Category: Linux

So I was trying to get udev working on my gentoo install this evening and it was giving me no end of trouble. First when I tried booting it complained that there was no console, you have to look quick to figure this out because the darn thing rebooted pretty quickly. A little digging found…

I certainly am glad that I added the notes previously about setting up linux on the laptop. The drive developed a couple bad blocks exactly where the /bin directory was stored which hosed the entire directory. The machine was not too happy abou that. I ended up reinstalling the entire system. I had save some…

I always thought that doing X11 tunnelling with ssh would be a hard thing to setup and understand but it turns out to be quite easy. First of all on the machine being connected to (remotehost) change the sshd_config file to include: X11Forwarding yes then kill -HUP the sshd client. Next when connecting from linux…

Setup toshiba 2414-s205 for use in linux