Am I asking this in the wrong forum perhaps?

I can't believe that there wouldn't be a way to 're-link' ELF binaries and shared objects so they only reference to libraries they actually need.

Over at www.osnews.com there was a topic on GNOME getting more optimization in the future. Someone pointed out that many GNOME libraries (but not just GNOME libraries) have unused library dependancies.

I have noticed before that this indeed happens (I believe I even posted a topic on it), but it ...

I almost opened a new topic on this very issue. What a coincidence

I haven't found a solution yet, though... But if I find it, I will report here.

Does it work in Qt apps as well? I think I have the same problem, without a solution. AMSN and all Qt/KDE apps won't insert the euro sign, but GTK 2.x apps work just fine.

I just gave NetworkMonitor a try, but I can't say it really works. In fact, it's a true gtk/glib app in the sense that the error messages it spits out are of no good to anyone but the developer who wrote it...

This is what I get:

* Starting NetworkManager...

** (process:21425): CRITICAL **: file ...

'Utopia' works really great in that I can plug in a USB disk and have it automount. But, the fstab entry it creates stays there forever, which is kind of Annoying. Do I need to configure something to make it remove entries?

And is this a hal issue, or a gnome-volume-manager issue?

I have installed mono and some other mono-related packages in /opt/mono. I have created a script in /etc/env.d that sets PKG_CONFIG_PATH, LDPATH and PATH to the correct values. Manually compiling c# application works great, but when emerging a c# application, it cannot find mcs.

[edit]I forgot to ...

Hello there!

I am looking for some nice programs to download binaries from usenet with. So far I have found nzbget to be really good for downloading, but I have yet to find a decent program that will let me browse the groups and export such a nice nzb file.

The box I'm using is pretty low on RAM ...

I have used the readahead method glen suggested. I used glen's readahead.files (removed some files that I didn't have) but there's still a LOT of disk activity when start KDE. I've made readahead.c more verbose, and it shows that it's pre-loading the KDE that are listed. I'm not sure why it's not ...

Awesome, thanks for pointing that out Wedge_ and Lews_Therin. No wonder I didn't find it before...

And I didn't remember that fglrxconfig asked anything about vsync

Does anyone know how to enable vsync for OpenGL? I have searched google and this forum (heh, like the search of this forum ever returns anything useful...), but I can't find the answer!

I'm using the fglrx driver on an Ati Mobility 9200.

Very nice HOWTO! I haven't tried it out yet, but I will as soon as possible!

One thing though, the part about dbus being masked by keyword...The bmg ebuild *also* fetches a fresh copy from CVS.. You're basically doing the same, taking the same risks, but with more effort to maintain the installed ...

Acer 3000 is awesome and gentoo runs on it with no problems. Everything is working including wireless, modem and synaptics touchpad with 2.6.3 kernel. I started using Acer about 2 years ago and I wouldn't go with anything else now. Great value for money and very durable. Over 30 of them in our ...

Has anyone managed to figure out a proper solution for GNOME yet? It's quite annoying that GNOME seemingly lacks usability....

What's the chipset for the Mobility 9200? I know the new release of xorg is supposed to have improved support for new model ATI cards. I've got an R100, so I can't confirm or deny this. :wink:

lspci returns this:
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 5c61 [Radeon ...

I am new to all things ATI... I have an ATI Mobility 9200, what drivers should I use for xorg 6.8? I currently selected 'radeon' but OpenGL acceleration is non-existing. Could anyone help me out?

I'm trying to find out what the ideal configuration would be for using The GIMP in KDE.

Currently, the default configuration is horrible, especially with "click to focus" enabled. The problem is, shortcuts behave differently depending on the window that has focus. CTRL+C doesn't copy the ...

Hi,

As many people know, starting an application on Linux sometimes takes a little while. There have been a few solutions that try to tackle this issue, one being the 'prelink' tool.

But maybe there is another way. You see, I have been playing around with a simple "hello world!" program. For ...

Oh-my-god. ifplugd is totally friggin' SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!

I can specify a timeout for dropping connection! that's like totally what I want!

Thank you all for persuading me to use ifplugd

install ifplugd , configure it and add it to the default runlevel, then remove net.eth0 from the default runlevel.
As soon as the cable is inserted, net.eth0 is started, and when the cable is removed, net.eth0 is stoped.
Using this on my own laptop, and it runs lovely.

I'm sure it runs lovely for ...

Does the automatic unmounting of the Windows partitions work when the partition is in use (by an open konqueror, or bash prompt sitting there)? If not, that that could be a bit dangerous.

Thing is, I am dual booting between Windows and Linux. Sometimes I might forget wether I have suspended Linux ...

Either you use something like ifplugd (which is in portage) or you set the DHCP timeout by hand.
To do this, you have to edit your /etc/conf.d/net.

There should be something like
iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"
The value after '-t' is the time in seconds, that dhcpcd should wait for a lease ...

Hi,

I have just installed Gentoo on a friends laptop. So far, I have gotten everything working (swsusp2, wlan, pcmcia, usb, sound, xorg-x11, etc.). But one thing that bothers me is the built-in network card.

I have set it up to use dhcp, but when there is no cable plugged in at boot-time, it waits ...

Hi,

has anyone tried to make xdm boot before other non-critical services?

xdm is the last thing that boots (that is done on purpose in the startup script), but booting could appear a lot faster if xdm was started earlier.

Services like cups, lisa, samba, etc. can all bootup after xdm has, since ...

I am using Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1, and ACPI does not seem to be fireing any battery/ac_adapter events. I can check the status of the ac_adapter from /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, and it is updated correctly. However, the default.sh script never gets called when I unplug the AC adapter.

I have ...