It's been a while since my last post on this blog due to an overloaded working schedule. However, now I found a good reason to write a new one and to share my experience with the world. Recently I've built…
Gentoo AMD Ryzen stabilizator
System recovering after accidentally removing sysvinit
In Unix-based computer operating systems, init (i.e. initialization) is the first process started during booting of the computer system. It is just a daemon that is starting just after the kernel and which reads the /etc/inittab file in order to…
Finding which Linux module is needed for your hardware
Your Linux distro or even the stock Linux kernel comes with all thinkable drivers for all those hardware that they supported. Most of them are preselected by default (base on hardware architecture) to cover a wide palette of hardware. However,…
Boost Linux kernel compilation for Raspberry Pi
I do a lot of experiments with my new RPi nowadays. It's like in the old days, in the early of '90s, when I've got my HC-91, the Romanian ZX-Spectrum clone. There is one small difference, though: the HC-91 has…
Gentoo on Raspberry Pi
Few weeks ago I received my long awaited Raspberry Pi board. For those that (yet) don't know what a Raspberry-Pi is, "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable…
iptables with syslog-ng on Gentoo
If you use syslog-ng protocol to log your Linux kernel's messages into a /var/log/messages file and if you want to log some messages (filtered by some criteria) into a separate log file (eg. your firewall log entries), then here is…
Linux ATI radeon KMS
These days I had to install a Gentoo on a Compaq 6820s laptop that comes with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 (chipset RV515). Although I followed all the guidelines from the following resources: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon I have encountered an…
Speed-up system by SquashFs
It has been a while since I installed Gentoo. I always searched for new ways to improve the speed my system boot and run. After goggling little bit on net I found something about SquashFs and how to use it…
Gentoo Initramfs - howto
I have attempted to create a Initramfs file system for my Gentoo kernel in order to use it as a rescue shell whenever I am getting boot problems. Gentoo have a comprehensive wiki about this but I was unable to…
How to choose the right kernel I/O scheduler
I was searching for a way to improve my system responsiveness knowing that I/O is a major factor that can influence this. Yes, I can change my HDD with a affordable SSD but I was looking for something that would…