[gentoo-user] Re: Help emerging audacity

On Monday 01 May 2006 00:46, Ronald Vazquez wrote: > Hello list: > > I just tried to emerge audacity and got the following error: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../libwx_gtk2-2.4.so: > undefined reference to `vtable for wxFileProto' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE crashing on startup

On Monday 01 May 2006 04:09, Ian Kabeary wrote: > Hi there, Im using a PPC arch., and noticed that upon selecting kde-3.5 > from my freshly emerged kdm > that after a minute or so X will restart, bringing me right back to kdm. > This does not happen if I choose to use Fluxbox. > I like Fluxbox, but

[gentoo-user] hald issue

Folks; Just merged hal, dbus, and ivman. dbus starts, but hald does not and there is no hint in the /var/log/messages as to why. Running kernel 2.6.16 (kde-3.5.2) Starting hald gives the following output, but nothing else # /etc/init.d/hald start * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...

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

On 4/30/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When this was complete I ran grub using the commands grub root (hd0,8) setup (hd0) quit My understand of the above is that the root (hd0,8) says place the second part of grub on /dev/sda9 (drive 0, partition 8) while the second says place the f

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

2006/4/30, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/4/30, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: > > > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 > > > > I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese f

[gentoo-user] KDE crashing on startup

Hi there, Im using a PPC arch., and noticed that upon selecting kde-3.5 from my freshly emerged kdm that after a minute or so X will restart, bringing me right back to kdm. This does not happen if I choose to use Fluxbox. I like Fluxbox, but very much prefer KDE. Any ideas? Im thinking that KDE

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

On 4/30/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: > I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it > improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' documented? I cant find any re

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

2006/5/1, Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 01:35:18PM +, wu chuanwen wrote: > > > >Try using this: > > > >$ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox > > > It seems better now, but i am not sure. > I will be very appreciated if you can tell me what the command means! > Thanks! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

John Jolet wrote: > genkernel will allow you > to also issue --menuconfig which will allow you into the kernel > configuration process. I really didn't know that! I thought genkernel just compiled everything! Anyway, I fixed the problem with my initramfs. It was a bug in mkinitrd. I still need t

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

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 01:35:18PM +, wu chuanwen wrote: > > > >Try using this: > > > >$ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 firefox > > > It seems better now, but i am not sure. > I will be very appreciated if you can tell me what the command means! > Thanks! > It disables pango library usage, there's a kn

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

The wiki is the place for it I believe. There is already a kde howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:47:26 -0400 JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home

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

Hmm,Unfortunately it's so long ago that I don't remember where I saw it. Anyway, works for me.Jeff.On 01/05/06, Ryan Tandy < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Farhan Ahmed wrote:> Jeff Rollin wrote:> >> I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it>> improves the speed of KDE a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) > are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are > started. With those in place, it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:46:15 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I won't bother echoing everyone elses response as to how.. however, out > of curiousity I was wondering what your wife's reasoning for wanting > Gentoo on her computer is when she does not want to learn how stuff > work

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

Farhan Ahmed wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' documented? I cant find any reference to it in man gcc.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is

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

Alexander Skwar wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE="-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG" What's that supposed to do? It doesn't seem to be a valid USE flag. I think he meant as CFLAGS, not as USE. In any case, it would only hav

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

On 4/30/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: > 5) In the chroot'ed environment I can see the kernel file at > /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 How did you copy sda1 to sda9? Probably on sda1 there was a symlink: boot -> /, which you didn't preserve during copying. E

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

On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:57, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/30/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try executing this command from the grub command line: > > > > find /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 > > > > It'll return the partition where it finds the file.. It should be > > someth

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

Mark Knecht wrote: > 5) In the chroot'ed environment I can see the kernel file at > /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 How did you copy sda1 to sda9? Probably on sda1 there was a symlink: boot -> /, which you didn't preserve during copying. Either create this symlink, or remove "/boot" from "kernel

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

On 4/30/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try executing this command from the grub command line: find /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 It'll return the partition where it finds the file.. It should be something like (ab0,x).. Then as usual enter the grub commands.. root

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

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:37:20AM +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > How bout using msmtp? It's lightweight and is well documented (?).. To > use it change the value of sendmail in your .muttrc to this: > I'm reading the manual right now, and will probably try it tonight. > Farhan Ahmed > > P.S: G

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: > I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. > In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel > receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool > if you graduate from the simple command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

modules-update only updates for the running version. In order to update the new version, you could simply reboot to the new version. On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 20:32 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 20:18, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > This should be an easy fix -- i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool if you graduate from the simple command line. Under genkernel you have several options for building ei

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

On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I am attempting to move my /boot partition on a specific machine to > make way for a Windows XP dual boot. This machine is the only one with > a graphics adapter that meets the requirements of my son's new game. > >and right now the

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

Try executing this command from the grub command line: find /boot/bzImage-2.6.16-gentoo-r2 It'll return the partition where it finds the file.. It should be something like (ab0,x).. Then as usual enter the grub commands.. root (ab0,x) setup (ab0) quit Hope this h

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

John J. Foster wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I solved my problem of a few days ago by adding > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AuthPass=PASSWORD > > to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. This was related to my ISP now requiring SMTP > AUTH for mail. But I'm concerned about the security implications of > having this in

[gentoo-user] Problems moving /boot partiton

Hi, I am attempting to move my /boot partition on a specific machine to make way for a Windows XP dual boot. This machine is the only one with a graphics adapter that meets the requirements of my son's new game. and right now the machine is no longer booting.. Bummer OK, so I used

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

On 02:04 Mon 01 May , Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Jeff Rollin wrote: > > I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it > > improves the speed of KDE applications too > > Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' > documented? I cant find an

[gentoo-user] ssmtp.conf security concern

Good afternoon, I solved my problem of a few days ago by adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] AuthPass=PASSWORD to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. This was related to my ISP now requiring SMTP AUTH for mail. But I'm concerned about the security implications of having this in a world-readable file. If this was only n

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

Jeff Rollin wrote: > I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it > improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this CFLAGS 'DG_DISABLE_DEBUG' documented? I cant find any reference to it in man gcc. No usable results came up wh

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

whoops! my badOn 30/04/06, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21:11 Sun 30 Apr , Jeff Rollin wrote:> I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it> improves the speed of KDE applications too"Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed o

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

On 21:11 Sun 30 Apr , Jeff Rollin wrote: > I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it > improves the speed of KDE applications too "Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE="-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG"" -- Join The no

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

wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/4/30, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: > > > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 > > > > I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread > > in an English mailing list. > > I ju

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

I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too-- --Argument against Linux number 6,033: "...So this is like most Linux viruses. You have to download the virus yourself, become

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

Alexander Skwar wrote: > (snip) > > PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML > even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. > Another thing that sucks, is that HTML mails are permitted on this > list. Why not just dump the HTML part (and every other attachment)? > Well I

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

Alexander Skwar wrote: > (snip)_ > > To the others: Is ipv6 still one of the default flags? Has > this bug still not been fixed? > > (snip) Well in default-linux/{alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,ia64,m68k,s390,sh,x86} profiles, its on by default.. I don know for sure that in hardened profile it's turned o

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

Jeff Rollin wrote: > > DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them > smaller (and faster) > I dont think there is any use flags like DG_DISABLE_DEBUG.. As for as debugging symbols goes the use flag 'debug' control them i guess.. And as far as i know on x86 arch it -d

Re: [gentoo-user] modprobe looks in wrong dir

Did you remake the modules when you installed the kernel? Some such as nvidia, alsa require you rerun their installation process. On Sunday April 30 2006 14:18, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > This should be an easy fix -- if you already know! > > The reason many of my modules are not loadin

[gentoo-user] Re: modprobe looks in wrong dir

On Sunday 30 April 2006 20:18, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > This should be an easy fix -- if you already know! > > The reason many of my modules are not loading is > because modprobe is looking in /lib/modules/2.6.12-r6 > and not /lib/modules/2.6.16-r3 which was filled when I > ran make modu

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

Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a blank profile. I also assume a local problem at his side. OP should simply create a new profile and report back. Alexander Skwar PS: I begin to hate

[gentoo-user] modprobe looks in wrong dir

Hi group, This should be an easy fix -- if you already know! The reason many of my modules are not loading is because modprobe is looking in /lib/modules/2.6.12-r6 and not /lib/modules/2.6.16-r3 which was filled when I ran make modules_install. The link to the newer kernel is OK. Yes, I ran mo

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

wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander, > > DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them > smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gno

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

2006/4/30, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander, > > DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them > smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gnome/glib/gtk applicat

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

On 4/30/06, Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen:> I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my> machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and> even can not scroll up and down.Many peple

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

2006/4/30, Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my > machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and > even can not scroll up and down.Many peple ha

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

wu chuanwen wrote: Oh! I know now.I use gmail(i think it is the best e-mail now which can sort you e-mail by topic and looks very good!)and never see my mail from the mail-list in other application. Is this mail OK now ? Yes, that's *VERY* *MUCH* better now. Thanks a lot! Alexander Skwar -- I

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed

On 4/29/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Jolet wrote: > that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll > encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? I thought udev was just userland? What option would I need in the kernel? There

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?

On 4/29/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. This is not a problem. The kernel will use an internal mapping to figure out what the device major and minor number is for /dev/sda1. It does not depe

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

Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my > machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and > even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you > think so? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On 4/29/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE="hal", and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). And also make sure she is a member of the 'plu

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

On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gnome/glib/gtk applications. PS: As Alexander already said, please do not

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

2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >: > Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when > you run > > emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox > > I get this: > [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

Norberto Bensa wrote: > Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,0) Bug in mkinitd. It uses -c (old ascii format) and kernel seems to expect newc (srv4) Everything is working now. Thanks everyone! Regards, Norberto pgpjI6fMsynsj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD

Not sure if you've come up with a solution yet, but if you have a floppy or usb drive, you could do an 'emerge -pv ipw2200' to find out what files it needs, grab them from another system and just place them in '/usr/portage/distfiles'. This should let you install support for ipw2200.HTH,-Hani

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

wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox I get this: [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 [1.5.0.1-r4] USE

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

060430 wu chuanwen wrote: > I think most of us are using firefox now. Do you think it's too slow? > if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox, > my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down. I have this problem with Independent (newspaper), but not generally. I suspect it's caused by hea

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

Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Jeff. On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote:> I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any> trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically i

[gentoo-user] Re: Init Scripts, net, and LinuxAnt DriverLoader

sorry, i accidentally sent that prematurely.  as i was saying, the init scripts fail to set the encryption key and connect to my network.  using iwconfig otoh i am able to set the essid, enc key and etc and connect to the AP of choice. worse, after running the init script the card becomes comple

[gentoo-user] Init Scripts, net, and LinuxAnt DriverLoader

Hi All, I'm having a bit of trouble trying to get the Gentoo net init scripts to play nice with the linuxant driverloader ndiswrapper.  First, yes I have tried (read: struggled) with ndiswrapper a fair bit with no luck...I can only get my card to connect to an unencrypted channel with ndiswrapper

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

2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2I can't use O3 because i got many errors when complied my gentoo .I use O2,-- wcw

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

2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote:>>> 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: >> Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?>> USE="gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic".Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do yo

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

Jeff Rollin wrote: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2 If -O3 REALLY gives a speedup depends heavily on your CPU. You might not get a speedup at all - and, more likely, you might not get a *noticeable* sp

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

Jeff Rollin wrote: Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE="-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG" What's that supposed to do? It doesn't seem to be a valid USE flag. Alexander Skwar PS: Top posts are no good. -- Brian Griffin: Seriously, who buys a novelty fi

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

Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE="-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG"On 30/04/06, Jeff Rollin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2 On 30/04/

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

I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS="-O3", specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wu chuanwen wrote:>>> 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: >> Works fine on mine; what

[gentoo-user] Re: Debugging an ebuild

On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:44, David Corbin wrote: > I would like to debug an ebuild that is not working for me. I've > googled and not found anything terrible useful. Can anyone point me > at a HOWTO or some such? > > When I tried to 'ebuild' a copy the ebuild outside of the > /usr/protage dire

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

wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags? USE="gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic". Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -v

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

wu chuanwen wrote: Can you tell me which version you are using ? mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 PS: Please only send HTML mails, if it is really necessary. Alexander Skwar -- There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail. -- Colm

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

2006/4/30, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote:> I am sorry,i forget the link:> http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread in an Englishmailing list.I just mean to show t

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

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:21 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > (snip) > > > > Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your > > framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the > > radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... > > > >

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

On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: > I am sorry,i forget the link: > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread in an English mailing list. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006/4/30, Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:> wu chuanwen wrote:> >Hi! Everybody!> >I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?>> Not really. >> >In> >my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my fire

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

2006/4/30, wu chuanwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: wu chuanwen wrote:> Hi! Everybody!> I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?Not really.> In> my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck > and even c

[gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. If I use IceWM, typing these characters works fine in OOo. I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and

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

2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote:> Hi! Everybody!> I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?Not really.> In> my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck > and even can not scroll up and down.Works fine here.> M

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

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > wu chuanwen wrote: > >Hi! Everybody! > >I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? > > Not really. > > >In > >my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck > >and even can not

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

2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?USE="gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic".It's OK!Oh god! Just like now ,i just open two tab,it's so slow when i switch between the two tab. On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Two things, AC97 sound and Gnome issues!

2006/4/27, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello all,if there is any one that can help me with the following two issue Iwould be greatful.1.  I am have a error message when booting about snd_via82xx notfound.  FATAL: Module snd_via82xx not found.  is the exact message. Are you  sure your sound m

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

wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down. Works fine here. Many peple have the same situation. Haven

[gentoo-user] Debugging an ebuild

I would like to debug an ebuild that is not working for me. I've googled and not found anything terrible useful. Can anyone point me at a HOWTO or some such? When I tried to 'ebuild' a copy the ebuild outside of the /usr/protage directory, it complains that it "is not in a valid PORTDIR heir

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

Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many pepl

[gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you think so? And how can you solve this problem?-- wcw

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

Martins Steinbergs a gentiment tapote: >> Hi, >> >> Well, It's me again, >> I was satisfied too quickly ! >> After upgrading xorg to xorg-x11-7.0-r1 and getting dri successfully, >> gdm still crashes at reboot (kernel panic). >> I really don't know what to do now :-( >> Any idea ? >> >> Thanks a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

Rohit and Bhavana wrote: >Hi there, > >I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I >burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, >right?] and hoped for the best. > Totally my fault. Should have verified the md5sun before messing two perfectly good media

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect > a RedHat style runlevel system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? > At the mo

[gentoo-user] gthumb - can't save images

Hello! For quite some time now (since at least January 2006; since at least version 2.6.8), I cannot save JPEG images with gthumb (running 2.6.9 from my own overlay, but also with 2.6.8-r2) anymore. When I try to save a JPEG image, a 0 byte file gets created and in the terminal window I get the f

Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now? [FIXED]

On 25/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 05:01 am, Mick wrote: > On 23/04/06, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before you do that try emerge metadata or emerge sync > > Thanks guys. Emerge metadata creates multiple errors (here's an extract):

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing mixer item "Headphone": Regression in Linux from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.15

Mick wrote: On 30/04/06, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the upgrade from Linux 2.6.14.7 to Linux 2.6.15 the mixer item "Headphone" was lost. This is with the driver intel8x0. The biggest problem with this regression is that it makes it impossible to turn off the internal speakers of the De

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing mixer item "Headphone": Regression in Linux from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.15

On 30/04/06, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the upgrade from Linux 2.6.14.7 to Linux 2.6.15 the mixer item "Headphone" was lost. This is with the driver intel8x0. The biggest problem with this regression is that it makes it impossible to turn off the internal speakers of the Dell Inspiron 860

[gentoo-user] Missing mixer item "Headphone": Regression in Linux from 2.6.14.7 to 2.6.15

In the upgrade from Linux 2.6.14.7 to Linux 2.6.15 the mixer item "Headphone" was lost. This is with the driver intel8x0. The biggest problem with this regression is that it makes it impossible to turn off the internal speakers of the Dell Inspiron 8600 and only have sound when something is con

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

Iain Buchanan wrote: > (snip) > > Thanks, that's pretty much what I had. I'm interested in your > framerates though. With glxgears I only get about 130 fps with the > radeon driver, yet I get 2500+ fps with ati-drivers... > > (snip) are u sure of that 2500+ fps.. I think its 250+ fps.. If not i'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 20:47 -0400, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera > > Little basic things like that.

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

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 13:14 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: > >> I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: > >> - - update the xorg to 7.X > >> - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel > >> - - build the DRM for the