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

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] 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] 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 [EMAIL

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 things