Thanks Steve,

I have 192MB RAM. Is it enough to run X server. I can see it is really not easy 
to compile things to get Konqueror up and running.
 
Petr
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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > I understand that o2 can run X-server so I had been searching some www 
> > browser and mail-client on portage-packages and found that there are no 
> > many of them:
> > dillo and mutt. Is it really like this it is not ported netscape or mozilla 
> > on o2 under gentoo? thanks for info
> > Petr
> Well, O2 can *maybe* run an X server depending on how much RAM you have
> and if you are using a properly patched kernel.  And by "depending on
> how much RAM you have" I mean if you have 512mb, you need to either add
> or remove RAM or else X won't work.
> 
> Anyway, to answer your real question, if you were looking to use your O2
> to browse the web with some mozilla based browser, you are out of luck
> at this time with Gentoo.  Mozilla based stuff uses crappy asm code for
> libxpcom, which was never ported properly for mips, so it won't compile.
>  There is a patch to fix this, but it also requires some nasty binutils
> patches that may break anything qt related.  Plus, when I did try it,
> mozilla would just segfault on startup anyway.  If you really want a
> decent browser, you will have to emerge kdebase to get konqueror, which
> is really painful because then you need kdelibs and qt in addition.  You
> could unmask the split konqueror ebuild, but you would still need qt and
> kdelibs, so it wouldn't be *that* much of a timesaver.
> 
> I do plan on looking into fixing this some time in the future, but I
> just don't have time right now.
> 
> -Steve
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