Re: transcode fails

2008-04-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Le Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:10:16 +0600 "Alexander E. Patrakov" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: >> >>> I encountered this error while compiling transcode : >> Could you please explain why you

Re: transcode fails

2008-04-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
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Re: Running firefox as root once no longer necessary

2008-03-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
egchrome So the book should be updated. The fact that one can't automate Firefox build using only the book's instructions is a bug. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xfdesktop from CBLFS

2008-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
s workarounds, and cannot be maintained in a good shape in the book. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xfdesktop from CBLFS

2008-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
o be functional on the official LFS LiveCD, even for non-multilib x86-64. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Stable LFS LiveCD 6.3-r2160 released

2007-12-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
yasr.sourceforge.net/) 2) maybe stop providing accessibility on the console (and note that Fedora 8 doesn't provide console screen readers at all), default to starting X, and use one of GNOME-based screen readers. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: Problem with iconv ?

2007-12-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Ken Moffat wrote: > on all my other builds I use UTF-8 for manpages. How? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Xorg-7.2 and NLS

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
stall it, verify that /usr/share/fonts is mentioned somewhere under /etc/fonts, and read the "Setting up Fonts" section on the "X Window System Components" page. BTW, posting 7z attachments to linux lists is considered extremely rude. Plain text attachments should be sent un

Re: Xorg-7.2 and NLS

2007-12-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
he output of "fc-match Monospace" command) to the list, or try to debug the issue with me privately (Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED], VoIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED], use the free 3CX phone from http://www.3cx.com/VOIP/voip-phone.html if you have only Windows). -- Alexander E. Patrakov --

Re: Xorg-7.2 and NLS

2007-12-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
inal emulators (possibly except recently-added rxvt-unicode) to use Xft fonts. Unfortunately, scalable fonts that come with Xorg have no Cyrillic glyphs. For this reason, the book relies on third-party fonts to cover national alphabets. Thus, you should install DejaVu fonts for Cyrillic glyphs

Re: Xorg-7.2 and NLS

2007-12-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
t of applications that display squares 4) the list of installed fonts. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS LiveCD 6.3-r2145 released

2007-11-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
long boot command lines blindly in (unfamiliar to some of them) US English keyboard layout. -- Alexander E. Patrakov P.S. I am really disappointed that I still have to patch jhalfs manually instead of just updating it, even though the issue has been reported (with patch!) 3 weeks ago: http

Re: Pseudo TTy's deprecated

2007-11-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
/dev/pts). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: wvstreams configure fails with "openssl>=0.9.7 required"

2007-10-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
, > dial-up support probably should be removed from the book. Well, I am always for removing unsupportable parts of the book. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: X over SSH not working?

2007-09-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
eaded "Error: Can't open display:". sshd hard-codes the path to the "xauth" command, and defaults to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. Rebuilding it after Xorg should help. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: howto create LFS livecd

2007-09-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
r to set up. BTW, this question is more suitable for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. And please post the errors from the latest LFS LiveCD (r2052 or self-built from SVN trunk) - they are bugs. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.li

Re: howto create LFS livecd

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
file. This is a wrong HOWTO. It is about making changes to the already-existing official LiveCD, not about creating your own. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Older system, older network cards, which one is better

2007-09-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
6 MHz with 128 MB of RAM" machines, "3COM 3C905B" and "Intel Pro 100" cards behave approximately identically, and are both slower than a cheap Realtek 8139 card. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
xorg-7.3 has a configure option for this). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Missing memory?

2007-09-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Simon Geard wrote: > However, booted into Linux, more than half of it isn't being seen. 'top' > reports 906740k, which is also the figure listed in /proc/meminfo. You have to configure the kernel with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
; and I can't seem to compile anything needing perl anymore! Ack, my > lfs is falling apart (or I'm just really good at breaking it hehe)! Starting from scratch again is always an option. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Also check if merely removing /etc/fonts/conf.d improves the situation. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lso check if merely removing /etc/fonts/conf.d improves the situation. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ntconfig"). 2) The output of "fc-list". 3) Tar up the contents of /etc/fonts and attach. 4) Attach xorg.conf. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Martin McCourt wrote: > I followed the advisories of Alexander and Ken I did my suggestion without actually looking at your screenshots. The problem is that your fontconfig uses bitmap fonts (or toolkits use core X fonts instead of those provided by fontconfig) instead of nice TrueType outlines

Re: Fonts look bad in X.org

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ter solution is to specify the display size in Xorg.conf. This way, it will apply to all programs, not only Xft. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

The first CD with LFS-6.3

2007-09-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
because of the complicated initramfs setup on the CD that plays dirty tricks with the module loading order. Please send your feedback to the livecd list. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

New LiveCD for testing: r2014

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
. Send reports what works (even if you don't find any bugs - simply for me to see what users test and what they don't) and what doesn't. Untested packages are likely to be removed in the future. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Good video editor for linux?

2007-06-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
after each change. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Trouble with the bootscript called console (/etc/init.d/console)

2007-06-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Which driver? Could you please try without framebuffer and report whether the console works correctly? Many framebuffer drivers are just broken beyond repair when a font change occurs. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: links graphics browers fonts look horrible

2007-06-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
install Firefox or Konqueror. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: BRLTTY on LFS LiveCD

2007-06-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: > If I do not get a reply within 10 days, brltty (and, thus, support for > blind users) will be removed from the CD. r1908 contains a workaround, but better solutions (and testers) are still welcome. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

BRLTTY on LFS LiveCD

2007-06-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
a braille device in order to reproduce the bug. If I do not get a reply within 10 days, brltty (and, thus, support for blind users) will be removed from the CD. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/

Re: Flash-9 with GLIB-2 Problem

2007-05-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
in BLFS GLIB-2.12.x instructions: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Not surprisingly, if I set G_FILENAME_ENCODING to UTF-8 everything quiets > down. but if you save a file from any GTK2 app and then try to "ls" it in the terminal, the file name will be shown incorrectly if it contain

Re: Kernel 2.6.21 BUG?

2007-05-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
s now, because the issue is probably already fixed. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Kernel 2.6.21 BUG?

2007-05-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 5. Call Trace: > [] sis900_interrupt+0x625/0x6a0 [sis900] Should be fixed by this patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc5a144991ba803bc8afded105c9db1dea0e57ab -- Alexander E. Patrakov --

Re: Kernel 2.6.21 BUG?

2007-04-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Alex: > > BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:546 smp_call_function() > [] smp_call_function+0x125/0x130 > [<>] ... (Twenty lines of this nature) > [] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x240 > > > - Alexander E. Patrakov: > 1) T

Re: Kernel 2.6.21 BUG?

2007-04-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, including 20 lines that you snipped -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Xfce 4.4

2007-04-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
uffering repainting issues that made the desktop unusable. Running > this fixed the problems: > > dbus-uuidgen --ensure > > Read 'man dbus-uuidgen' for details. Thanks for your findings. Unfortunately, I was very busy with my scientific work until today in order to updat

Re: Xvnc and GLX

2007-03-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
py. Nobody else does this (even Debian, using a private copy of any library without very significant reason is a release-critical bug). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPP and module autoloading

2007-03-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
t;. So /etc/sysconfig/modules is the correct solution for a non-hardware "pppoe" module. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Setup of serial port

2007-01-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
s have "non-standard" interrupts : 11 and 10. Since I need > ttyS3 for the touchscreen this is rather important. > How can I set those ? I think this belongs to the udev rules but I don't > know how to do this. Any pointers ? udev is completely irrelevant here. Look for the &qu

LFS LiveCD 6.2-5 released

2007-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
usual places mentioned at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html Please mail any comments to the LFS LiveCD mailing list. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Bootable CD with X-Window

2007-01-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ably as modules). Then, you want to build all the drivers for > X. Those are the xf86-{input,video}-* packages. Some of them you could > probably ignore, but it doesn't hurt to have them installed. It does hurt. Sun-specific modules such as xf86-video-sunleo make "X -configure&quo

Re: XFCE in non-english language (french for example) [solved]

2007-01-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
didn't read the book correctlly. The correct variable is LANG, not LC_LANG, and it has to be in either /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xorg7.1 graphics chip errors

2007-01-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
oaded instead. no, your chip is new and has to use the i915 kernel module. Look at character devices -> DRM. If i915 is not there, you have to build a new kernel (e.g. 2.6.19.2). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xkeyboard-config

2007-01-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
VS, > it has been removed from Makefile.am so I think it is safe to delete > it with > > sed -i '/^install-data-hook/s/install-compiled//' Makefile.in > > before running configure. Even better fix is to add --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb --with-xkb-output=/var

Re: Can't get kbd to behave the right way !!

2007-01-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ode: exec /bin/bash /dev/tty1 2>&1 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Can't get kbd to behave the right way !!

2007-01-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
can't help. There was a bug in xorg-server-1.1.0 (fixed in 1.1.1) that sometimes prevented Ctrl+Alt+Fn from working, but what you describe doesn't look like this bug. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: help with firmware loading problems with DBVT device

2006-12-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lux-integ wrote: > However the boot is ugly. Updating LFS bootscripts may help. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: help with firmware loading problems with DBVT device

2006-12-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lux-integ wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# ls -l /lib/udev >> ls: /lib/udev: No such file or directory Here is your problem. Reinstall udev and its rules as the book says (i.e.: update), and the problem will go away. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

LFS LiveCDs 6.2-4 and 6.3-pre1 released

2006-12-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
comments to the LFS LiveCD mailing list. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Fn in X

2006-12-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
tion in the K menu (I'm using kde-3.5.5), but for some reason, I can't use > the keyboard. I don't know if this is kde related, but already in the kdm > screen I can't change either. I guess that some defalt behaviour has changed, > or there is a bug in x.org-7.1. &

[ANNOUNCE] LFS LiveCD x86-6.2-3

2006-09-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
kernel If you have not hit any of the bugs mentioned above, and don't need new features, there is no reason to upgrade. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[ANNOUNCE] LFS LiveCD x86-6.2-2

2006-08-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
for pre-release testing of the 64-bit kernel. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LFS LiveCD x86-6.2-1 - bug

2006-08-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
a week together with fixes for other reported bugs, if any. For now, British users should just edit the "Console keymap" and "X keymap" fields on the console configuration screen. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http:

[ANNOUNCE] LFS LiveCD x86-6.2-1

2006-08-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
page for a list of mirrors: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html (it still lists the 6.1.1-4 as a stable version, which is wrong, but I can't fix the page) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratc

Re: Xorg 7.1 ugly fonts

2006-06-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
name. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ave a problem with _typing_, not _displaying_ the Euro character. For debugging, please post the "InputDevice" section from your xorg.conf that corresponds to your keyboard. Note that layout names did change since the 6.8.2 version, so you may want to replace the "XkbLayout".

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

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
paper. 2) Add a new user, log in, start Konsole. Russian shows as double-width characters because of the "Courier 10 pitch" font and bad substitution. Both problems can be avoided by not including /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in the font path for fontconfig. -- Alexander

Re: missing euro-sign in KDE

2006-06-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
x27;t contain that sign (then install more TrueType fonts). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Does establishing a PPPoE connection create an interface?

2006-06-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ssuming that you have no other ppp connections). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lt is correct, so you have nothing to worry about. If you really want to know everythig about packet headers, try sniffing the traffic on eth0 with WireShark (formerly known as Ethereal) and googling for unknown words you see on the screen, plus the word "RFC". -- Alexander E. Pa

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
53 to the very top. If this doesn't help, I give up. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ntire output. But if that doesn't show the problem, I give up. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
t; message: I need the output of "pppd call pppoe dryrun" in order to debug this. Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 Hope this helps. No, that doesn't. pppd call pppoe dryrun eth0 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linux

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ss concentrator name rp_pppoe_verbose : Be verbose about discovered access concentrators These options seem to work. Where are they documented? I got it directly from the source code :( but I guess that they are documented somewhere in the rp-pppoe package. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://

Re: idiots guide to cups and samba?

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Where is the XP Home guide? Why not do it _without_ samba? That's much easier, and already documented at: http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2005-September/056770.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ose : Be verbose about discovered access concentrators It seems that /etc/ppp/ip-up does not get called; how do I inform bind where to forward DNS queries? You probably didn't chmod the file to 755. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: Installing X in other than /usr/X11R6/

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
to explain here, and off-topic for this list (BLFS assumes that you have root access). Also, I already hinted how to install XOrg 7.1 into your home directory in my previous mail. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfroms

Re: error compiling xorg-server-1.1.0

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
dosemu): cd /usr/include/sys wget -qO- http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/glibc-2.3.6-linux_types-1.patch | patch -Np6 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Installing X in other than /usr/X11R6/

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
show you only a blank screen. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Installing X in other than /usr/X11R6/

2006-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ou have no access to /usr, I assume you are not root. Result: you cainstall the server into your home directory, but it won't work. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

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. Patrako

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
llowing options to /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe: persist holdoff 15 lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 3 This way, pppd will retry in 15 seconds after it knows that the connection broke. Also, it will send echo requests to the peer every 30 seconds, and failure to answer 3 requests counts as link fail

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

2006-06-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
8xxx nvidia drivers and Xorg 7.1. It can be (reportedly) worked around by adding to xorg.conf: Option "RenderAccel" "no" but I can't check this because I have an ATI video card. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

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

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
If one works, there is no reason to assume that the other will work. With the PPP package alone, only kernel-mode pppoe is available, so your assumption breaks if you were using user-mode pppoe (the default with rp-pppoe). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listi

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
o add sound, put please don't remove anything). Old udev won't fully work with that kernel, but you still should be able to: ip link set eth0 up modprobe pppoe pppd call pppoe -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
; PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
loads modules and you don't even have support for them. Do I need to enable "Loadable module support" in order to use the PPPoE module? No. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html U

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
. You can build it into the kernel, though, and this would fix your problem. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 Failed to create PPPoE socket: Address family not supported by protocol That's because you didn't load the "pppoe" kernel module before following the instructions. -- Alexander E. Patrakov

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
only the PPP package? Yes, sorry for inaccurate instructions in the Wiki. You need to run: ip link set eth0 up and only then "pppd eth0" (assuming that everything ele is correct) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-su

Re: /dev/bugreport (was: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal)

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
e due to drivers probing their hardware in a separate thread), so let's just ignore bugreports and remove the "bug" rule, the /lib/udev/bug program and the corresponding parts of "udev" and "udev_retry" bootscripts. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfroms

Re: gcc-3.3.6 "tail" command fix.

2006-05-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Too bad. Sounds to me as though it's time to update your software inventory to modern standards. :-) This means junking too-new ATI PCI-E cards that work only with proprietary driver (it requires libstdc++.so.5). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
tc/profile: export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 Try en_GB -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
olume-manager and gnome-power-manager. I'm not aware of any daemon on the linux console. ivman. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: detex

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
-o detex.o detex.c cc -O -o detex detex.o -ll The need for #include and for -DNO_MALLOC_DECL are detex bugs. The need to remove the ']]' line is definitely a bug in flex (reproducible on Debian too). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-suppor

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 5/12/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also I have to check that the problem is indeed still relevant for Seamonkey-1.0.1 (it was checked only for 1.0). I'd be surprised if it has changed. I've opened up simple bugs like this before

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
y, my attempt to build SeaMonkey today failed for a completely different reason. Could you please wait until tomorrow? Also I have to check that the problem is indeed still relevant for Seamonkey-1.0.1 (it was checked only for 1.0). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 05/10/06 08:27 CST: If it doesn't: bug in Firefox (and in the book). If this is a bug in the book, why haven't you ever mentioned it? Because the book doesn't tell the user to add --enable-pango (i.e.: doesn

Re: firefox cashes in file-open and file-save dialogs

2006-05-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
sn't: bug in Firefox (and in the book). Rebuild with the library containing the needed symbol explicitly mentioned in LDFLAGS, as the LiveCD does with SeaMonkey: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/browser/trunk/packages/seamonkey/.mozconfig -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://lin

Re: arts and glib2=>2.10

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
wait for an updated glib? You should fix arts. The problem is that developers on each side put the responsibility onto the other side, and there is no fix available. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscrat

Re: Keyboard problem

2006-05-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ad the 6.2-pre3 LFS LiveCD, boot it, select French, and, if it works, copy xorg.conf from there. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gphoto permissions

2006-04-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
straPix 320s BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0d64", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1001", MODE="0660", GROUP="camera" This rule catches all PTP cameras: # USB PTP Class Camera BUS=="usb", SYSFS{bDeviceClass}=="06", MODE="0660", GROUP=&q

Re: Font changing by their own ???

2006-04-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
the case, putting a "DisplaySize x y" where x and y represent the physical size of your screen in millimeters, into the "Monitor" section of xorg.conf should work around the problem. If this helps, you need to buy a new monitor. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfr

Re: Dosemu not compiling, "pci_power_t" problem

2006-04-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
at.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/kd.h.diff?cvsroot=glibc&r1=1.4&r2=1.5 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: xfce error

2006-04-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
conf to get rid of this. FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Xorg bug (but a harmless one), shows up for everyone. Please ignore. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.

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