something better than xvidcap?

2006-05-01 Thread Lupine
I'm trying to make some Video documentation of BLFS, and would like to record video of my desktop. In the past I've used xvidcap: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ However, this project seems dead. Does anyone know of anything better out there? I tried compiling xvidcap from CVS and it's fails to

Re: NSS build errors

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Staub
Jeremy Byron wrote: Can't reproduce this - see below. lfs svn-20060210 (gcc 4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6, binutils-2.16.1) bash 3.1.0(1)-release // Tried this first bash 3.1.17(1)-release (fixes-8 patch) // Tried after upgrading coreutils 5.94 Not sure how to help you d

Re: statically relinking

2006-05-01 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Alberto Hernando wrote: As a part of my transition to LFS, I want to use it too, but there are no suitable packages for me, and they refuse to provide more packages. It isn't possible to relink a dynamically linked executable as a static. And if it were a static you would not have a problem.

Re: statically relinking

2006-05-01 Thread TheOldFellow
Alberto Hernando wrote: As a part of my transition to LFS, I want to use it too, but there are no suitable packages for me, and they refuse to provide more packages. It isn't possible to relink a dynamically linked executable as a static. And if it were a static you would not have a problem.

Re: statically relinking

2006-05-01 Thread Jeremy Byron
Alberto Hernando wrote: > it. I am talking about closed source software. In this case, I have gizmo > (www.gizmoproject,com) working in my debian partition. As a part of my > transition to LFS, I want to use it too, but there are no suitable packages > for me, and they refuse to provide more pac

GNOME 2.12.2 wierd question dialog ...

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew Carson
Hi again ! I don't use GNOME so am not that bothered - but here goes : when Gnome starts up and the deskop appears, a Question window appears. No buttons or text appear inside it, and pressing ENTER or ESC does nothing ! At the same time, the main menus (application, places,

KDE-3.5.2 - Kcontrol - Network Configuration

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew Carson
Hi everyone, Here's a thought in two places ! 1) I'm selecting RedHat Linux 7.2 when promped (works ok) but have'nt tried to change any network settings 2) can we ask kde developers to drop in a BLFS option on the list of distro's that appear when Network Config

Essential KDE3.5.2 kcontrol & menu fixes here ...

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew Carson
Hi everyone, Well after days of trauma with KDE-3.5.2 really annonying me (and thats putting v.nicely!) I've found a fix. Problem #1: When you start KDE, the typical KDE menu applets never appear ! Problem #2: Kcontrol is busted - nothing appears in the left hand menu & r

statically relinking

2006-05-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I don't know if this can be off-topic here. If it is, sorry. I want to know if it's possible to relink an executable without recompiling it. I am talking about closed source software. In this case, I have gizmo (www.gizmoproject,com) working in my debian partition. As a part of my transitio

Re: kde segfaults

2006-05-01 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Domingo, 30 de Abril de 2006 16:49, Ken Moffat escribió: > Your original posting implied that part of kde suddenly started > segfaulting, when it had been ok for some time. Hi again. Well, I can say that it works again. But I can't say what's going wrong. At first, as I said, kdeinit seemed b

Re: NSS build errors

2006-05-01 Thread Jeremy Byron
Chris Staub wrote: > The nss package seems to build successfully on my system, but I also > always get a lot of output that looks like this while it builds: Can't reproduce this - see below. lfs svn-20060210 (gcc 4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6, binutils-2.16.1) bash 3.1.0(1)-release