Tips

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Tips are relatively small articles that do not provide a complete walkthrough (as HOWTOs should).

[bewerken] Audio

• Adding tags to flac-files with grip
• Make sound work with ALSA and Quake3/Enemy-Territory - How to get the sound working with in Quake3 and Enemy-Territory with ALSA.
• Troubleshooting Gstreamer
• Check media files for errors

[bewerken] DVD

• DVD: Rip, Shrink, and Burn

[bewerken] Filesystems

• Fix NTFS Permissions - Fix permissions on NTFS formatted filesystems.
• Reiser4 Enabled LiveCD - Use Lxnay's Gentoo RR4 LiveCD.
• Script to Unmount Busy Devices - Manage unmounting of stubborn devices.
• Mounting iso images - How to mount iso files.
• TIP lowercase files and directories
• File starting with dash - How to manipulate files starting with a dash
• Auto Mounting Swap - Simple rc-script to detect and mount swap

[bewerken] Kernel

• Bootable Floppy with GRUB
• Discover usb devices from dev entries -- If you have /dev/sda, is it your camera or iPod?
• Kernel Configuration - Tips for manually configuring your kernel.
• Kernel Versions - How to retrieve current kernel versions on login.
• Reboot after panic - Reboot after a kernel panic.
• Kernel Autobuild - Script that automatically builds new kernel.
• Upgrading your kernel
• kexec - Loading a new kernel without rebooting

[bewerken] Network

• Gentoo for Dialup Users - How to maintain your Gentoo system over dialup or without a network connection.
• Networkless Maintenance
• TIP SSH Reverse Tunnel Reverse Tunnelling through firewalls/NAT in SSH
• TIP Dual-Homed Gentoo Server - How to configure Gentoo to use 2 or more internet connections with separate gateways.
• TIP Jumbo Frames - Adding support for Jumbo Frames (MTU > 1500)

[bewerken] Other

• Adapting conky for gentoo
• Ardour on OSX
• Backup using cron (simple)
• Common Links
• Configuration Files - Where they are and what they do.
• Converting from Debian to Gentoo - How system administration compares in Gentoo to Debian.
• Design your own Framebuffer Splash
• Emacs Packages - Emacs doesn't automatically load packages installed through Portage, here's how you enable it.
• TIP Encrypted GNUCash - How to secure your data in GnuCash (or any other program).
• Fix Thunderbird Component Problems - How to fix problems caused by missing components in Thunderbird 0.7.3.
• Getting the standard Firefox logo - How to get back that orange-blue look of Firefox
• Java Installation Help
• Keychain - How to use and setup the keychain program in portage.
• Nano Context Highlighting - Get Nano to do context highlighting.
• Rox-Filer - Video thumbnails
• Selectively View Config Files - Selectively view entries in config files.
• Toshiba Install Windows
• Firefox Settings - Some useful Firefox settings from about:config.
• Firefox Plugins - Plugins directory
• Gaim account state plugin - Useful tip to make installing this plugin less painful
• MythTV to DVD - Using nuvexport to create dvds of your favorite shows without commercials
• Simple snapshot style backup
• Bluetooth Proximity Monitor - Let your computer know when you're near!
• TIP Shutdown after emerge - How to shutdown computer automatically after emerge completes even if it is already running.
• openoffice dead keys - How to make openoffice recognize dead keys for accented letters, international keyboard.
• TIP HAL DVD and DVDR Links Make HAL create /media/dvd and /media/dvdr, instead of /media/cdrom and /media/cdrecorder
• Turn SSHD on from a php page - How to make php turn on sshd for you.
• Make KDE look more like XFCE - Simple KDE settings that make KDE look like popular fluxbox or XFCE.
• Make Vivid Color Background Images Easily - Using GIMP, make an excellent backdrop image for your desktop. Very easy to do and fun.
• Changing the default editor - change the default editor for gentoo
• Chainloading a bootable CD-ROM from GRUB - How to be able to boot a bootable CD-ROM even if your BIOS won't allow or is able to. Avoid messing with the BIOS setup and password protect the CD-ROM boot option.
• MEncoder Tips and Tricks
• Installing Gentoo using USB-CDROM - Using a USB-CDROM can be a hassle since it sometimes tends to timeout before root is mounted.
• TIP Imaging with yet another ghost installer - How to use YAGI

[bewerken] Portage

• BINHOST Variable - Download binary packages for portage
• Colorize Etc-Update & Dispatch-Conf Output - Visualize configuration file differences more easily.
• Control revdep-rebuild - Stop binary packages from showing up.
• Dispatch-conf - A better way to manage configuration files and an alternative to etc-update.
• Euse - Quickly set USE variables
• Exclusions for emerge sync - Exclude packages and entire categories from updating ebuilds during emerge sync
• Download Dependencies while compiling - Make good use of bandwidth and CPU, speeding up emerge.
• File is Corrupt or Incomplete - Solve file is corrupt or incomplete (digest does not match) errors.
• Find binary package duplicates - Find and delete unneeded binary package duplicates in /usr/portage/packages.
• Gentoolkit - A very helpful Gentoo utility.
• Ignoring updates - How to manually mask packages so emerge won't install/upgrade them.
• Installing Specific Packages - Install specific package versions.
• Installing Packages with Reiser4 - Solve problems emerging packages on a Reiser4 partitioned filesystem.
• Limit Bandwidth during emerge sync - make.conf option to limit bandwidth used by rsync.
• Masked Packages - How to handle masked packages found in Portage.
• Moving Portage - How to relocate the default portage directory on a live system.
• Niceness & Portage - Make Portage behave while multitasking.
• No More "sudo emerge" - Save yourself some keystrokes by setting up a Bash alias.
• Overlays - List of various sources to get more ebuilds.
• Portage & Bashrc - Use one of Portage's lesser known features.
• Portage & the "new use" Feature - Track changes to USE flag settings.
• Portage Progress - Install status of a currently emerging package.
• Portage Related Utilities - Useful utilities not found in Portage.
• Providing binary packages - How to provide compiled binary packages via the portage tree
• Specifying Only Needed Locales - Save 90% of the space occupied by locales on your system.
• Tab Completion - Learn about TAB completion.
• Cleanup Package files - Clean /etc/portage/package.use and package.keywords from unnecessary entries
• Upgrade Portage - Quick overview on how to upgrade portage
• Search Portage Tree Using Regular Expressions
• TIP Easy cleaning of /etc/portage/package.keywords

[bewerken] Portage Speed

• CCache - compile faster using a compiler cache
• Downloading distfiles on another machine - Download packages on a faster network
• Speed up portage with Psyco - Using psyco, a python extension, can speedup Portage by factor 2 to 10.
• Speedup Portage, Rather fast Compiles in RAM - Speedup compiling using tmpfs.
• Speedup Portage - Speedup package management by putting portage on its own partition.
• Speedup Searching in Portage - Greatly improve search speeds in Portage.
• Speed up portage with cdb - Make portage go faster with a database backend.

[bewerken] System

• ACPI basic configuration
• Adding many users to a group
• AMD64 - x86 distcc - Cross-compiling on AMD64 and x86 (32bit).
• Booting into single user mode
• Fixing Boot Errors
• CFLAGS matrix - People's experiences with some of the less tested CFLAGS.
• Change Capslock to Control -- some people like this better
• Clean Up Cruft - How to cleanup cruft on your system using Ed Catmur's cruft script.
• Faketoo - How to create a Gentoo install using a chroot jail.
• Fast Copy - How to copy files much faster as opposed to using the 'cp' command.
• Free up disk space in Gentoo
• GCC 4.0 Testing Tips - How to set up a system using GCC 4.0.
• Gentoo Init Scripts - Using Gentoo init scripts.
• Install programs without portage - Installing packages which are not in portage - the clean way.
• Link Root to Main User - Rid yourself of the need for root's separate home directory.
• Numlock - Toggle numlock on default.
• PIE - PIE executable is a conglomerate between a dynamically linked shared library and a classic "executable" having a main function.
• PortingTips
• Powerdown on "shutdown -h" - How to make your system power down when you issue the command 'shutdown -h'.
• Recommended Packages
• Run a Command on Boot - Automatically execute commands on startup.
• Using Loopback Device - How to utilize free space on your windows box.
• Setup FQDN - How to get rid of the annoying Welcome to yourbox.unknown_domain! message.
• Setting Default Browser - Setting the default browser.
• Simple Crontab - Visual structure of crontab.
• Speed Up Your Boot Time - Parallel execution of rc scripts.
• System logging with syslog-ng - Basic configuration.
• TinyGentoo
• Torsmo Tips - Tips using Torsmo.
• Turn off DEV managers
• Using Chroot
• Vary Configuration Files Based on Softlevel