Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to Xorg problem.

2005-05-06 Thread Keith Gable
# emerge unmerge xfree86 # emerge unmerge freetype # emerge xorg-x11 freetype I think. Something to that effect should work. xorg and xfree are mutually exclusive, and so is their XFT (IIRC). I've never used XFree on Gentoo, so YMMV. On 5/5/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im on XFree86 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-04 Thread Keith Gable
On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And please turn of HTML for posts in mailing lists. D'oh, sorry. I keep forgetting to hit the "Plain text" button in Gmail... -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-30 Thread Keith Gable
What they're saying is that SSE/SSE2/MMX and so on are automatically applied without the flags. The flags are only there because not every x86 chip supports SSE, SSE2, and so on. On AMD64, the flags are ignored and it's compiled with any of those processor optimizations that it knowingly supports.

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Keith Gable
On 4/19/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote:> Sorry.. I don't get why he's 20,000 in debt due to Gentoo.Daniel Robbins was Chief Architect and founder of gentoo linux. Appearantly he spent more time working on gentoo as he did on earning money ;-)   Which is why I'm pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Gable
On 4/18/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the store is owned by drobbins, and if I buy from the store I'll donate tohim? If this is the case, then that's not exactly the way I thougt it to be, but it's okay for me.Christoph--echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Gable
It's actually a Mozilla thing. The Mozilla apps are usually individually hacked so often you can't run one piece of XUL code on another Gecko engine. i.e. Nvu won't work if you run it as chrome in Thunderbird.   There's work on this and it should land for Firefox 2.0 or Firefox 1.5, and it's called

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-15 Thread Keith Gable
ndiswrapper. That's what I use with my Belkin F5D6001 PCI WLAN card. The drivers required tweaking (I had to download the Realtek RTL8180L Windows driver from their FTP site, and not the newest one, one that was slightly older, and then change the PCI_VEN codes to the F5D6001's codes), but they wor

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Gable
On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I've been screwed over by Netgear for being a Linux user and I need tospread the word.  I've been having a seriously difficult time gettingmy Gentoo machines reliably connected to my wireless network foralmost 6 months.  The software end of th

Re: [gentoo-user] MSN

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Gable
On Apr 7, 2005 2:32 PM, raptor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does anyone know of messaging client for linux that have support for  :-- MSN application sharing and white board ---tia--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listNo, there isn't, that I know of. But I'm sure there's a way. It would require reverse