Tag Archives: gentoo

No Icons on Cinnamon Desktop

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Ben

I’ve posted before about Linux Mint, as well as using Xfce.  While I hadn’t gotten Cinnamon working on the older machine, I did realize that there is in fact an ebuild for this on Gentoo.  I’ve been trying it on … Continue reading →

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XFCE/Nautilus Hybrid Desktop

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Ben

It’s been a while since posting here, but I haven’t forgotten about you .  I’ve still been mulling over (read: procrastinating) on some things, but a lot of that has been put on hold due to some positive developments in … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Network Interfaces Problem

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Ben

I recently had an issue on my Gentoo desktop which was sort of frustrating, but which I’ve since gotten past.  I turned my machine on one day, only to find the mouse and keyboard not responding once the login screen … Continue reading →

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Gentoo and Xorg Updates

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Ben

Just a reminder to myself and others…  On Gentoo, at least on amd64, when updating X you sometimes find that your mouse and keyboard don’t work.  The solution to this, it seems, is to just reemerge xf86-input-evdev and then restart … Continue reading →

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Rhythmbox on Gentoo

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Ben

Quick fix here.  I use Rhythmbox on my Gentoo machine, and like it a lot.  Recently, though, when updating to rhythmbox-0.13.3 on amd_64 the build would fail.  I noticed that the build would fail, with something like this: make[4]: Entering … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Not Detecting CD

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Ben

Alright, so in case I didn’t mention it before, I am running Gentoo again on my desktop.  Things are good, compiling is fun, etc.  However, every once in a while there is a little snag.  Just recently (yes, around 1:30 … Continue reading →

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Battery Life and Other Nonsense

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ben

As I mentioned before, I have switched my laptop to Gentoo again after getting a new battery for it.  When I first finished my Gentoo install there was this beautiful feeling of euphoria…  It was just a raw Linux system, … Continue reading →

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Back to Gentoo

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Ben

When I first started on Linux, my distribution was RedHat 8.0 on our old HP Vectra.  After installing it I found that I couldn’t get X to start, and so I had to navigate the system from the command line, … Continue reading →

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