Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:26:04 -0500 DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > DJ Lucas wrote: > > > > > I don't have a link right this second, but do a search for the anyany > > patch for vmware. This should get it installed on your system. You'll > > need net-tools and a copy of the kernel that

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: > > I don't have a link right this second, but do a search for the anyany > patch for vmware. This should get it installed on your system. You'll > need net-tools and a copy of the kernel that is displayed by 'uname > -r' Found i

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > I don't have a link right this second, but do a search for the anyany > patch for vmware. Sorry for the fragmented posts. As you might have guessed, it's not a patch at all. Run the vmware installer first, but do not configure it yet (answer no when prompted by the vmware inst

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > > I don't have a link right this second, but do a search for the anyany > patch for vmware. This should get it installed on your system. You'll > need net-tools and a copy of the kernel that is displayed by 'uname > -r' Found it: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-upda

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread DJ Lucas
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/19/06, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> When installing Vmware (following the hint), I get the following message >> during ./vmware-install.pl : >> >> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your >> running kernel? [/usr

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:11:03 -0700 "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Just a guess, but vmware probably builds a kernel module. It needs to > build the kernel module against whatever kernel you plan on running. > So, you need to keep around the source dir from when you compiled your

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > That's the core X font system at work. It is lovely. Oh good, I feared that I'd aske someone to look at my computer screen within X and have no text to read. It doesn't mat

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread gena-j
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > That's the core X font system at work. It is lovely. Oh good, I feared that I'd aske someone to look at my computer screen within X and have no text to read. It doesn't matter to me what it looks like, longs there is something t

Re: Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. When installing Vmware (following the hint), I get the following message during ./vmware-install.pl : What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /sources/linux-2.6.1

Vmware installation problem

2006-06-19 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. When installing Vmware (following the hint), I get the following message during ./vmware-install.pl : What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /sources/linux-2.6.16.5/include The kernel defined by this directory of heade

Re: LFS does not save bash history on shutdown

2006-06-19 Thread Jason Aeschilman
Matthias B. wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:23:03 -0600 Jason Aeschilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ash history is not saved on shutdown. I have commented out the line "unset HISTFILE" from /etc/profile so now history is saved for root, but it only works when I log out of a terminal. If I rebo

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Same here with xorg-6.9.0. Maybe it's an error in the book. Does anyone get an OTF font dir with xorg-6.9.0? I'm showing that there are OTF fonts installed by font-misc-ethiopic (ignore the share/X11 vs. lib/X11 customization). Maybe this i

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fc-list works after employing the TTF link however, the OTF dir doesn't exist. There's no mention in the book that fonts/OTF only exists under specific circumstances. My font directory is populated like: 100dpi 75dpi CID cyrillic encodings local misc TTF Type1 util

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) That's the core X font system at work. It is lovely. I

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread gena-j
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:32:50PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > You don't need to make those three symbolic links. Because you've > installed xorg into /usr, the binaries will be in /usr/bin, the libs in > /usr/lib (so no need to change /etc/ld.so.conf) and the headers are in > /usr/include.

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I can't say why BLFS insists that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is outside of fontconfig path. fontconfig-2.3.2 already includes that path in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, so one does not need to do anything at all. You've gone to the troubl

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've installed Xorg in the default prefix listed above, run the following commands as the root user: ln -v -s ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 && I don't understand what the target is i.e. the parent of X11R6 I need this link as /usr/bin/X11 currently doesn't exist. l

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread gena-j
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:01:02AM +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote: > > If you don't understand it, then you should try the command and see > the result :) This command shall create "file" /usr/bin/X11, which > shall be a symbolic link and that symbolic link will point to > /usr/bin/../X11R6/bin, whi

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Uwe Kramer wrote: When I do this on my system I see many fonts which show me the euro-sign on the right side but don't show it with altgr-e. I never before had this trouble with kde, maybe I should try reinstalling the whole thing. You should have said from the very beginning that you have a pr

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Andrey Voropaev wrote: Well, I can't say why BLFS insists that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is outside of fontconfig path. fontconfig-2.3.2 already includes that path in the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, so one does not need to do anything at all. Because if one includes /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in the f

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Alessandro Alocci
Alle 12:55, lunedì 19 giugno 2006, Uwe Kramer ha scritto: > > Yes, you're right, > > on Control Center -> System Administration -> Font installer > > if you switch on Administrator mode you should see all the character > > set installed on the system. Then clicking on one you can see on the > > ri

Re: Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Uwe Kramer
Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:02:25 +0200 Von: Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: BLFS Support List Betreff: Re: missing euro-sign in KDE > Alle 00:52, lunedì 19 giugno 2006, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > > On 6/18/06, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Alessandro Alocci
Alle 00:52, lunedì 19 giugno 2006, Dan Nicholson ha scritto: > On 6/18/06, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another little issue, not all characters seems to be able to show the > > euro sign, if I start konsole and select for example Courier 10 Pitch > > I don't see anything pressi

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Alessandro Alocci
Alle 07:50, lunedì 19 giugno 2006, Uwe Kramer ha scritto: > Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 00:42 schrieb Alessandro Alocci: > > You wrote, > > > > > I have a blfs-book-cvs-2006-06-08 system with KDE-3.5.3 and I cannot > > > get the euro-sign anywhere. It works on the text console and with twm, > > > I ca

Re: how to create alternative networking setup?

2006-06-19 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 10:34 +0200, Andrey Voropaev wrote: > Hello! > > I'm almost sure, that there should be the answer to my question > already, but I couldn't find it. Please direct me to it. > > So, I have a laptop. At work I'm connected to LAN via eth0, at home I > connect thru eth1 to WLAN.

Re: how to create alternative networking setup?

2006-06-19 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:34, Andrey Voropaev wrote: > I have a laptop. At work I'm connected to LAN via eth0, at home I > connect thru eth1 to WLAN. Sure enough, at work I use static IP > address and at home I have to use DHCP. Fully automatic service is not so easy: you have to tell your laptop

Re: Getting in a mess with pats - X11 and fonts

2006-06-19 Thread Andrey Voropaev
On 6/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm confused over what the default path is for the xorg installation. Although I removed the comments within my host.def file so that I installed with the prefix of /usr: #define ProjectRoot /usr #define LinkGLToUsrIncl