Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't emerge --sync after portage-2.1_pre7-r5 installed. The process freezed on receiving file list. I think it's the bug of portage-2.1_pre7-r5, so I downgraded to portage-2.1_pre3-r1. I'm using portage-2.1_pre7-r5 but got no such problems. Re emerge portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 Skype ID: farhanahmed06 IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgp7Le5E6xrkJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpHPgqSKu8Ro.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

it seems it starts in boot level.. Bye, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpBTMvjDods4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

it seems it starts in boot level.. Bye, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpN14Z8dvExt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

Chris Bare wrote: Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too? Because you are giving the --deep (-D) option to it.. oberon # emerge -puD portage Instead of this, execute emerge -u portage, this will only update portage.. Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place

Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

ditching my nvidia card and buying ati.. :) But i'm sure when it comes to performance nvidia is the leader.. Bye, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

to set FEATURES=nostrip too Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpc5NL3Fsmfh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpoyNI9HLIeQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

and knowledge not some rules which deny users the right to post, just because they do not know whether their mail client is sending mail in HTML format.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

when i googled it.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpge8hV5GqdM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp.conf security concern

.. Hope this helps.. Personally i use postfix with my gmail account.. Farhan Ahmed P.S: Give muttng a try.. It has lots of features like nntp, smtp, sidebar support and plenty.. -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpp9KdAyOXlk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)

. When you boot into your system the modification time of files installed during the live CD install is actually in future and that's why the message.. I had the same problem during my first install.. Possible solution? I think a 'touch -m' would do.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

to other non related thread.. As far as skype problem goes, try enabling 'Full Duplex'.. It can be accessed under Control-Center-Sound Multimedia-Sound System-Hardware There's a check box by label Full Duplex, enable it and save it.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

? (snip) emerge --newuse --update --deep world Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed PS: For more info about portage and USE flags, check the Gentoo documentation, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2 read all the sections, they contain valuable info.. -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

for the specific package to /etc/portage/package.use (snip) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpLHvA0x9teU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

quality is better than Skype.. Check out their website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in portage (net-im/wengophone).. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed

[gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

sw /dev/XXX /doc ext3 noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,data=journal /dev/USR /usr ext3 noatime,nodev,data=journal What should I modify top get the best performance in all (ReiserFS, ext3 and XFS) file systems? Thanks In Advance, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

[gentoo-user] Re: Best File System For Linux

the mke2fs command: mke2fs -j -m 1 -O dir_index,filetype,sparse_super /dev/*** What options should I pass to get the max performance in ex3 (other than the above written), ReiserFS, XFS? Thanks in Advance and sorry for such a long post, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it. According

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

by MPlayer.. There are lots of options which you can read by referring to 'man mencoder'.. Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 12:42, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

-r2, it used to be de_DE.UTF-8 and nto de_DE.utf8. Even when my system was running glibc-2.4-r1 the UTF-8 denomination was .utf8.. Just now I upgraded to glibc-2.4-r2 the UTF-8 denomination is still the same i.e., .utf8 (snip) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

with Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml and found out that they mentioned .UTF-8 only no mention of .utf8 !!! As far as I know glibc-2.4 uses .utf8 locales.. No idea when .UTF-8 was changed to .utf8 Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

/news/en/gwn/20041108-newsletter.xml#doc_chap7 If you read it carefully you can see the Zulu locale for South Africa being written as zu_ZA.utf8.. Even on my system with 2.4-r1 glibc the locales were like en_US.utf8 and after upgrading to 2.4-r2 they are still the same.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

Software because it too can be edited.. Agreed that someone might post wrong info, but it's even more likely that someone will recognize it and correct it.. This is the beauty of open source.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

was misbehaving, as it accepted .UTF-8 just fine. I'm afraid I got no idea about it.. Anyway have you changed your locale settings from .UTF-8 to .utf8 (all environment variables etc.,)? Is your system working fine now? Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

the locale -a output, quiet expectantly, is: C en_US en_US.utf8 POSIX But with 2.4-r2 there is no such flag as userlocales and I was expecting glibc to build all locales, but to my surprise I still have the above said locales only.. Any ideas? Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: (snip) PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say gentoo-wiki cannot be trusted just because it can be edited

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

that one must not follow wiki's just because they are world editable is wrong Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgp0Pj1mo3dNw.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows -Linux Video Chat App

.. It supports both audio and video on GNU/Linux and Windows Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgp0Kv7cqmo1C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

only want to mount the portions with user persistent data. Any Ideas? Thanks. What were you thinking when you were typing this? Some nice formatting would really make reading easier.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc-2.4 and Gcc-4.0.3??

? Well except doing a emerge -e system emerge -e world after upgrading to gcc-4.x, no hurdles to leap.. :) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net

Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols

(System.map is a soft link). To make the warning disappear, simply copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot (don't mount the boot partition, i.e., make sure hda1 is *NOT* mounted).. This should hopefully make the warning disappear. (snip) Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

it. IMO transparency is one of the most useless features. Agreed. I find is quiet amusing too. Eye candy does not make an excuse for reduced readability and productivity. BTW my favorite's are konsole (because i use KDE) and I love my screen.. Bye, Farhan Ahmed -- Place

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

you would want to use both tab and screen? They both serve the same purpose. Screen is much better to handle than the tabs. Bye, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

criticism about wikipedia and all other facts about it. If you think something is wrong or inaccurate with the article, please use the power given to you and correct it. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

run level, like this, rc-update add ssh default Hope this should make the ssh server accessible from the systems in your network. 3. (snip) Sorry I got no idea about this stuff.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

rp-pppoe for my ADSL connection. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) Check Out : http://gentooisbest.blogspot.com pgpNaEb674XJm.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

not kernel mode pppoe. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) Check Out : http://gentooisbest.blogspot.com pgpehkG8hRyu9.pgp Description: PGP

Re: FW: [gentoo-user] livecd does not boot after gentoo install

medium as it might have become corrupt. Re-burn the CD and try booting. [...] Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) Check Out

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs apmsleep.c:60: warning: 'rcsid' defined but not used rm apm.o ajglap ~ # ls /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu 3.4.5 ajglap ~ # Try this # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 # source /etc/profile Hope that helps Farhan Ahmed -- Place

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

that the same machine should not be doing more than one emerge --sync per day. Use different rsync mirrors for different PCs. A better solution is found in this HOW-TO http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror Hope That Helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Any way to run files through procmail?

in advance, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) Check Out : http://gentooisbest.blogspot.com pgpk2VfmGCuIW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nv vs nvidia (xorg-7*)

-drivers/nvidia-drivers. Just do a emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. I suggest you do $ echo x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords as the newest drivers have not yet made into the stable branch.. Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

of this problem, as Ralf has not sent any replies to the above mentioned thread's (did not had the time to check every thread, but checked two). This seems like a problem which is affecting some subscribers and not all. This is odd. Hope this gets resolved soon. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

). This count is according to GMane as well as according to my mail client. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgpEvHJEPqnyr.pgp Description: PGP