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Mantis drivers

This is from www.verbraak.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Mantis_driver but his site seems to be down a lot so I have mirrored it here because I am trying to get my 1034 card to work…

Useful info for Gentoo users

Gentoo Forums :: View topic – emerge -U world – How often I found this post in the Gentoo forums. Someone had it in their signature and is a useful hint on how you SHOULD use…

Cacti, SNMP and Gentoo

Here are the instructions I followed to get SNMP and Cacti working on Gentoo: emerge cacti cacti-cactidgroupadd cactiuseradd -g cacti -G cron cactiuser cd…

Gentoo nano and word wrap

Well I said in my initial Gentoo post that I would detail how to make Nano the text editor default to non-word wrap mode so you don’t have to specify the -w option everytime to…

Gentoo Use Flags for MythTV

Well after much mucking around I think I have finally got MythTV and Gentoo Linux working as required. I have had to install a fair bit of extra stuff to do the things I want but…

Gentoo MythTV and Dvico DVB

OMG what a world of hurt I have put myself in. I decided to upgrade my computer at home so I could play Battlefield 2 properly. So now I have a DFI Nforce 4 SLI motherboard with…

Installing Gentoo

Well I have decided to have a play with a Linux distribution. I chose Gentoo because of the flexibility and the fact that it has a good user support base. I have started using…