Re: Video via web browsers

2007-07-09 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 07:19 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: I use totem with the xine backend. The 2.18 version has some bugs in it, but otherwise it works pretty well. I'm thinking of transitioning to the gstreamer backend, but I like DVDs and they basically don't work

Re: Video via web browsers

2007-07-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 17:51 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I have been using mplayerplug-in http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ to play the occasional video in my browser, but it causes seamonkey to occasionally freeze requiring a kill/restart. This behavior only happens after a video of some

Re: ati drivers in x.org-7.2

2007-06-19 Thread Jürg Billeter
official installer. These instructions (+ libGL symlink) work here: http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/fglrx.xml Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: libart_lgpl 2.3.19 + KDE 3.5.6 - compilation failure

2007-05-11 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2007-05-11 at 16:09 +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote: Hello. I ran into a problem when compiling the BLFS-devel selection lately: If I install libart_lgpl-2.3.19, my compiles of kdelibs+kdegraphics (3.5.6) fail due to some art_* not defined messages (Unfortunately I

Re: D-Bus/HAL

2007-04-21 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2007-04-20 at 21:00 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It still seems weird. There does not seem to be much functional overlap between expat and libxml2. expat: The Expat XML Parser libxml2: The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome Not much overlap? Jürg --

Re: Cups-1.2.10

2007-04-09 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 00:48 +0200, Bernd Pol wrote: Bruce Dubbs schrieb am 08.04.2007 20:06: Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Currently, the book has CUPS-1.2.7. 1.2.10 is the current version. However, the current version fails the test suite miserably. It is a known bug, and fixed in

Re: GIMP

2007-04-09 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Son, 2007-04-08 at 20:30 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: However, if what you are saying is that the GIMP will use the extended Gutenprint plugin, then all would be well, however, this is way, way, different than the book says. I've replaced the gimp-print plug-in with the gutenprint-gimp

Re: PAM ConsoleHelper

2007-01-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Son, 2007-01-14 at 07:50 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 1/14/07, Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This announcement might be interesting. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.hal/6957 Yeah, all the *Kits look pretty cool. Jürg, have you used PolicyKit or ConsoleKit

Re: Gnome Screensaver

2006-07-04 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Die, 2006-07-04 at 10:35 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Juerg Billeter wrote these words on 07/04/06 01:18 CST: Hm, I've just noticed that BLFS doesn't mention to setuid root unix_chkpwd of Linux-PAM, doesn't that mean that PAM doesn't work for non-root applications when using pam_unix?

Re: libdrm autoreconf breaks shared library

2006-05-20 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2006-05-19 at 21:05 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: I don't know if 2.0.1 is compatible with current Xorg or intended for 7.1. [...] I didn't see any problematic change in the diff (alpha stuff was just a comment removal) and I'm using libdrm 2.0.1 with xorg-server 1.0.x here on x86 and x86_64

Re: libpng-1.2.9

2006-04-15 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2006-04-14 at 19:19 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: A new version of libpng was released today and there are some changes I'd like to throw out on the table for discussion. Here are summarized topics. [...] 6. There are no API changes to speak of. This release is mostly just bug-fixes,

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 17:56 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole discussion (this evenings) is centered around how Andy is bypassing HAL and *what* process is communicating to *what* userspace application to do the auto-mounting. I

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 21:26 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Not sure what do about this HAL/D-Bus thing. Best I can tell GNOME 2.14.0 wants the bleeding edge HAL/D-Bus. Gnome-VFS wants HAL-0.5.7. It's only an optional dependency. Gnome-VFS and Gnome-2.14 works fine

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Sam, 2006-04-08 at 14:21 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: gnome-mount --text --no-ui --device /dev/sda1 gnome-mount 0.4 ** (gnome-mount:18819): WARNING **: Mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_9a5b205f_e80d_49ec_94c2_82798b88be08 org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied : A

Re: D-Bus/HAL (another round of misery...or is it fun?)

2006-04-05 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Die, 2006-04-04 at 19:09 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I'd like input from anyone that has experience with newer versions of D-Bus and HAL (Jürg, you listening? :-) ) and how things have gone with packages building/working against the new API/ABI. Currently in the book is

Re: Wireless update (long)

2006-04-02 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Son, 2006-04-02 at 03:57 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I appreciate the info, but I'm now trying to get the WPA encryption working. I checked out the card/access point connection in another OS and it works fine... [...] Any ideas would be appreciated. As mentioned before, you need something

Re: Wireless and accompanying packages

2006-03-30 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-03-30 at 23:27 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I have downloaded wireless-tools, sysfsutils, and pcmciautls and installed them. Here are some of the issues I've solved: wireless-tools needs a patch to compile with gcc-4. I was able to make the required changes and fixed the warnings

Re: Wireless

2006-03-24 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-03-23 at 22:48 -0500, Chris Staub wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: In reviewing BLFS, one area that is missing is wireless support. I'm not sure where to start with this. My first question is Has anyone built the necessary packages to implement wireless communication on a BLFS

Re: [Fwd: Cracklib and PAM]

2006-03-23 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-03-23 at 14:24 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: There has been a couple folks wonder why one would want to install Pam, but not CrackLib, on a system. So far, the only answers given don't touch on the the question of why, but instead simply mention that one has nothing to do with the

Re: NSS again (this time a real issue)

2006-02-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
/xmlsec1/xmlsec1-1.2.9-separate_nspr_nss.patch.bz2 taken from Fedora -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: NSS again (this time a real issue)

2006-02-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
the cause instead of correcting the symptom. As I mentioned before, it may be more convenient not to remove and this may be the right way for BLFS but that doesn't mean that this is the right way for upstream or distros. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: OOo-2.0.1, Xorg 7.0, Firefox-1.5 and System NSS/NSPR (Long)

2006-02-08 Thread Jürg Billeter
after patching configure.in. Call autoconf in the config_office directory. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xorg X11R7.0

2005-12-27 Thread Jürg Billeter
no reason to isolate it at all. It feels more like an integral part of the sytem when installed in /usr and I like that. I only use /opt for binary packages which can't be easily integrated into the /usr hierarchy in a nice way. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: XFCE version

2005-12-14 Thread Jürg Billeter
but important change in one small part is just ridiculously time-consuming. It's also a huge barrier for new developers, of course. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: FreeType2 Patent Violation?

2005-11-27 Thread Jürg Billeter
-bci.patch?rev=1.1view=auto Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: ROX (was: Re: Request to XFree86 users)

2005-10-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
gains some official status (i.e., at least a branch in the official SVN repository). Would be nice to get your UTF-8 book official or even merged. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: GTK+ deps

2005-10-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
dependencies can be nasty, especially when dependencies of dependencies change... Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GTK+ deps

2005-10-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:04 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Jürg Billeter wrote these words on 10/17/05 08:35 CST: gtk+-2.x explicitly checks for at least glib-2.0, atk, pango and cairo. And IMO these should all be added explicitly as required deps to the BLFS page as hidden dependencies can

Re: D-BUS/HAL Woes

2005-09-29 Thread Jürg Billeter
the device. Does the icon in 'Computer' show up upon inserting the device or is it there all the time? And if I understand you correctly, there is no fstab entry for the device - neither written by fstab-sync nor manually, right? Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: D-BUS-0.50

2005-09-27 Thread Jürg Billeter
managers. 6. The bootscript is started in run-levels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Because D-BUS is mainly designed for same-machine event messaging, I feel that it is not dependent on networking. Does this sound right? Yes, it doesn't depend on networking, only on unix sockets for IPC. Regards, Jürg -- Jürg

Re: D-BUS-0.50

2005-09-27 Thread Jürg Billeter
in (fusesmb $mountpoint). The session part of PAM is ideal for this IMHO. I don't know how pam_script exactly works but you must keep in mind that dbus-launch needs to pass envirionment variables to the whole graphical session, it can't be started completely separately. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL

Re: GNOME-2.12/GTK+-2.8/Cairo/libpixman

2005-08-22 Thread Jürg Billeter
, but there is no stable tarball of cairo yet. Workaround for that is in cairo for some time (since June, 20) and the only real fix would be to use Xorg 6.9/7.0 resp. patch Xorg 6.8.2 as the workaround has performance issues. Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: ALSA - restoring volumes

2005-08-18 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Mit, 2005-08-17 at 23:48 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Jürg Billeter wrote: I haven't read the whole thread but it seems that you have the problem that dev.d scripts don't get executed anymore with current udev versions, right? If that's the problem you should use udev_run_devd. /etc/dev.d

Re: ALSA - restoring volumes

2005-08-18 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2005-08-18 at 10:27 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jürg Billeter wrote: udev rules can/should be extended for specific devices, e.g. KERNEL==controlC[0-9]*, RUN+=/usr/lib/alsa.hotplug This brings up a question that was asked of me privately. Why are we using udev/hotplug for alsa

Re: ALSA - restoring volumes

2005-08-17 Thread Jürg Billeter
, right? If that's the problem you should use udev_run_devd. /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d are deprecated and aren't called by default anymore, that's all explained in the RELEASE-NOTES (udev 059 section). Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs

Re: [RFC] Multiple ghostscript packages

2005-08-15 Thread Jürg Billeter
=1000 CoFinemet_JAP.pdf ESP Ghostscript 7.07 passes this fine. GPL Ghostscript 8.01 segfaults. Test results for other Ghostscripts are welcome. FYI: ESP Ghostscript 8.15rc3 passes this fine, too Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: pkg-config-0.18.1

2005-07-06 Thread Jürg Billeter
and will be at Debconf, so there may be some delay until an official upstream response/fix. I'd even pass --with-pc-path=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig as pkg-config 0.18 did by default. And no symlink, that just confuses more people IMO. Regards, Jürg -- Jürg Billeter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pkg-config-0.17

2005-06-05 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Son, 2005-06-05 at 14:42 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: Hey guys, just a note to make ya'll aware of something that I ran across with OOo. pkg-config as of .17 does not include implicit dependenciesIOW, 'PKGCONFIG_MODULES=gtk-2.0' does not imply glib-2.0 by default. This behaviour can be

Re: Wording on SAMBA page

2005-06-04 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Sam, 2005-06-04 at 22:51 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The values in this example specify that the computer belongs to a Windows workgroup named MYGROUP, uses the cp850 character set on the wire when talking to MS-DOS and MS Windows 9x, and that the filenames are stored in the