Stuff your box with fonts!

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Installed mad fonts on gentoo…

emerge -Davu media-fonts/font-bh-type1 media-fonts/font-bh-ttf media-fonts/terminus-font media-fonts/arkpandora media-fonts/liberation-fonts media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en  media-fonts/dejavu  media-fonts/freefonts ttf-bitstream-vera corefonts

And no need to stop there. I grabbed fonts from Vista…

copy -v /vista/Windows/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/mdm_from_vista/

…but I’m not quite sure yet how to get X to know about them… in the meantime, I used [URW Gothic L Semi-Bold] instead of Microsoft’s [Century Gothic Bold], and it’s getting the job done (literally, it’s for my resume).

Comments | Sunday, January 18, 2009

[Update MythTV kernel] HOWTO updated: [ivtv] is now included in kernel

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In my mythtv kernel configuration HOWTO, there are several kernel modules that must be re-emerged after a new kernel is installed. [ivtv] was particularly troublesome, because each version of ivtv only applied to a specific kernel version. To install a new kernel, you’d have to first make sure you could get the right version of [ivtv], typically through version-specific masking (pita), then install the kernel, then re-install [ivtv], hoping you didn’t run into any problems. So it’s a lot easier now that [ivtv] is included in the kernel – just configure it into the kernel and you’re good to go. See gentoo’s [ivtv] web page for details, it’s just starting to get documented. But gentoo packages are all good to go! Yay gentoo!

Comments | Tuesday, January 13, 2009

kelogviewer not worth dependencies

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I was trying to find a better alternative to elogviewer, because it doesn’t come up sorted by reverse date. [kelogviewer] was the candidate, so I unmasked it, but the deps are creeping. Kill it…

Comments | Tuesday, January 13, 2009