Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to Xorg problem.
# 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 4.3.8 or something, and I really want Xorg. Because you guys in portage merged XFree and XOrg, I would just really need to update Xorg-x11. The only problem is when I attempt so, Mozilla FireFox and Thunderbird are blocking the mandatory freetype package. What can I do?? Ian -- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?
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. If something came out that was AMD64 Generation 2 specific (and wasn't supported by regular AMD64), it'd have a USE flag that only works on AMD64. And you wouldn't want to turn that flag on on a normal AMD64, since it doesn't support it. Right now, if you compile mplayer, you'll get MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNOW and all that crap. Just there are no special USE flags for it.On 4/30/05, Kiawud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 4/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:54:57 + Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i dont understand whats going on here. I thought those flags enabled | the useof extended sets of the x86 instruction set, and amd64 chips | are in the x86family, aren't they? and they support those | extensions, I'm sure, so whatthen do those flags do that the amd64 | can't make use of the flags?I thought that if you 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' it'll show you the flagsthat are compatible with your cpu.Is that not accurate for the amd64chip?-Hani --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc
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 XULRunner. On 4/17/05, Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of these are built on the same set of libraries and each one downloads and builds its own copy. Is anyone investigating making the common code into a mozilla-core package?I'd really like a way to cut down the time spent building these apps.dcm-- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list From Googling, it looks like you'll be helping to pay his bills and his $20,000 worth of Gentoo-related debt... I haven't been around that long so I don't know for sure.-- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Don't buy from NETGEAR
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 things is finally rock solid andI now realize that one of my 3 wireless cards works only sometimes.Luckily, I have two of that card.One copy works every time in twodifferent machines and the other works sometimes in them.Very long story short, they will not replace my bad card because Ican't try it in Windows.I even explained to them that I bought 3Netgear wireless cards and one Netgear router through Dell 6 monthsago.Even after a lot of yelling and bad noise they would not budge.The rep said he agreed with me but that that it is out of his hands.He also would not put me on the phone with his supervisor.- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Kind of requires you to know Windows, but you could lie to them. I do it to Earthlink all the time (their dialin server doesn't work well). That said, I have a Belkin F5D6001v3 that broke, and they replaced it free. They didn't ask very many questions at all. And when the WLAN router broke, the technician didn't deny me support when I said that my workstation uses Linux. I'm not going to recommend them, since all of the crap I've bought from them has broke, but they do have a lifetime warranty with free replacement. So, if you're okay with replacing your hardware every 9-12 months for free, sure, go with them. And in my experience, Netgear blows. Even on Windows.-- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.-- Linus Torvalds
