.1.
The installed poppler version is:
[IP-] [ ] app-text/poppler-0.24.5:0/44
Not sure which number means what here. My guess would be that 0.24,5 is some
gentoo-specific ebuild version whereas 44 is how poppler's developers call
it. Who knows. The actual poppler lib files are like this:
dan@dan /
t
connected and then restart wifi0 from the terminal. If all works then,
it's a matter of deciding when to start wifi0--on boot or after you've
started kde. I jumped right to Network Manager and don't know if the
drop down menu in KDE starts wifi0 or not.
Hope th
t process. Xfce4 has an "autostart" function that I
used. Don't know how a similar situation works in KDE.
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nf would work? If so, I don't now how to use those
without following instructions in the book and would need help.
Another possibility would be for me to edit the line
"ac_cv_search_zlibVersion=-lz" but I would not know what to put in place
of -lz.
The "/usr/
On 12/27/2013 08:44 AM, Arthur Radley wrote:
> Dan McGhee grm.net> writes:
>
>> You didn't mention Foomatic. That makes me optimistic. I want to print
>> without having to install that and have hplip operate in its PostScript
>> mode. Did you pass any options duri
On 12/24/2013 04:52 PM, Arthur Radley wrote:
> Dan McGhee grm.net> writes:
>
>> Does anyone have experience with installing hplip and sane?
>>
> I have an HP All-In-One printer-scanner working well in BLFS 7.4. My
> experience...
>
> I installed SANE-1.0.23, XSane
ults of "scanimage -L" are not successful, I could then recompile and
rebuild sane.
Does anyone have experience with installing hplip and sane? If so, I
would appreciate any guidance. If not, then comments on my procedure
are welcome.
and all this depends on the necessity of n
uot;watching" the net-snmp build, I got the hunch that this dependency
is for printers on a big network. My network is me, my iPad, my laptop
and my printer. Is net-snmp really necessary for this situation?
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, an exact copy, of what I have now.
Dan
On the subject of cloning filesystems (as opposed to cloning devices),
I come up blank with names of programs that can do that, even though
there is probably at least one program that can do that.
'e2image' (part of e2fsprogs pkg) might b
On 12/22/2013 08:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu can be, at times, as "hinky" as Windows. As I randomly checked
>> directories and files for permissions. The uid's and gid's for all the
>> package users were indicate
. But this seems pretty strange and I wonder if I have a
wandering file.
Could anyone tell me if they have the same thing? Or barring that, the
location of missing.xml. Of course this assumes that it exists on
anyone's system upon which libxml2 was installed. Stranger things have
happened.
id" and were assigned to group
"sudo." But back here in LFS, everything was as it's supposed to be.
Interesting.
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On 12/22/2013 03:25 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:06:23 -0600
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> 1. Set up and mount a new partition for this system--done
>> 2. As root in / run: $ find . -xdev -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pd
>>
>> 3. Ent
On 12/22/2013 01:45 PM, akhiezer wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 12:06:23 -0600
>> From: Dan McGhee
>> To: BLFS Support List
>> Subject: [blfs-support] Complete Backup of {,B}LFS
>>
>> I should have thought of this when I had a minimal, bootable LFS. But I
&g
's identical.
As I wrote that, something occurred to me. If the kernel on the EFI
partition had no command line arguments in it, gummiboot could point the
same kernel to different partitions through its ".conf
scripts.
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fact, it seems logical to me that the kernel must be reconfigured to
account for moving to a new partition.
I'm asking for comments on this plan or recommendations for a different
backup procedure.
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On 12/21/2013 05:11 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> ...I now have audio and can play files
> and CD's. However, the sound is weak and thready.
>
> This is the point at which Beats Audio comes in. ALSA apparently
> assumes a "default" use of laptop speakers, and this &q
no users are in the "audio" group. It says that "fast
switching" won't occur with people in the "audio" group. This is a big
deviation from what the book says during the installation of ALSA. I
don't like deviating from the book without bringing it to
On 12/21/2013 03:06 PM, Chris Staub wrote:
> On 12/21/13 10:54, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/21/2013 01:40 AM, Chris Staub wrote:
>> This happened again for me with cdparanoia, which also, as the book
>> says, does not support a parallel build. I'm not sure how to set,
On 12/21/2013 02:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Pierre Labastie wrote:
>> Le 21/12/2013 16:54, Dan McGhee a écrit :
>>> On 12/21/2013 01:40 AM, Chris Staub wrote:
>>>> I don't normally use json-c, but as I use package users myself I thought
>>>> I'd
t; builds. It worked fine once I removed the -j. If it worked as root it's
> probably just because you don't have MAKEFLAGS or something defined as root.
This happened again for me with cdparanoia, which also, as the book
says, does not support a parallel build. I'm not sure how to
I need to install SDL as a dependency for a non-BLFS application.
SDL-1.2.15 is in the book. SDL-2.0 is the latest release. Does anyone
have any experience building SDL-2.0 as far as different dependencies
and configure options?
I don't know if it makes a difference which one I install.
rence for
all those events was 1.00 for me.
Thanks, Bruce, for prompting me, once again, to not over think the
situation and to examine the forest very closely for individual trees.
Next is printing and I use hplip with a wireless printer. List beware! :)
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On 12/20/2013 11:58 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/20/2013 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>>> The only addition and possibly relevan
On 12/20/2013 11:41 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/20/2013 06:15 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build
>>>> with:
>>
On 12/20/2013 11:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP
>>>> ENVY m6 Sleekbook, has
On 12/20/2013 11:32 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Armin K. wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 06:15 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with:
>>>
>>>> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode
On 12/20/2013 11:18 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/20/2013 06:15 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I'm building JSON-C as a dependency for PulseAudio. It fails to build with:
>>
>>> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -Werror -Wextra
>>> -Wwrite-st
_DIR=/path/to/json_c/install
> CFLAGS += -I$(JSON_C_DIR)/include/json-c
> LDFLAGS+= -L$(JSON_C_DIR)/lib -ljson-c
If it's relevant to pass any of these things to get JSON-C to build, how
and where would I do it?
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On 12/19/2013 08:27 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> The only addition and possibly relevant info is that my HP laptop, HP
>> ENVY m6 Sleekbook, has "Beats Audio." I don't know if I need to install
>> or do anything other t
On 12/18/2013 04:14 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> The low-level beeps and "announcements" from the kernel and xfce4 work
> fine. In fact, I made them louder with alsamixer. I just finished
> installing alsa-1.0.27.2 up to and not including
> alsa-{tools,firmware}-1.0.27.2. T
On 12/18/2013 05:53 PM, Robin wrote:
You've 2 sound devices? alsamixer hit F6 to check
Did that. Not using HDMI. Analogue is default. See results of -L> below.
On 18 December 2013 22:14, Dan McGhee <mailto:beesn...@grm.net>> wrote:
I really wish that I could get rid
ally, I found this "HowTo"
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17sov5/
It uses "jack" to "re-pin" the speakers. "JACK" and pulseaudio are
listed as "optional" dependencies for alsa-plugins. If I need one or
both of these, I want to install
On 12/16/2013 05:31 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I was spinning my tires and decided to install "network-manager-applet."
> To eliminate the gory details, what I learned was that Network Manager
> was trying to authenticate my wireless card and asking for the password
> to the r
On 12/15/2013 04:29 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> I installed and configured Network Manager--and double checked-as the
> BLFS book indicates. The first sign of trouble what when I rebooted and
> the boot "hung" with 2 error messages from NetworkManager repeating.
> They were the
o_sysctl(): sysctl: setting
> '/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/use_tempaddr' to '0'
> NetworkManager[28530]: [1387144650.951303] [nm-device.c:5314]
> nm_device_set_managed(): (wlan0): now unmanaged
> NetworkManager[28530]: (wlan0): device state change:
> disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [30 10 36]
> NetworkManager[28530]: (wlan0): cleaning up...
> NetworkManager[28530]: (wlan0): taking down device.
> NetworkManager[28530]: [1387144650.969026]
> [NetworkManagerUtils.c:637] nm_utils_do_sysctl(): sysctl: setting
> '/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/accept_ra' to '1'
> NetworkManager[28530]: [1387144650.969255]
> [NetworkManagerUtils.c:637] nm_utils_do_sysctl(): sysctl: setting
> '/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/use_tempaddr' to '0'
> NetworkManager[28530]: exiting (success)
I circumvented any ownership and persmissions problems by installing as
root. Once again, I'm sorry to post so much logging output, but I
didn't know what was relevant.
Thanks,
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the one with the other.
I'm doing things in this BLFS build that I've never done before. It's
interesting, informative, and aggravating. :)
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On 12/13/2013 01:36 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 01:10:54PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> What, if any, functional loss will I experience by not installing Cups
>> right now? If I wait to build Cups will I have to rebuild Qt-5.2.0
>>
> For qt-5 I cann
On 12/13/2013 02:31 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 13.12.2013 19:30, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/13/2013 12:00 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2013 06:58 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> On 12/13/2013 11:23 AM, Armin K. wrote:
>>>>> On 12/13/2013 06:18 PM, Dan
nting until I got most of the other things in my system working.
I consider Qt one of the building blocks.
What, if any, functional loss will I experience by not installing Cups
right now? If I wait to build Cups will I have to rebuild Qt-5.2.0
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On 12/13/2013 12:00 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 06:58 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/13/2013 11:23 AM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2013 06:18 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> Well, it seems that the knowledge I gained over the last few days about
>>>>
On 12/13/2013 11:23 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 06:18 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> Well, it seems that the knowledge I gained over the last few days about
>> polkit and how to configure it isn't quite good enough yet.
>>
>> As I stated in the other thread there
space-separted words in the "exec.path"
line. Should the spaces be "escaped" somhow? (I would try that but I
don't know the syntax for an XML file.) Also, I don't know if the whole
command should be in the "run-amdxdg-su" line. I just thought this
particular item was a name of sorts.
And here is the "Exec" line from the .desktop file.
> Exec=pkexec amdxdg-su -c amdcccle
Any pointers, suggestions or directions?
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On 12/12/2013 03:17 PM, akhiezer wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:37:39 -0600
>> From: Dan McGhee
>> To: BLFS Support List
>> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Polkit Actions
>>
> .
> .
>> I usually don't suggest things like this and I don&
On 12/11/2013 06:06 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 05:50 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>> On 12/12/2013 12:47 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2013 05:35 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/2013 12:19 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> You can always try running
On 12/12/2013 10:54 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/12/2013 10:00 AM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2013 04:56 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> I've noticed that many files that get installed are XML files and
>>>> contain many lines for
On 12/12/2013 10:00 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 04:56 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I've noticed that many files that get installed are XML files and
>> contain many lines for messages in different languages. In particular
>> I'm thinking of the action files in /
the
files make it a little difficult to find what I'm looking for.
In installing these packages; e.g., polkit, did I miss a dependency to
render these files with only the en_US messages, or is there another
application that I can apply to these files to eliminate the lines
relating to oth
On 12/11/2013 05:50 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 12:47 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 05:35 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2013 12:19 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> You can always try running "pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted" from a terminal
>>&g
On 12/11/2013 05:35 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 12:19 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 05:01 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> I have the same desktop file here. However, you do need to verify if
>>> authentication agent is started. Run "ps aux | grep polkit&quo
On 12/11/2013 05:01 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 11:53 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 03:56 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2013 10:06 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>>>> On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan M
licy Configuration 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd";>
>
>
>
> Run GParted
> Authentication is required to run GParted
>
> no
> no
> auth_admin_keep
>
> key="org.freedesktop.polic
On 12/11/2013 03:56 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 10:06 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>>> In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the
>>>> Cata
On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the
>> Catalyst Control Center for my ATI-Radeon chip.
> You have to edit both .desktop files and add "pkexec /path/to/progr
On 12/11/2013 12:16 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Em 11-12-2013 14:12, Dan McGhee escreveu:
>> On 12/10/2013 02:34 PM, David Brodie wrote:
>
>>> The rules.d subdirectory needs to be owned by polkitd. In fact, this is
>>> what I've got:
>>>
>>&g
On 12/11/2013 12:20 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 06:45 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> This is a polkit action file to be put in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
>> directory. As written, it would go in that directory with the name
>>
>> "org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted&qu
If it's just a
name, then I don't have to consider anything else.
In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the
Catalyst Control Center for my ATI-Radeon chip.
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On 12/10/2013 02:34 PM, David Brodie wrote:
> On 10/12/13 17:59, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I still couldn't get the drives to mount. I don't know if this last
>> "admin" rule satisfied the "auth_admin" or not. So all until now is
>> "Question 1.&
On 12/09/2013 04:55 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 03:41 PM, David Brodie wrote:
>> On 09/12/13 21:28, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> Thank you for this example. This is the syntax I don't understand. I
>>> don't speak Java. :-)
>> Ahem, java*script*...
On 12/09/2013 03:41 PM, David Brodie wrote:
> On 09/12/13 21:28, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> Thank you for this example. This is the syntax I don't understand. I
>> don't speak Java. :-)
> Ahem, java*script*...completely different. ;)
>
>>> The polkit daemon usuall
p"
--"--with-polkitd-user=" I wonder if this is what caused polkitd
not to compile. We'll see. I suppose user should be root.
This might be a package to install outside the Package Users system.
Thanks, David, I'll see if this stuff will solve it.
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t the different files, but I do not understand the
syntax, esp Polkit rules. I've looked in the Arch, Gentoo and Xfce
wiki's and couldn't find anything that solved the situation.
I will really appreciate any help.
Thanks,
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On 12/07/2013 10:33 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/07/2013 09:57 AM, William Harrington wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>>
>>> I've not been successful in getting autofs to work.
>> There's a huge thread from earlier this year with
On 12/07/2013 09:57 AM, William Harrington wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> I've not been successful in getting autofs to work.
> There's a huge thread from earlier this year with autofs and LFS 7.2.
> It may shed some light into helping you:
re recognized, and are listed in
/dev but there are no additional directories in /mnt. And just so no
one needs to ask, yes "CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS" is set to "y." :)
I don't recall needing make an /etc/fstab entry for this. It's been
awhile so maybe I'm mistaken o
On 12/06/2013 01:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> Maybe someday, I'll have the time and energy to "slog through" the build
>> process and try to find out why this happened. Although I'm happy with
>> the outcome, I don't like t
On 12/06/2013 11:14 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 06/12/2013 18:12, Dan McGhee a écrit :
>> For some reason I was compiling NSS in my Ubuntu host system using the
>> chroot environment. Pierre's reference to a parallel build, and since
>> I wasn't trying to do on
On 12/06/2013 02:51 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
Le 05/12/2013 19:21, Dan McGhee a écrit :
On 12/05/2013 11:20 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
This build has failed three times for me. Here is the applicable
portion of the build log:
[What I originally included was an excerpt from my "error&qu
On 12/05/2013 01:20 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have
>> gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies.
>>
>> I just wanted to get a w
gekko-engine it will also link
against XULrunner. Is this correct?
I want to minimize the number of 50+ SBU builds. :-)
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ot being able to remove the directory
"Linux3.8_x86_64_glibc_PTH_64_OPT.OBJ"
It appears that if the "build" can't remove the directory it thinks it
can't create the file. I'm going to stick my nose into the Makefile and
see if I can find what&#x
gt; ==
>
>
Last night, regarding this subject, I said that I had used Gnome and KDE
and had gotten tired of them. You have captured the essence of why and
much more eloquently than I ever could have articulated. It's the users
who suffer and the space that gets used up when the "de
On 12/03/2013 09:03 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 07:22 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
>> I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you
>> choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install.
>>
>> I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes wi
d of them
both. When I discovered {,B}LFS, I invenstigated the various window
managers mention in the Xorg Chapter. I decided on Window Maker and have
used it ever since. Window Maker and Rox Filer are a really good start.
Then you can engineer the rest of *your own* desktop environment.
Dan
On 12/02/2013 05:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>
>> I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may
>> have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is:
>>
>> Crypt: Invalid argument
> This is what
On 12/02/2013 12:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.'
>> The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and
>> installing using package users, I woul
On 12/02/2013 12:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.'
>> The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and
>> installing using package users, I woul
rd, but there is an issue
>> there that it gives the wrong message.
> I suspect it's the only error message nowadays ;-) I had it the
> other week when I filled up '/tmp'.
>
> ĸen
Are the responses in this thread "Tales from the Crypt?" :-X
uot;halt' and 'reboot' without typing 'sudo
/sbin/{halt,reboot}."
If this whole thing is just configuring sudo, I'm not sure how to do
it. I'm pretty bogged down in the documentation. I guess I could
experiment in the chroot environment though.
I will appr
On 11/30/2013 02:44 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 30.11.2013 20:34, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> On 11/30/2013 12:23 PM, Armin K. wrote:
>>> XServer executable *needs* to be setuid root (It's important that's also
>>> owned by root:root).
>> I discovered that quite
On 11/30/2013 12:32 PM, akhiezer wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:22:01 -0600
>> From: Dan McGhee
>> To: BLFS Support List
>> Subject: [blfs-support] The dreaded "Cannot open Xorg.o.log"
>
> Are you seeing literally the string 'Xorg.o.log' :
On 11/30/2013 12:23 PM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 30.11.2013 18:22, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> For the first time in my LFS life I got this message. Just so people
>> can roll their eyes, but also to provide info, I use the Package Users
>> system. This error, I thought, came fr
I installed everything in Ch. 24 of BLFS-SVN and non-root. I've never
encountered this situation before and am stumped. My only goal right
now is to get the server up and running even if nothing else works.
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On 11/30/2013 09:08 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 30.11.2013 15:48, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> There are many packages in BLFS whose purpose and functions I don't
>> really understand. Even when I try to learn about them the descriptions
>> are cryptic and I still have questi
mode, xorg, my window manager
and wpa_supplicant could all "talk back and forth" to one another. Am I
on the right track or is this over-simplified? Or is it irrelevant? :)
Thanks,
Dan
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On 11/29/2013 10:25 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> You could just add --disable-xvmc. I believe that nobody uses XvMC these
> days, vdpau and vaapi made it more or less obsolete. No distros build it
> anymore.
>
That's great info, Armin. Thanks.
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I honestly don't think there's a problem,
but I wanted to present this so that someone who has more experience and
knowledge than I might tell me if this is really OK.
When I tested LLVM just before MesaLib, I got 3 unexpected failures out
of 8619 tests. That border
On 11/28/2013 08:12 AM, Armin K. wrote:
> On 28.11.2013 15:05, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I'm belaboring this point in case any other LFS'ers get this chip. I'm
>> really careful when it comes to recent AMD-Radeon graphics. Not knowing
>> the incompatibility between
On 11/28/2013 01:23 AM, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 11:17 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to
>> installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip
>> which is Radeon HD
On 11/27/2013 11:26 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to
>> installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip
>> which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to us
cumentation to
support it. But maybe I should in this case.
When I boot, the daemon starts and if I tap my pad the "rectangle"
appears in the middle of the screen, but it won't move and I can't
"select." BTW I'm in a terminal and there is no X environment.
I
On 11/21/2013 02:50 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 21/11/2013 19:45, Dan McGhee a écrit :
>> This is the first time I have setup and configured 'sudo' in an LFS
>> build. I'm trying to learn this so that if I add an account for someone
>> besides me I can s
On 11/21/2013 10:25 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I would like to have more about this. I understand what "info about the
>> Linux Standards Base" means, but what does this script actually
>> accomplish and how is the info used? Does this script i
appears
quite a bit in the boot scripts. How does all this fit together?
Dan
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k it's just a matter of
alias=
Then I need to edit the line "dan ALL=(ALL) ALL" in /etc/sudoers to read:
dan ALL=(ALL) ALL:NOPASSWD /sbin/halt,/sbin/shutdown,/sbin/reboot
Am I on the right track?
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abase key with
>
> efi-updatevar -a -c DB.crt -k KEK.key db
>
> Where KEK.crt and DB.crt are X509 certificates.
>
Of course, I don't understand the specifics of what's written, but I'm
wondering if the reason I couldn't get my compiled version of grub to
work in
On 11/18/2013 08:12 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> You and Bruce are going to have to buy new hardware to check out all of
>> this EFI stuff. :)
> -ENOSPACE : I bought a new low-end AMD A4 in the spring (for Win 7),
>
On 11/18/2013 06:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 06:25:23PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> There are still a couple of "script" things I need to chase: 1) I start
>> getting the pretty, green OK's then the screen goes dark for a count of
>> at
On 11/18/2013 01:18 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:56:14AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote:
>> I got the following messages on boot:
>>
>> Starting wpa_supplicant on the wlan0 interface
>>
>> ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00 lib_request_ firmware: Info-lo
On 11/18/2013 12:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>
>> I see two options:
>>
>> 1. Reconfigure the kernel with CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=n, but I've
>> don't ever remember having to do that.
>> 2. Edit ifconfig files so that this d
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