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Gentoo is a free and open source Linux and FreeBSD distribution that uses the Portage package management system.

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loginctl-hooks + slock not working as expected

I have openrc init system and I want to lock my loginctl session with slock on running loginctl suspend. I am using the loginctl hooks for the purpose. loginctl man page : Hook directories [/usr]/lib[...
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Why do I get this error when trying to run Kuberentes/K3s: "setting cgroup config for procHooks process: bpf_prog_query(BPF_CGROUP_DEVICE) failed"

Today I noticed I my Kuberentes/K3s cluster has a problem. On the node that was defined in my ~/.kube/config file the API server was not running, so I could not use kubectl. I studied the logfiles and ...
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VLC Not able to detect/choose default audio device output

I'm on a clean Funtoo install and after setting up ALSA i've just tried to play some movies through VLC but it doesn't seem to be able to detect/choose the default output audio device. If i go to ...
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QEMU-KVM VM freezing the host machine when using Nvidia gpu PCI passthrough

I have intel integrated graphics and nvidia 1650 mobile graphics card. I am loading my xorg server only using the integrated GPU. The NVIDIA GPU loads which nvidia driver on boot. I have libvirt hooks ...
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How to tell if a distro was made using Gentoo

I've downloaded a Linux distribution and tried it on my PC. When I checked the documentation I noticed that there was no information about how it was developed. I wonder if it was developed using ...
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xrandr doesn’t detect display ports

I have a ThinkPad T510 laptop with Gentoo Linux installed on it and I can’t manage to get VGA and DisplayPort working. xrandr -q won’t show them, so I’m guessing, that there’s a problem with my kernel ...
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Xorg turns laptop screen off on startup on Gentoo

I am having a problem with my Gentoo installation (binary kernel) where Xorg only turns off my laptop's screen when using Startx, and I can only change TTY to use Gentoo but only on CLI. This happened ...
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restore /dev after `rm`ing it

during a gentoo install from the livedvd, there's one step to create a dev dir to be used later in the chroot of the target for the instalation it's done like that mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev ...
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pkg-config doesn't find package file when folder is listed in PKG_CONFIG_PATH

So here is my PKG_CONFIG_PATH contents: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig and here is the output of locate lv2.pc (lv2 is the library I'm trying to link with) /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/lv2....
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ffplay cannot play aac and mp4a (which is aac audio in an mp4 file) and ffprobe segfaults when given a file with aac audio [closed]

When I try to play a file with aac audio in ffplay, I get the following error: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1oCITTuaLMsLo0bs6lGbw9mZTzdwwBB/view?usp=sharing Also, when I do ffprobe sample-1.aac, ...
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Downloaded files are read only

I'm using the latest Firefox version (112) on Gentoo, and each time I download a file (even if it's compressed and I extract it) it's read only. I can fix this by simply changing the permissions but ...
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Samba share not appearing on smart TV

I reinstalled my Gentoo installation and after that I tried to get the Samba server to show on a smart TV, as it did before I reinstalled, but even though I had the old configuration file, it didn't ...
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List currently installed unstable packages (Gentoo Linux)

I accidentally removed my package accept_keywords file. There were only a few packages which I needed from ~amd64, but I can't remember them all. I could recover them if I had the list all the ...
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How to force software master volume control in PulseAudio?

I have a sound card lacking hardware volume control (Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 connected on USB). Yet PulseAudio seems to think it does have hardware volume control. When I adjust the ...
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Gentoo kernel panic on hyper-v

I recently installed gentoo. I followed the guide for amd64 installation. I double-checked if the /boot was mounted before I installed the bootloader (GRUB). I chose the GPT+UEFI option for partition ...

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