Re: Evince/GGV

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: --with-gs-aa-params="-sDEVICE=x11alpha -dNOPLATFONTS -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4": Slower CPUs may not handle the default -dDOINTERPOLATE parameter for Ghostscript well. Removal of -dDOINTERPOLATE would reintrioduce the bug. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://

Re: Evince/GGV

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: But, in the bug report you say that older machines may not handle -dDOINTERPOLATE well for large bitmap files. In the bug, I reported a 2x slowdown. However, 1) it happens only on huge bitmaps that are uncommon 2) owners of slow machines won't build LFS 3) Your --with-gs-

Re: Evince/GGV

2006-02-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/12/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Compile Evince 0.5.0. It has this bug fixed. Just for the reference: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319049 If I understand correctly from looking at evince-0.5.0 configure, the default is now: -sDEVICE=x11alpha -dNOPLAT

Re: Evince/GGV

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, This is mostly directed to Alexander, as he has provided input on this very subject in the past, and seems to have a real good handle on it. Anybody else can, of course, comment or provide input as well. Seems I remember that we left GGV in the book because it does

Re: Some updates to the introductory chapters of the book

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Chris Staub wrote these words on 02/07/06 21:39 CST: Submitting some changes to the text at the beginning of the BLFS book... I applied and committed your patch, Chris. I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of some minor changes. Thanks for sending it in. The change

Re: nfs-utils-patch

2006-02-12 Thread Joe Ciccone
Ivor Hewitt wrote: >Hi, >Building nfs-utils on an x86_64, gcc4.0.2 machine I needed the following small >patch. > > This patch is already in the repo, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-1.0.7-gcc4-1.patch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-d

nfs-utils-patch

2006-02-12 Thread Ivor Hewitt
Hi, Building nfs-utils on an x86_64, gcc4.0.2 machine I needed the following small patch. Regards, Ivor. --- support/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c.old 2004-10-19 01:23:05.0 +0100 +++ support/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c 2006-02-13 00:22:32.0 + @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ r

Evince/GGV

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, This is mostly directed to Alexander, as he has provided input on this very subject in the past, and seems to have a real good handle on it. Anybody else can, of course, comment or provide input as well. Seems I remember that we left GGV in the book because it does a better job at renderi

Re: Some updates to the introductory chapters of the book

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 02/07/06 21:39 CST: > Submitting some changes to the text at the beginning of the BLFS book... I applied and committed your patch, Chris. I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of some minor changes. Thanks for sending it in. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version

Re: DivX Location Update

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Joe Ciccone wrote these words on 02/12/06 15:57 CST: > I said I would test it as soon as I finished building packages. I > encoded a video on my windows machine and played it back on my pII > 366Mhz laptop in totem and mplayer and it didn't skip one bit and looked > normal. Only thing is that it

Re: DivX Location Update

2006-02-12 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: >Joe, did you try the new codec yet? > I said I would test it as soon as I finished building packages. I encoded a video on my windows machine and played it back on my pII 366Mhz laptop in totem and mplayer and it didn't skip one bit and looked normal. -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: Trac Ticket System vs. Bugzilla

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/12/06 11:18 CST: 2. Bugzilla, functionality-wise seems to be better. f) (just noticed) In a previous entry I enumerated some items as 1. 2. 3. ... Later in the entry I referenced one of the enumerated items as #2. Unknow

Re: Trac Ticket System vs. Bugzilla

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/12/06 11:18 CST: > 2. Bugzilla, functionality-wise seems to be better. f) (just noticed) In a previous entry I enumerated some items as 1. 2. 3. ... Later in the entry I referenced one of the enumerated items as #2. Unknowingly, and without any i

Trac Ticket System vs. Bugzilla

2006-02-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Now that I've actually *used* the Trac Ticket system, I feel I can now provide comment as to its functionality. I never did provide comments about functionality before, as I had not used it, I only offered opinion on the reasons for changing and the method used to implement Trac. I don't

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:30:16AM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > However, I am not sure that this solution is indeed optimal. Reason: Bug > 1648 is open for three months, this probably means that no editors use > Mutt, and they are happy enough to ignore its brokenness. There is no >

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Clemens Haupt
On Sunday 12 February 2006 09:06, you wrote: >Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I think your observation is correct. Right now, we have mutt, pine, >> and slrn. Perhaps we should drop these packages and just mention >> them in the section "Other Mail and News Programs." > >+1 to "mention mutt, pine, tin and

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Right now, we have mutt, pine, and slrn. Perhaps we should drop these packages and just mention them in the section "Other Mail and News Programs." OTOH, I have used nail on occasion, but certainly not regularly. It is most useful in sending messages

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Ag Hatzim
Bruce Dubbs([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:50:19AM -0600: > > I think your observation is correct. Right now, we have mutt, pine, and > slrn. Perhaps we should drop these packages and just mention them in > the section "Other Mail and News Programs." > > OTOH, I have used nail on oc

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was going to report two issues in the current BLFS, but when expanding > OTOH, I have used nail on occasion, but certainly not regularly. It is > most useful in sending messages from scripts, so that package should stay. > > Oth

Re: Does anybody use text mail/news clients?

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think your observation is correct. Right now, we have mutt, pine, and slrn. Perhaps we should drop these packages and just mention them in the section "Other Mail and News Programs." +1 to "mention mutt, pine, tin and slrn in that section instead of giving explicit inst