One moment... people seem to like top-posting here... I'll just re-arrange the order of posts, back to the way it *should be*... RFC1855 is a good read ;-)
Petr´s mailing list wrote:
>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
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.
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
192MB should be okay. IIRC, the problem is with RAM == 512MB, not RAM < 512MB or RAM > 512MB. :-) Mind you... more RAM won't hurt. :-D
`emerge konqueror` should do what you want. :-)
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