Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > > On 12/23/2013 05:27 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> >> On Dec 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Judging from LFS, many people skip things like the preface. I don't >>> know how many times users have run into problems because they didn't >>> read the preface and run the host requirements script. >> > I would like to think that those who actually completed and booted into > their LFS system did (and still do) RTFM.
But experience on -support does not back that up. >> I also do note that in LFS, in places where the LFS variable needs to >> be set, it is checked a few times in a note. >> >> Although, I think it'd be a pain to add that to each xorg page. >> >> NOTE: Make sure XORG_PREFIX and XORG_CONFIG is set. If it isn't please >> go to this page and set it before continuing. > Although I did not encounter this issue, I understand completely where > you are coming from, William. One of the first things I did was add a > little hack to my boot to give me 11 terminals, and messages sent to > tty12. That said, I've had up to 8 terms going following dependencies > (and a lot of duckduckgo/google). > > Judging from my own experience (1st time LFS/BLFS'er (and list poster)), > there are a lot of pitfalls along the journey (I'm probably lucky to > still have any hair left!). My preference to solve this problem would > be to add these variables in the sample /etc/profile file given in BLFS > chapter 3. /etc/profile.d is the proper place. The Intro to Xorg creates /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh. If that's used, it should take care of all the Xorg issues. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
