war journal 006

to be honest i was going out of my mind on how to get the scroll to work on gentoo linux.

stupid me couldn't be bothered to google. eventually i did. it must have been hours.

when in doubt. google it. seriously.

anyway add these simple lines to your xorg config. simply look for the mouse section... and copy the lines below and scroll will be enabled after restarting X.

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"


last post i mentioned that i'd go into the home networking in greater detail. turns out that shorewall, now shoreline is a much more complex beast from the last time i played with it.

i suggest reading and following the instructions from gentoo's home router guide.

but my little change comes with the masquerader and firewalling features of shorewall.

so i emerged shorewall... then after playing with the configuration files... told me i needed to compile ipv6 with the kernel. so i modified make.conf... and included ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" then did an

emerge sync && emerge gentoo-sources

to get the latest stuff.

then after fetchign the sources, symlinked the new kernel directory to /usr/src/linux, copied the old .config to the new directory and added the ipv6 packages.

i was too lazy to read other stuff... and while the kernel was compiling, did an:

emerge -u --fetchonly world && emerge -u world

to update my system. turned out that i needed to make some changes to my net work config at /etc/conf.d/net --- because the new pppoe stuff had a more modular convention that threw away the old stuff.

when it was done, i rebooted, and the system was back online.

then i played with shorewall for the firewalling settings.

but i seem to have been locked out of the internet. so i turned it off.

oh well, i'm tired so i gave up on it... for the time being.

after getting the firewall to run, i'm considering migrating from my 6.8.x xorg-x11 and building modular xorg-x11... but after reading the gentoo modular migration how to it seemed it to be a dangerous transition.