Re: FC6 (x86_64) as a host system

2007-03-14 Thread Fix
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-December/058579.html Oh, thanks for pointing me to the lfs-dev archives. Searching through the site by several keywords give me no messages from there. Now I open March 2007 archives and first thread I see is a "Breakage with bleeding edge host

Re: MTP based devices and LFS

2007-03-14 Thread Hoiho
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:34, john q public wrote: > I've just bought a Creative Zen Microphoto and Im losing my mind! Been there Done that!!! > > thanks Did you look at this? http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/ I built it (on SUSE) distro to support a Creative Vision M the web site saya that the Mic

Re: FC6 (x86_64) as a host system

2007-03-14 Thread Shawn
On March 14, 2007, Fix wrote: > Hello, friends! > > Recently I had successfully built & boot the LFS 6.2 system. > > I had encountered some issues building the LFS's toolchain from my > host Fedora Core 6 (x86_64) system, so I created a partition, > mounted it as /mnt/lfs, copied sources there from

FC6 (x86_64) as a host system

2007-03-14 Thread Fix
Hello, friends! Recently I had successfully built & boot the LFS 6.2 system. I had encountered some issues building the LFS's toolchain from my host Fedora Core 6 (x86_64) system, so I created a partition, mounted it as /mnt/lfs, copied sources there from the LFS 6.2 LiveCD and chrooted to /mnt/l

Re: another Xorg-7.1 question

2007-03-14 Thread Arden
On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Arden wrote: > I found I needed to upgrade X so I went and installed xorg-7.1. > Startx works fine but I can't get fluxbox to work. It aborts with: > Failed to read: session.tab > Failed to read: session.pad > about 14 lines like this. I only have an .xinitrc file t

Re: another Xorg-7.1 question

2007-03-14 Thread Arden
On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: 2007/3/14, Arden wrote: >> Also what is /etc/x for? >> >> > I don't have a file or directory called /etc/x. So maybe you made some > error in the build instructions? Then my guess is when installing xorg-server with more_control_and_pack

Re: LFS 6.2 warns about 2.6.17 or newer kernels

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/14/07, Wilco Beekhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [sarcasm] > I can remember the good old days with static device nodes where /dev > was the last thing that could cause a problem when booting a new > kernel... > [/sarcasm] No one is being stopped from using static devices. Bruce even w

Re: LFS 6.2 warns about 2.6.17 or newer kernels

2007-03-14 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/3/14, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/13/07, Lauri Kasanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It tells I shouldn't use anything but latest 2.6.16 'cause of potential > > incompatibility with the bootscripts. I'm now running 2.6.16.43. I'd like > > to upgrade to 2.6.20.3 'cause the driv

Re: xpdf is not installed [solved]

2007-03-14 Thread Andreas
Ag. Hatzimanikas schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 14, at 11:38 Andreas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i tried to install xpdf. everything was fine: patch ... ; ./configure >> ... ; make ; su -c"make install" >> but there is no xpdf in /usr/bin. the pdfinfo and co are there. Does >> anyone know this problem? >> >

Re: another Xorg-7.1 question

2007-03-14 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2007/3/14, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I found I needed to upgrade X so I went and installed xorg-7.1. > Startx works fine but I can't get fluxbox to work. It aborts with: > Failed to read session.tab > Failed to read session.pad > about 14 lines like this. > > I tried rebuilding fluxbox but the s

another Xorg-7.1 question

2007-03-14 Thread Arden
I found I needed to upgrade X so I went and installed xorg-7.1. Startx works fine but I can't get fluxbox to work. It aborts with: Failed to read session.tab Failed to read session.pad about 14 lines like this. I tried rebuilding fluxbox but the same happens. Any suggestions on where to look? No

Re: LFS 6.2 warns about 2.6.17 or newer kernels

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/13/07, Lauri Kasanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It tells I shouldn't use anything but latest 2.6.16 'cause of potential > incompatibility with the bootscripts. I'm now running 2.6.16.43. I'd like to > upgrade to 2.6.20.3 'cause the driver for my usb dvb stick (Artec T14) was > included to

Re: udev as tmpfs

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/14/07, Duane Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is for the LFS list or BLFS list. > Since mounting udev as a tmpfs is not covered in LFS, I will assume it is > appropriate to ask here. Udev isn't a partition/filesystem/etc., just a set of utilities. I think you mean /dev.

udev as tmpfs

2007-03-14 Thread Duane Cox
I'm not sure if this is for the LFS list or BLFS list. Since mounting udev as a tmpfs is not covered in LFS, I will assume it is appropriate to ask here. I have a functioning LFS build using the current 6.2 book. I didn't see any hints about this topic either. What process needs to be involved

Re: Xorg 7.1: problem with startx

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/13/07, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried out many things yesterday and found the solution in the man page > of xinit: > startx simply uses xinitrc which reads ~/.xinitrc. I had not installed > xterm so far but in some cases xinit falles back to an compile time > standard an tries t

Re: xpdf is not installed

2007-03-14 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Mar 14, at 11:38 Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > i tried to install xpdf. everything was fine: patch ... ; ./configure > ... ; make ; su -c"make install" > but there is no xpdf in /usr/bin. the pdfinfo and co are there. Does > anyone know this problem? > Make sure you have lesstif installed f

xpdf is not installed

2007-03-14 Thread Andreas
Hi, i tried to install xpdf. everything was fine: patch ... ; ./configure ... ; make ; su -c"make install" but there is no xpdf in /usr/bin. the pdfinfo and co are there. Does anyone know this problem? andreas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: php and sql [slightly OT]

2007-03-14 Thread Alan Lord
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 20:47, Alan Lord wrote: > >> Yes there are quite a few differences between Postgresql and MySQL in >> syntax, SQL implementation (PGSQL is fully ACID compliant whereas MySQL >> is apparently not) > > MySQL is actually ACID compliant, but only if yo

Re: LFS 6.2 warns about 2.6.17 or newer kernels

2007-03-14 Thread Zsolt Udvari
Hello! My 2.6.17.8 kernel works fine in LFS 6.2 (the gcc version is 4.1.1). I don't have any problem with bootscripts. 2007/3/14, Lauri Kasanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It tells I shouldn't use anything but latest 2.6.16 'cause of potential > incompatibility with the bootscripts. I'm now running 2