How does Gnome affect non-Gnome fonts?

2006-06-10 Thread Peter B. Steiger
Weird discovery tonight. Several people wisely suggested I start launching gnome-settings-daemon as part of my .xinitrc startup, and sure enough that brought all my applications in line with regards to correct icons and correct fonts. I was just doing ctrl-right-click in XTerm to pick a different

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:37 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: > > Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the > > nvidia driver (version 8762). Switching back to the slower nv that comes > > with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts were visibl

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/10/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ahh also and I know this caused an agument in the past but I had an unusual issue with umask script in BLFS. When its added to the profile.d i got a message about group 100 has no id. I suspect this is cause i havent set a users group ye

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
> Hey do you know what package has ifconfig in it ? Net-tools. Another way you can find installed programs in the blfs book is to go to this page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/longindex.html And search for ifconfig. (Watch out, the page is a monster if you have a slow connect

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/10/06, Henry christenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey do you know what package has ifconfig in it ? Net-tools. Another way you can find installed programs in the blfs book is to go to this page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/longindex.html And search for ifconfig. (W

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
> Why does BLFS install Inetutils again ? > > Its installed in the LFS book. Only the clients are installed in LFS. BLFS provides instructions to install the servers as well. -- Randy Ahh yes i see now BLFS doesent pass the --disable-servers option but does mention it in the command expl

Re: Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Randy McMurchy
Henry christenson wrote these words on 06/10/06 10:27 CST: > Why does BLFS install Inetutils again ? > > Its installed in the LFS book. Only the clients are installed in LFS. BLFS provides instructions to install the servers as well. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1

Inetutils

2006-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
I just got a simple question not sure if its sutible for support but here it is. Why does BLFS install Inetutils again ? Its installed in the LFS book. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: [OT] Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/10/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: > And the proprietary ATI drivers won't even start up on Xorg-7.1 due to > the ABI breakage. And I don't use them :) Open-source drivers work just fine with 3D. But for those who have Radeon X1000 or newer, the si

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: killproc -p /var/run/ppp-${1}.pid Oops, should be: killproc -p /var/run/ppp-${1}.pid pppd -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[OT] Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: And the proprietary ATI drivers won't even start up on Xorg-7.1 due to the ABI breakage. And I don't use them :) Open-source drivers work just fine with 3D. But for those who have Radeon X1000 or newer, the situation is worse. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfr

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: Now there is one more thing about the PPPoE connection I would like to setup - I want to have it established at boot time. As far as I know I need to have the following files: 1) /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe: ONBOOT="yes" SERVICE="pppoe" 2) /etc/sysco

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/10/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Indeed, there is an incompatibility between 8xxx nvidia drivers and Xorg 7.1. It can be (reportedly) worked around by adding to xorg.conf: Option "RenderAccel" "no" This is indeed the option that I've read about that fixes the invis

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Angel Tsankov
How can I be sure that I'm using kernel-mode PPPoE in this case? Very easy. 1) "pidof pppoe" should return nothing. 2) "pidof pppd" should return only one process ID, not two IDs. 3) "ls -l /proc/`pidof pppd`/fd" should not reference /dev/pts In the meanwhile I followed the instructions on ht

Re: latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: Anyway, my box uses an nvidia card and for 3d graphics accel I use the nvidia driver (version 8762). Switching back to the slower nv that comes with Xorg7.1, lo and behold, the fonts were visible and wine seems to work fine. Indeed, there is an incompatibility between

latest wine 0.9.14 and BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 [Solution]

2006-06-10 Thread Tasos Drosopoulos
3 days ago I built wine-0.9.14 on a fresh BLFS-SVN-2006-05-28 box after installing fontforge first. The built went fine. However, the fonts on all wine dialog boxes (e.g. winecfg) were invisible. I spent several hours rebuilding, trying out different combinations of freetype / fontforge etc. A

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Angel Tsankov wrote: How can I be sure that I'm using kernel-mode PPPoE in this case? Very easy. 1) "pidof pppoe" should return nothing. 2) "pidof pppd" should return only one process ID, not two IDs. 3) "ls -l /proc/`pidof pppd`/fd" should not reference /dev/pts -- Alexander E. Patrakov --

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Angel Tsankov
I have all of them except for CONFIG_N_HDLC. Can someone tell me where I can find this option? I'm building kernel 2.6.11.12. Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> [*] Non-standard serial port support [*] HDLC line discipline support Thanks, Andy. I followed the instruction in the doc/K