Archive for November, 2004

Listing Interrupts

Friday, November 26th, 2004

To list the Interrupts/IRQ:

# dmesg | grep ‘[iI][rR][qQ]‘

$ dmesg | grep ‘[Ii][Rr][Qq]‘

ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 12
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11

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genlop – parses portage logfiles for information

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Detailed features include:

  • Nice colorful output.
  • Full Portage merge and unmerge history.
  • Display date, time and build time of every merge.
  • Display total and average build time of selected package[s].
  • Estimate upgrade time.
  • Watching current merge progress.
  • Use alternate portage logfile(s).
  • Match package names using regular expressions.
  • Log corruption detection.

To get complete detail of merged packages:

$ genlop –list
Sun Jul 11 23:22:16 2004 –> dev-util/ccache-2.3
Sun Jul 11 23:22:41 2004 –> sys-apps/portage-2.0.50-r9
Sun Jul 11 23:22:48 2004 –> sys-devel/gnuconfig-20040214
Sun Jul 11 23:24:57 2004 –> sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1
Sun Jul 11 23:25:20 2004 –> sys-apps/sed-4.0.9
Sun Jul 11 23:26:51 2004 –> sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r1
Sun Jul 11 23:27:22 2004 –> sys-apps/texinfo-4.6
Sun Jul 11 23:29:47 2004 –> sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Sun Jul 11 23:30:04 2004 –> sys-devel/m4-1.4.1
Sun Jul 11 23:30:31 2004 –> sys-devel/bison-1.875
Sun Jul 11 23:30:40 2004 –> sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1-r2
Sun Jul 11 23:44:16 2004 –> sys-devel/gcc-3.3.3-r6
Mon Jul 12 00:05:58 2004 –> sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3.20040420
Mon Jul 12 00:07:20 2004 –> sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r3

To calculate merge time:

$genlop –time package_name

$genlop -t qt
* x11-libs/qt

Thu Oct 7 20:52:53 2004 –> x11-libs/qt-3.3.2
merge time: 25 seconds.

merged totally 1 ebuild in 25 seconds.

Search packages that match a regular expression:

genlop -s gen[lt]o

source: man genlop

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Gentoo 2004.3 announced

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

Gentoo Linux 2004.3 is now available!

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Changing the look of your Linux

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

To change your boot time grub background download a splash image and place it under /boot/grub and then edit grub.conf to add the following:

splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz


Note: (hd0,4) = /boot

To change gnome splash image get a splash image from GNOME-Look and place it under /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/ with the name gnome-splash.png.

To change gdm login manager get the gdm themes from GNOME-Look and use gdmsetup to install new login theme.

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Creating portage packages

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

In gentoo linux quickpkg can be utilized to quickly create a package (tbz2 format) for portage by utilizing the files already on your filesystem. This package then can be emerged on any system.

It comes with gentoolkit package.

emerge -pv gentoolkit
man quickpkg

You can do the same thing with ‘emerge’ command

emerge -B package_name

–buildpkgonly (-B) Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all build time dependencies must already be emerged on the system.

All generated packages will be stored in

${PKGDIR}/All
${PKGDIR}/

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