#linux #nvidia #sabayon

Sabayon – nvidia-drivers with old radeon

If You have an older nvidia graphics card you may run into problems trying to install/use Sabayon linux. For example : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) If you get an error during Sabayon live CD install, try to boot with nvidia kernel module disabled. Edit the kernel parameters at the boot menu, adding: modprobe.blacklist=nvidia xdriver=vesa The newest binary nvidia drivers may not support you card if it is to old. ...

#beshell #gentoo #sabayon

BeShell (Be::shell) on Gentoo / Sabayon

How to intall: Currently BeShell is not avalaible in portage. More info could be found here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426946 mkdir -p /usr/portage/beshell cd /usr/portage/beshell wget https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426946 -o beshell-9999.ebuild ebuild beshell-9999.ebuild manifest echo "=x11-wm/beshell-9999 **" /etc/portage/package.keywords/package.keywords # or if on Sabayon #echo "=x11-wm/beshell-9999 **" /etc/portage/package.keywords/00-sabayon.package.keywords emerge -av beshell

#gentoo #opera #sabayon

Opera 26 install on Gentoo/Sabayon

Download the .deb file from here: http://www.opera.com/download/get/?partner=www&opsys=Linux&product=Opera%20Developer&utm_medium=sm&utm_source=desktop_blog&utm_campaign=developer Copy it to .distfiles cp opera-developer_26.0.1632.0_amd64.deb /usr/portage/distfiles/opera-developer_26.0.1632.0_amd64.deb Create an ebuild in /usr/local/portage/www-client/opera-developer/opera-developer_26.0.1632.0.ebuild # Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ EAPI=5 CHROMIUM_LANGS="af ar az be bg bn ca cs da de el en_GB en_US es_LA es fi fr_CA fr fy gd hi hr hu id it ja kk ko lt lv me mk ms nb nl nn pa pl pt_BR pt_PT ro ru sk sr sv sw ta te th tl tr uk uz vi zh_CN zh_TW zu" ...

#gentoo #opera #sabayon

Install Opera 24/25 on Gentoo or Sabayon

A month ago Opera for Linux 24 was released. Unfortunately it was released only as a 64 bit deb package. Thats not a problem because an ebuild was already written (details: bug#514696). On Sabayon: Add PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/" to /etc/make.conf # make an ebuild mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/www-client/opera-developer cd /usr/local/portage/www-client/opera-developer wget -O opera-developer-24.0.1558.21.ebuild https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=381750 ebuild opera-developer-24.0.1558.21.ebuild manifest # install: emerge -av opera-developer # correct symbolic link to libudev rm /usr/lib64/opera-developer/lib/libudev.so.0 ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev. ...

#NetworkManager #sabayon

Sabayon and Gentoo – services won’t start without NetworkManager

On my Sabayon box I’ve run in to situation, when I couldn’t start services depending on net like apache2 or sshd. I don’t use NetworkManager to manage the network connection, but it is installed and running: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager status * status: inactive I couldn’t start services depending on net * WARNING: [service] is scheduled to start when NetworkManager has started I assume that NetworkManager is somehow a default net provider for OpenRC. ...