loosing signal.
I have hooked it up to my E61 which does not do stereo and it shit ( good it’s my last month of a contract ) .
I have hooked it up to my Music Player the StormBlue A9+ which I had for a while and until yesterday I was disappointed with it - now I love it, it works with my headset perfectly.
I have also connected it to my computer at home and now I am about to connect it at home. It’s dirt easy - thanks to Audio Devices How To from BlueZ
btw headset is Motorola S9
e61, gadget, geek, gentoo, hacking, laptop, linux, music
I’ve installed Munin monitoring node on my newly rebuild server. I’ve managed to get almost everything monitored.
I had to hack bind9 plugin as original delivered name was not intended for Bind 9. I’ve downloaded bind.in and hacked it a little bit.
My bind.9 has support for IPv6 clients, views and actually works with my Gentoo installation of bind 9.
My named.conf has that logging options :
logging {
channel log_me {
syslog daemon;
severity debug;
};
category queries { log_me; };
};
geek, gentoo, hacking, ipv6, linux
When I was performing emerge -ud world recently on my vaptop, I have noticed that the new xorg server, which was to be installed has a new USE flag, the aiglx … quick ^C and edit on /etc/make.conf has switched that feature on.
After updating system, I’ve added compiz to my installed software collection, and started to read on how can I get my eye candy on the screen. Google for gentoo aiglx and you will get Howto which I have used to set everything up … there was one glitch which was preventing me from seeing anything except white colour and what is worst I couldn’t find any solution for that. This white colour, which appeared instead of my windows was simply due to 3D objects lacking textures.
Now when you have that kind of appearance on your desktop , look no further than MESA … quick emerge mesa fixes the issue. Enjoy this nice eye candy working … except that after that I have broken my cube configuration and it doesn’t switch my desktops … plane is a bit too plane and I will have to reset my cubes configuration, but how? . eh
gentoo, laptop, linux
Last time I wrote that there was a problem with my GLX support. It is past now. Looked in to xorg logs and I have found that it is trying to access /usr/lib/dri/atiogl_a_dri.so library and it failing. Quick look in to /usr/lib/dri showed me that yes, this files was missing. Files which were present : r200_dri.so r300_dri.so radeon_dri.so only. So a usual quick fix by symlinking missing filename to one of the present files … worked 
I have linked it to radeon_dri.so. Don’t know if it is from Ati Drivers but it works fast so I will not complain.
gentoo, linux
I have a huge back log with sharing info .
Enjoy some of the photos from Bowling night outing with On-line team at the end of August.
I will try to find time and will to put more on the web , but when it comes to photos, my F-Spot is broken ( due to some Sqlite, Mono missed love ), may take some time…
I have got my ati-drivers back working in my system ( gentoo ) but I was playing too much with GL libraries and GLX is still on Mesa 
, will need to look at that.The problem was discovered when I tried to play Flight Gear ( which was recently updated and I can see some air traffic now! ).
aircraft, gentoo, hacking, laptop, linux, mono, website
I have re-enabled dri in my X11 configuration. Scrolling through pages is smooth again! Great stuff! It was the most annoying thing for me. An now I can play Video with XVideo what saves a lot of CPU time.
gentoo, linux
I just do not like when perfectly working system is “upgraded” to not working. Today I have upgraded my X.org X11 to 7.1 and … my Fglrx drivers stopped working. Does not matter which version, it just does not work due to binary incompatibility between modules and X11. crap! I had to merge f86-video-ati which does not support any acceleration … and now my Firefox is bloody slow! when scrolling. Accutally , I would love to know why…
That situation makes me think about some Portage tweak. It has warned me that my ati-drivers are blocking xorg-server-1.1 ( or some other latest number) but this block has stopped whole upgrade for my world… what if it would just tell me that this and this will not be upgraded due to this block, and carry on with stuff which does not depend on blocked ebuilds. And when all new versions will reach portage it will upgrade remaining software.
Second tweak would be to rollback last X upgrades. Like in my situation I found my system malfunctioning after upgrade, and I would like to rollback to previous working perfectly ( OK, almost ) state. emerge –rollback ati-drivers-X.X.X and all software which is blocking because it is to new would be downgraded. Cool!
To be honest … it might be there, but no body told me about it( GWN? ) and forums are just too crowdy.
gentoo, hacking, linux, package management, rant
If your distributions does not allow your users to mount storage device ( i.e. usb memory ) and it appears that you are using Gnome 2.14 ( and maybe higher ) and you wish to actually allow your self this pleasure :
Under gentoo :
- your user should be in plugdev group.
- /media directory should exist.
- And after you have added your self, log out, and in again.
- Restart dbus!
The fourth step came to me after reading gnome-mount -vt output. It was around 30 minutes of googling, completely useless.
dbus, gentoo, hal, linux
