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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 3:43 pm, marcos ferreyra wrote: |
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> Examples of things that DON'T WORK out-of-the-box are |
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> * wireless (in my experience, very hard to set up) |
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(Never tried w/ Gentoo.) |
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> * software suspend |
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There is no stable software suspend for Linux at all. Hardly something that |
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Gentoo can fix without kernel hackers joining one of the projects. |
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> * printers |
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Can be fixed by emerging the drivers w/ cups automatically. Perhaps a |
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USE=extra-drivers adding RDEPENDs |
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> --- Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 03:23, Gábor Farkas wrote: |
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> > > set up a printer in gnome. |
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> > > |
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> > > i must admit, maybe i just don't know how to do |
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> > it. |
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> > |
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> > > i usually emerge kdebase, and use kcontrol (kde |
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> > control center) |
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> > > to add a cups printer. |
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> > > |
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> > > so, if there's a normal way to add a printer in |
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> > gnome, tell me. |
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> > |
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> > emerge gnome-cups-manager |
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> > I really wish this ebuild would add a .desktop entry |
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> > to the Desktop |
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> > Preferences section of my Gnome menu by default. In |
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> > fact, you might |
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> > even have it on your system and just not know it. |
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> > -- |
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> > Chris Gianelloni |
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> > Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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> > Games - Developer |
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> > Gentoo Linux |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
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> |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
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