Tag Archives: Gentoo

Lots Of Upgrades!

After putting off upgrades on omicron for ages (I was busy), this week I finally found the time. So, I’m now running:

Apache 2.2.8
Tomcat 6.0.16
MySQL 5.0.54
Subversion 1.4.6

Woo yeah for them all running smoothly! I was especially happy that converting my Tomcat 5.5 configuration to 6.0 was easy.
As a bonus upgrade, I’ve switched the theme on my [...]

Apache 2.2 Upgrade on Gentoo

I found the time today to upgrade apache on my server to version 2.2. The upgrade appeared in ‘emerge -Dpu world’ a few weeks ago (IIRC), but I’d been putting off until I had the time to deal with it properly. Not much drama in the end, but I did have couple of issues. Here’s [...]

Laptop Beryl-ness

So, after being impressed by beryl on my desktop today I tried to get it running on my laptop. It’s a ThinkPad T42 with a Radeon Mobility 7000 graphics card. It seems that for this hardware AIGLX is best method. After a lot of messing about to get DRI working properly (never bothered with it [...]

Dual Screen Beyrl

Phi is now running Beyrl on TwinView at 2560×1024 Oh so very sweet!
I’m using the Beyrl packages from portage and the nVidia desktop effects method (no XGL or AIGLX). Got it running pretty easily following the guides on the wiki. I had to stop using Xinerama as Beryl doesn’t support it, but [...]