I use two mice on my Gentoo box due to few good reasons. Trying to get them to work all the time took some time though I am not sure if that's because I am too stupid to make them work together.

Anyways, here's what worked for me:

~ # less /proc/bus/input/devices

Find the line that says "Handlers" below your Synaptics and the other mouse.

Lucene is a very nice, robust and flexible search engine. The ways you can benefit from Lucene varies from small library system to a large e-commerce portal. To unleash Lucene, you either have to use Lucene ported to your favorite language or install Solr and let Solr handle communication with Lucene. Here we are going to install Solr on a Gentoo Linux box with Tomcat as the servlet container. To get started, install Tomcat using: # emerge tomcat Default Tomcat configuration reserves the port 8080 for Tomcat which is fine unless you have another service running on that port. Now let's download Solr: ~ $ mkdir solr ~ $ cd solr

I was in a mess, couldn't find out why OpenOffice used to do spell checking on Ubuntu and now it doesn't. Same with Pidgin. My USE flags were all fine. Rebuilding any of them won't fix the problem. aspell was installed as well as ispell and hunspell. I was about to knock my head off. Finally found out it was as simple as: emerge myspell-en