Apparently the vanilla use flag was turned on on my system, and the description of it insists almost entirely of a warning not to turn it on for system wide use... no idea how it would have gotten turned on, as I don't remember it at all...

Removing the use flag causes gcc to build correctly.

For the record.... something still wasn't quite right... 3d stuff worked great, but when I tried to use mythtv (which uses open-vsync to time the video apparently) it maxed out my cpu and still couldn't quite play... I decided mythtv is a lot more important to me than 3d games are, so I've gone ...

Okay, I've fixed the issue... sorta.

After installing the drivers directly from nvidia, and then switching to the xorg-x11 opengl interface (which I'm thinking is actually using nvidia glx, as the 'standard' glx location is where the official nvidia installer would install to, not the dir that ...

my advise to you is stop fussing and your card isnt broken thats just how it is. Although if you do find a fix I would be interested but I don't think you will.
I didn't say my card was broken, precisely the opposite. The problem is NOT with the card, it is a software/driver problem. I'm tempted ...

I hate to brake it to you but the MX cards are very slow. Infact a GeForce 3 Ti 300/500 will blow that card away. The MX were cheap stripped down versions, and they really were subsets of a Geforce 3 chipset, not 4 like it says. Still if you were getting more before something "changed."

NO ...

Ah, I see.

I was confused about how good my video card was. I think I will look for a better one. Thanks.
No, I don't think you were.
I've been having similiar problems as you... Everything seems to be setup correctly for hardware acceleration, but EVERY opengl app I've tried runs as though it's ...

Congrats! As far as I've been able to tell this now makes you the second person to ever get this to work (me being the first...)

I think I understand what you are trying to do but lemme repeat it just to make sure we are on the same page...
You are wanting to have two screens, one on your CRT, the other on your TV, and you only want your mouse cursor to go on the CRT?

I've been doing something along the same lines for a ...

Thanks... It's not quite what I wanted but it's the closest I've seen now.

I really do not like digikam for other reasons though, but unless someone knows of another program I guess I'll have to use it until I get time to write my own.

I'm running the 2.6.8.1 kernel (NOT gentoo kernel if it matters) and trying to get an ATI Remote wonder working with lirc.

I've followed all the instructions I found to setup the lirc_atiusb driver for it, but when I run irw it doesn't register any of the button presses.

I've tried a few times and ...

Does anyone know of a keyword based image browsing/management program for linux?

For those that don't know what I mean... Imagine you have a bunch of photos of various things, including photos of trees and your uncle bob.. Using the software you flag all the photos of trees with the tree keyword ...

iamben wrote:-Os makes smaller binaries, not faster ones. 256mb ram isnt that low, so i dont think -Os will do much for you.

With small amounts of RAM and small caches (like on a celery) using -Os can cause speed increases in many cases by reducing swapping and cache misses.

The easiest way to sync (I have an SL-5500) is with Qtopia Desktop. You can emerge qtopia-desktop-bin if you want to check it out ahead of time.

The main issue for me was that it only supports syncing with certain apps, and the ones I use aren't among them. Maybe you'll be luckier, give it a look ...

For some reasons I have to use "hdc=scsi" instead of "ide-scsi=/dev/hdc"

No matter what I tried, I couldn't get my hard drive to drop into standby when idle... Even if I manually use hdparm put the hard drive into standby, it will immediately spin it right back up.

I recently got a new hard drive and there is the same problem, so I know it's not a problem with the drive ...

It's a bit of a long story why I need to do it, but part of the design of the disc is a single audio track burned in the first session, and a single track of raw audio burned in a second session. I know it may not make much sense but for the project I'm doing it for it makes a lot of sense.

For ...

Does anyone know an easy way to create a multisession audio cd with cdrdao? I know it should be possible but can't find how to do it.

I'm working on a program that the end result should be having an image ready to burn a cd with two seperate audio sessions, both containing a single track of raw ...

Do you mean like kportage?

I believe there is at least one non-KDE portage GUI as well, but I don't know what it's called.

Currently there isn't any way to view or broadcast webcams through yahoo on linux (unfortunatly :( )

GAIM is a nice IM client that can do just about all of the yahoo stuff, except for IMvironments and webcam.

Yahoo has been mucking with their login protocol so GAIM has been having issues logging ...

mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso mountpoint ? .. that's what I usually do.

If you create a file called /etc/shutdown.allow and place the names of the users who are allowed to shut down the computer (one name per line, no spaces), calling shutdown with the -a option will cause the computer to shutdown as long as someone on the allow list is currently logged in to a virtual ...

They could be slow... but Abiword and Gimp should both work (I would imagine Gimp would be noticably slow though ;) )
I'd recommend grabbing another webbrowser though... Links (with the -g option) actually works very well and is very fast, Opera is another good choice (although commercial)
For a ...

If it crashes/locksup for no apparent reason at random times there is a very good chance it is either too much heat buildup (not very unusual on a laptop) or bad ram.
Use memtest to check the ram. As for heat... Hopefully someone else can post the name of a program to watch temporature in linux ...

VMWare doesn't seem to be able to switch the video mode to the same one it needs... I have had this problem a few times and unfornatly the only solution I know of is to use VMWare in windowed mode instead of fullscreen for those console apps...

Centrino is just a mobile p4 (p4m) with the rest of the laptop having builtin wireless capabilities (keep thinking it's bluetooth but I'm sure it must be 108.11b)
That is not correct. The processor that's part of the Centrino platform is the Pentium M, which is a completely new type of chip from ...