bleh if you want to merge just open a terminal or jump into the console. use cp.

VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge xfree-drm

do that if you haven't yet.

I believe you have to recompile and reinstall them for every different kernel while in that kernel. I might be wrong.

I don't think my bios supports it so

I think your BIOS would tell you if you had HT or not. I would guess the BIOS would have to recognize it for the OS to recognize it.

good point I will check it.

hmm. I probably got my hopes up for nothing. Do you think that trying out two of the same kernel one with smp enabled and the other not would show a noticeable difference if the processor did have ht?

I bought a dell inspiron 5100 with a pentium4 2.4 ghz processor near the end of last summer. Nowhere does it say anything about it being able to support hyper-threading. However one day I was looking though my proc directory and cat cpuinfo and in the flags was a mysterious ht. At first I was ...

The 1100 with the Intel graphics chip does require a patch for allocation of graphics memory properly on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Oh. You learn something new everyday. And even more with linux.

I have an inspiron 5100 and it has an 845 also. I don't require special drivers for video or graphics besides the intel-agp included with kernel 2.6 and there is one for 2.4 in the kernel also. maybe we have different 845 versions?

Dell Inspiron 1100 and 5100 series laptops' BIOS does not work with the Linux ACPI implementation currently, the biggest problem is the /proc/acpi/events does not generate any events (from what I can see) ever. I have had both an 1100 and a 5100 and neither will do this. You can get the status of ...

I downloaded the rpm for it the normal xd2, aliened it to tgz, and then opened it with file roller which produced a giant tree in my home directory starting at the very bottom at usr. I then went into root and copied that tree into my user tree and I could use industrial perfectly.

rox is very nice.

emerge gnome worked on my first try.

he meant "rc-update add kdm default"

I used rc-update add xdm default for gdm, and it says add xdm for kdm in the docs too.undefined

try changing the protocol in the xf86config file to IMPS/2

mozilla uses gtk I believe. Therefore you would have to chnage the fonts for gtk I believe.

I have noticed that same problem also in gnome-terminal and aterm. I just avoid using nano in the terminal.

There is also almost no difference in speed by changing the kernel optimizations in the makefile.

I never had a problem with that. I saved pictures as a jpg with the default gimp settings and they worked.

or just download the rpm, alien it to tgz, open tgz with file-roller or whatever. a directory system should popout and you should be able to as root to cp the direcory to / and it will work. I did this with the ximian art-work.

I use both -03 and -fomit-frame-pointers. I am pretty sure that the kernel doesn't use the options in make.conf. I might be wrong there, however I have succesfully hacked the kernel Makefile and used both -03 and -fomit-frame-pointer along with -march=pentium4 and had a working kernel. Additionally ...

alias nano="nano -w"

that is mighty nice :)undefined

where exactly did you leave the stage 1 install that night?
emerge should work, if it didn't how did you get your kernel?

I can only assume that somewhere you skipped a step installing.

btw your fstab is right.

well for advance usage yes you need to so some extra stuff. But I never do and find those usages annoying.

that is probably what happened. nautilus most likely crashed. anyway it worked after I rebooted.