Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
While were on the subject: is there something like esync for eix? (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) I've grown used to this and its currently making me stick with esearch. On Monday 09 January 2006 03:03, John Myers wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchana

[gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
Hi There! Can anyone here shed some light on the connection between these three apps? I'm working on getting my iPAQ (3970) to sync with KDE. And it is working now with syncekonnector which is now in portage. It just suddenly worked after I played around a bit with these things. I Just don't un

Re: [gentoo-user] oxford vs prolific vs other firewire chipsets

2005-11-14 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 14 November 2005 08:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: > (A little OT, but hey, I use gentoo :) > > I am looking for a recommendation for a usb 2 and firewire 2.5 inch > external case. > > I heard that there are problems with the prolific firewire chipset, a > friend had one that wiped the partitio

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-07 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:44, Mike Markowski wrote: > I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to > easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. > > After installing, will it be enough to use my current > /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf follo

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-04 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 04 July 2005 15:29, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200 > > Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. > > I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but n

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-03 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 04 July 2005 00:03, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 > > Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then > > perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. > > Here is why ATI won't becom

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-27 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Monday 27 June 2005 21:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to > get, so I'm polling for recommendations. > > Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the > device. > > I'd prefer to be able to simply mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-06-24 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: > hello ppl > > i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. > > the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300 based > > How are the drivers for this graphic card?? > > Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to play ga