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Hauppauge 850 950q USB2

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:38:57 -0500

Required:
dvb-v4l Tree - install manually - or from portage as noted below
Firmware located in /lib/firmware:

$ ls /lib//firmware/ | grep xc5000
d... [by skimpydog]



skimpydog-gentoo
Sat, 15 May 2010 19:27:36 -0500
Assuming you are using skimpydog-gentoo, or not but you are using gentoo, and you replace your NIC, or copy your existing OS to another computer, and you notice the NIC now has the name of "et... [by skimpydog]


BackUp and Restore - a few notes and tidbits
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:52:08 -0500
A lil note about rsync while specifying the desired port, working with locations - showing how to copy from one computer to another (and neither computer is the one you are directly accessing [a... [by skimpydog]


Mass Mailer
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:51:47 -0600
I cannot stress enough that if you use this script to make sure the script in in a secure area, with preferably limited access rights from the outside world! - This should be encrypted traffic, ... [by skimpydog]


Portage
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:51:10 -0600
So a lil bit about portage, ebuilds, and masking or masked packages.

The ebuild file is reference to the repo that the download will be obtained from. This also dictates what build of th... [by skimpydog]


Gentoo specific notes - some of this may also pertain to other variants
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:48:26 -0600
Controlling startup|on boot services:
Actual Directories:
/etc/runlevels/{default|boot|nonetwork|single}


rc-updat... [by skimpydog]


Kernel Building
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:41:01 -0600
So, if you are updating your kernel, and you would like to build with the same configuration that you currently have running; try something like the following example:

Copy the config... [by skimpydog]


xorg
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:08:57 -0600
Here's my current xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "X.Org Configured"
        Screen  0      ... [by skimpydog]


emerge
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:25:10 -0600
Need to re-emerge your drivers?

Here's a simple example with a lil upgrading of synaptics::

qlist -I -C x11-drivers


Finding the culprit(s)
Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:26:00 -0500
Here's another example:

Use "top" to see all of the processes - let's say we want to find out more about the process using the most amount of CPU usage:... [by skimpydog]