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For some reason, the Gentoo install of erlang put the man pages into man sections that ended in “erl”. For example, instead a directory named man3 for the 3rd man page section, it’s man3erl.

I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections.

~/.bashrc

I’m working on getting our Rails-based app, at work (OBT - obtech.net), working with SSL.

Since we all use OSX as our main dev boxen here, as well as Gentoo Linux machines, I long ago started hacking and helping on the Gentoo-Alt Prefix Portage project, so that I could help create one software repository we all use here. I found it very time consuming, before hand, to help other devs install and configure pieces of software every time they needed something — they’re not n00bs or anything, just UNIX CLI stuff isn’t their usual cup of tea.

I’m in the process of (re-)becoming an official Gentoo developer, focusing on Prefix Portage this time (last time was GNUstep). Until that goes through, I have a prefix-portage overlay, which is accessible through layman, or you can use SVN to check it out at http://www.dicianno.org/svn/PrefixPortage/branches/overlay-fafhrd/.

So, to summarize the point of this post, shortly, I got SSL support working in the Apache ebuild that was already in my overlay, at least on OSX. So, get to it!

So you probably discovered that your MacBook Pro runs about as hot as the corona of the Sun.

If you’re at my blog here, you probably run some GNU / Linux distro. Just a guess.

If you’re running a GNU / Linux distro, there’s a good chance you installed the binary ATI drivers and associated tools, even though it makes your soul bleed.

So, if you have ati-config you can do the following:

Once you get the number to use, likely same as above with ‘1′, you can do

You can also use –effective=startup to have this saved in your X config file. Personally, I like to be able to change it on the fly.

I emerged spamassassin, which installed the spamd server, and the spamc client, with which to talk to the server.

However, the logs were complaing TELL commands have not been enabled. It seems that SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd is missing the -l (–allow-tell) option.

Adding the above -l to SPAMD_OPTS allowed spamc to talk to spamd and make it start learning.

I added a short section to the 5670 howto page describing a small, but scary issue regarding DVD movie playback. Basically, the region code was never set, so I used the regionset utility to set a region code. This enabled DVD movie playback to continue as I was used to.

I didn’t expect suspend-to-ram / sleep to work, since I was very suspicious of the binary ATI drivers, and honestly, they don’t seem to have the best reputation. More notes to follow on the main 5670 page…

If anyone else wants info regarding Gentoo (or another distro) on the Acer Aspire 5670, the page has been updated to the point where it is somewhat useful. Included is my kernel config and xorg.conf.

I’ll be keeping a journal of my installation and usage experiences of Gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5670. I purchased the 5670 in early February, and mainly used it as a Windows gaming machine until now. ATI released on 4/12/06 a new version of their proprietary drivers that support the X1400 graphics chip in this laptop, so I am hopeful that my experiences of using this laptop’s full feature set is quite likely.

Read about the install process, configuration files, and my general experiences.