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

2006-07-27 Thread Farhan Ahmed
this thread before you (including the starting thread). 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 / farha

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

2006-07-27 Thread Farhan Ahmed
the > mail to a thread it doesn't show up in your inbox.. as it already has a copy > and isn't "new" mail This seems not the problem in this case as I'm using GMail and am receiving all the mail's to the mailing list. The "feature" of GMail whereby

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

2006-07-10 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ill work with the latest nvidia-drivers. One more thing James, there is no need to do an emerge nvidia-kernel and emerge nvidia-glx anymore.. There is a new unified ebuild x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. Just do a emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. I suggest you do $ echo "x11-drivers/nvi

Re: [gentoo-user] Ignore this message

2006-07-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this Helps.. Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) pgp4C2t8ny0Ru.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-06-22 Thread Farhan Ahmed
iterate over all such files. Will this work for mbox format as well? Thanks in advance, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick: farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) Check Out

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper driver version in gentoo-sources 2.4.32-r4 kernel

2006-05-16 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Joe Harvell wrote: > Never mind, I figured it out. Could you please share with us how you did that? > Joe Harvell wrote: > >Is there a way I can tell which device-mapper version is in this kernel? Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key

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

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
a problem? I read somewhere 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 :

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

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
nu > 3.4.5 > ajglap ~ # Try this # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 # source /etc/profile Hope that helps 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 pgpDOJFoyJMEE.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ot then you need to check the CD-ROM 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 / farhan

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

2006-05-13 Thread Farhan Ahmed
poe based setup 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.

[gentoo-user] Help required regarding posting/replying

2006-05-13 Thread Farhan Ahmed
, with baselayout-1.11.14-r8 include support for kernel mode pppoe (i.e., no rp-pppoe required for ADSL connection)? The net.example in the above said baselayout does not seem to have instructions about it. Thanks in advance, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG K

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

2006-05-13 Thread Farhan Ahmed
orks now though, I wonder if this is a small bug, i.e. the $PIDFILE has > never been defined except in the pppoe.conf, > and unfortunately, the only definition is not correct.. Strange!! I had never come across this issue when I was using rp-pppoe for my ADSL connection. Farhan

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

2006-05-11 Thread Farhan Ahmed
all. Are you sure you've started the ssh server on your router? To start the ssh server, type this: /etc/init.d/sshd start To start the ssh server everytime you boot the system, add ssh server to default run level, like this, rc-update add ssh default Hope this should make the ssh

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

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ms. Why don't you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wilki/wikipedia It also has 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

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

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
way whatsoever. Can you tell me, why 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 I

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

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ency? > > Granted, it'll look better, but that's 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 (becaus

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

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
tem.map to /boot. My grub.conf follows below. In /boot I have > System.map and System.map-2.6.15.1 files (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).. Thi

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

2006-05-08 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Any hurdles to leap? 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: farha

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread Farhan Ahmed
e with minimal file structure so > that I don't have to mount the whole root from an NFS share. > > > > I only want to mount the portions with user persistent data. > > > > Any Ideas? > > > > Thanks. > What were you thinking when you wer

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

2006-05-06 Thread Farhan Ahmed
enwengo.org), it's in ~x86 branch of portage.. 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.

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
/Linux? I'm not saying that you are entirely wrong, but your assumption 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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ith userlocales USE flag, in my /etc/locales.build I just have en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 so 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 surp

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
was using 2.4-r1. As I wrote, it might be, that my system > 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 A

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
en you cannot trust any Free 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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
y NewsLetter: http://www.gentoo.org/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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ptil recently.. I read the "Using UTF-8 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 :

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
E.utf8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > en_US > en_US.utf8 > > Before glibc-2.4-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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
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" > > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
MPlayer to any other format recognized 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

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
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. Fin

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

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
At present all my partitions have ext3 as their FS (except /boot and /tmp).. This is how I passed 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

[gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Farhan Ahmed
/dev/SWAP none swap 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

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) A eureka moment!

2006-05-03 Thread Farhan Ahmed
and ogg files on them also > No.. > (snip) I'm hoping that KDE Dev's decide to the same to DVD also.. It'd be great.. :) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-03 Thread Farhan Ahmed
changing the permissions of /dev/sda*.. I suggest you do a chmod 0666 /dev/sda* and then try to mount it.. If it succeeds then change the ownership to group disk chown root:disk /dev/sda* and the permissions to 660 (rw/rw) chmod 0660 /dev/sda* I'm not sure wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
andards.. I'm using it, the sound 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 WengoPh

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

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
support from packages, i add line like this to /etc/portage/package.use www-client/links -jpeg -png -sdl -svga -tiff I also don't suggest hardened USE flag.. You most certainly don't need them.. Trust me.. Add these lines to /etc/make.conf to further fine tune t

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

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
e USE="kde qt" line to /etc/make.conf as they are enabled by default > How can I specifically re-build a package with changed USE flags? (snip) emerge --newuse --update --deep world Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed PS: For more info about portage and USE flags, check the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
w to solve that problem? > First of all don't start a new topic by replying 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

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

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
#x27;s clock format to local. 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

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

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
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] ssmtp.conf security concern

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ption, uncomment the next line #tls Be sure to execute chmod 0600 ~/.msmtprc I copied these info from Gentoo Documentation.. 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 su

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

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
sable results came up 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] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
required.. Proper guidance 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 WengoPho

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

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ofile it's turned off.. 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?

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
l at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember 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] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
. I think its 250+ fps.. If not i'm 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 N

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

2006-04-28 Thread Farhan Ahmed
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 --

Re: [gentoo-user] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ame up before the default (level 3) gets started, i.e., even before my firewall starts!!!.. I checked my rc-update, but net.eth0 is still in default level.. Any pointers as to why this happening? Earlier it used to start in default level, but now 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] pppd and adsl

2006-04-23 Thread Farhan Ahmed
ame up before the default (level 3) gets started, i.e., even before my firewall starts!!!.. I checked my rc-update, but net.eth0 is still in default level.. Any pointers as to why this happening? Earlier it used to start in default level, but now 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] where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-21 Thread Farhan Ahmed
core 148804 1 > unix 29712 4 > > I'm using ppp-2.4.3-r14. When I emerged it I was told > that I must > > emerge -u '>=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11' > > as well as add bsd_comp and ppp_deflate to my kernel > conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Farhan Ahmed
l bring gnome up. For more info on other desktop's checkout the Gentoo docs at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Hope this helps, Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 Skype ID: farhanahmed06 IRC Nick: farhanah

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

2006-04-17 Thread Farhan Ahmed
[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 p