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| -rw-r--r-- | content/posts/gentoo-kernel-upgrade.md | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | content/posts/setting-up-ly.md | 10 |
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diff --git a/content/posts/gentoo-kernel-upgrade.md b/content/posts/gentoo-kernel-upgrade.md index c7f9b44..361d4d3 100644 --- a/content/posts/gentoo-kernel-upgrade.md +++ b/content/posts/gentoo-kernel-upgrade.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title = "Gentoo kernel upgrade" subtitle = "" summary = "A brief howto on updating the kernel on a Gentoo system." categories = [ "linux", "guide" ] -tags = [ "gentoo", "kernel", "linux", "sysadmin" ] +tags = [ "linux", "gentoo", "kernel", "sysadmin" ] date = "2024-12-10" +++ @@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I will not delve too much on the details here. You can check exactly which kernel options features to enable on the wiki[^nvidia]. -However I recently found the solution to a problem which caused my tty to be blank. +However, I recently found the solution to a problem which caused my TTYs to be blank. I had accidentally activated `FB_SIMPLE`, `SYSFB_SIMPLEFB` and `DRM_SIMPLEDRM`. -They should cause problems with newer nvidia drivers and should be disabled[^fb-nvidia]. +These options cause problems with newer nvidia drivers and should be disabled[^fb-nvidia]. ```sh {class="cmd-root"} emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers diff --git a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md index f1d6fe2..b2f1f55 100644 --- a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md +++ b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ +++ -title = 'Setting up Ly' +title = 'Setting up Ly on Gentoo' date = 2025-01-08T01:00:52+01:00 summary = "My experience with installing the `ly` display manager." categories = [ "linux", "guide" ] -tags = [ "display-manager", "ly", "linux", "gentoo", "tty" ] +tags = [ "linux", "gentoo", "display-manager", "ly", "tty" ] +++ > Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Despite having made the `.xinitrc` an executable shell script, I am instantly logged out every time I try it. After some debugging, I discovered that the root of the problem was my home layout. -To adopt the XDG specification, I had moved the xinitrc and many more files to the `.config` +To adopt the XDG specification, I had moved the xinitrc and most of my configuration files to the `.config` directory. The environmental variables (`PATH`, `XINITRC`, etc.) were being assigned in my `.zshrc` file, @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ After this last change, I could finally start a X session from `ly`. :partying_f ## Configuring Ly -My initial modifications to the `/etc/ly/config.ini` are the following. +These are my initial modifications to the `/etc/ly/config.ini` file. ```diff 36c36 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ My initial modifications to the `/etc/ly/config.ini` are the following. 174c174 < session_log = ly-session.log --- -> session_log = ~/.cache/ly-session.log +> session_log = .cache/ly-session.log 192c192 < text_in_center = false --- |