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“Cannot find -lGl”

Posted on: Monday, June 9th, 2008 in: Linux

I’m setting up another Gentoo on my office desktop.
My compiler on Gentoo stops at this error when compiling certain packages. I just noticed that as I tried to install binary drivers for ATI card (X1300).
I tried to re-emerge GCC, but it didn’t help. But finally I noticed the cause as I searched through the forum [...]

Gave My Gentoo A New Kernel

Posted on: Friday, June 8th, 2007 in: Linux

My kernel has been upgraded to 2.6.21. The sound card driver provided by my previous kernel 2.6.18 did not properly support my sound card, and I had to use alsa-driver sound modules. Now I have compiled the driver that comes with 2.6.21 into the new kernel, and it works perfectly.
I also decided to give my [...]

A Touch of Beryl

Posted on: Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 in: Linux

I was living with OpenBox as my Windows Manager for more than a year, and now it is time to embrace Beryl. Ever since Compiz, I tried to install and feel it on my Gentoo. It was never a success, unless I switched to another distro that supports Compiz out of the box.
Compiz is a [...]

Adding DAG to CentOS

Posted on: Friday, May 19th, 2006 in: Linux

This might help when you want to include DAG repository in CentOS.
Firstly, import Dag’s GPG keys.
rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
Secondly, create a repo for yum in /etc/yum.repos.d, and name it something like dag.repo. And add the following to that file:
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/

Better Than Flowers On Valentine’s Day

Posted on: Thursday, February 16th, 2006 in: Java, Linux, PHP

Here comes Valentine’s Gift from Yahoo! For our everyday’s HTML and AJAX needs, Yahoo! has just given us Yahoo! User Interface Library, and all the components are released under Open Source License (BSD License). Better than flowers, huh?
Yeah, we’ve got libraries and that pushes us further into endless possibilities of creating useful applications. To make [...]