A quick note to remind myself how to get NVME recognized on Dell XPS 15 9570 on Gentoo. Make sure to add the kernel BLK_DEV_NVME options. NVM Express block device (BLK_DEV_NVME) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME: The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you don't have one of these, it is safe to answer N. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nvme....
Today I need to setup a wifi connection on a laptop to my home network with hidden SSID. Like so many things that I only have to do it once in a while, I couldn’t remember how to do it. So this blog post is something to remind me in the future should I need to do it agian. Here is one way to do it, thanks to this Stack Overflow question....
When I tried to run notify-send on my laptop running Gentoo, it didn’t work and was given the following message: $ notify-send 'hello' Connecting to D-Bus failed: Using X11 for dbus-daemons autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead How do one set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? Accoridng to this, it can be done by running: $ export $(dbus-launch) However, I want to also have D-Bus compiled with X11 support. First let’s verify if D-Bus service is running:...
Today I’m going to document how I built and installed kernel 4.20.1 a Gentoo laptop, Dell XPS 15 9570. This blog post is not intended to be a tutorial or even a guide. I’m very new to Gentoo, and have been spoiled by Ubuntu and Fedora for not needing to compile my own kernel. :) Anyhow, it’s very likely that I’ll need to compile the kernel again on Gentoo, and therefore I think having some sorts of documents is better than nothing at all....
A utility that I use quite a lot on a Gentoo system is called eix. This tool allows me to search for packages by name and list all available flags. The document on the Gentoo Wiki is great and has detailed explanation about it. In this blog post, I’m just going to write down what I did to get it installed. I want to set its flag to use qlite....