RE: Udev matters

2007-08-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In attempting to get a braille display working with brltty, the brltty list > invited me to show the contents of /dev/bus/usb/, from which, it raised an > interesting question. That of leading zeroes, it would appear that brl

Udev matters

2007-08-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi In attempting to get a braille display working with brltty, the brltty list invited me to show the contents of /dev/bus/usb/, from which, it raised an interesting question. That of leading zeroes, it would appear that brltty expects the devices to have a leading zero but my lfs installation

RE: Struggling with gnome 2.18.3

2007-08-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
> > After some consideration, shouldn't I try and debug the starting of gnome > session? Would the startx command offer a way of collecting the gnome > software executing? That would help. It just seemed like the error was coming from GDM, though. But, yes, you can debug gnome-session as descri

RE: Struggling with gnome 2.18.3

2007-08-26 Thread Georgina Joyce
Regrettably not so. There's no extra in sys.log and once I got some fragmented output and thought I'd cracked it so I tried again and again but can't get any output. From memory it complained, something like: Can't find /dev/null/pango Rc not a directory I'm sorry, I can't get it to do it ag

RE: Struggling with gnome 2.18.3

2007-08-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
It means to detach from the current process. This means that it will stay on the terminal you started it at. You stop it with Ctrl-C. OK, I guess it's a matter of timing. > Whatever I try I cannot get any output having added the debug > arguments. Nothing is printed to STDOUT or file. OK, I gues

RE: Have I messed up a file?

2007-08-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
> > Ah! I see the time notation, still I don't expect to see the 0 I'm used to > seeing tty2 etc. Didn't realise that I had a 0 is that tty7? Actually, :0 isn't a terminal like tty1, tty2, etc. It's indicating a graphical login (i.e gdm), where :0 is your local display. Thanks, it shows I was

RE: Struggling with gnome 2.18.3

2007-08-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
That doesn't say too much. Could you try running gdm with debugging? Try adding the following to /etc/gnome/2.18.3/gdm/custom.conf (the [debug] group may already exist): [debug] Enable=true Done that. Then run gdm (as root) and don't let it fork: gdm -nodaemon Sorry, I don't know what fork mea

RE: Have I messed up a file?

2007-08-25 Thread Georgina Joyce
The +0100 means that you're currently in GMT+1(don't forget that DST adds one to your time zone) and :0 means terminal 0. Ah! I see the time notation, still I don't expect to see the 0 I'm used to seeing tty2 etc. Didn't realise that I had a 0 is that tty7? Gena -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Have I messed up a file?

2007-08-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I see the following after logging in but don't know where to look to correct it: Last login: Fri Aug 24 22:06:29 +0100 2007 on :0. No mail. What is the +0100 and on :0? Thanks Gena Amateur Call: M 0 E B P VOIP / IM: gena1959uk -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-suppo

Struggling with gnome 2.18.3

2007-08-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I don't understand what is going on here but I can't get my gnome installation running and I could really could do with some help in sorting it out: tail -n 26 /var/log/gdm/:0.log X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Buil

RE: Log files on a lfs / blfs box

2007-08-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Many thanks. Gena Amateur Call: M 0 E B P VOIP / IM: gena1959uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Nicholson Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:58 PM To: BLFS Support List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Log files on a lfs / bl

RE: Xorg / Gnome client file?

2007-08-15 Thread Georgina Joyce
There was a bug in our Mesa build a while back where the variable pointing to the the DRI drivers was incorrect. Try this out: $ strings $XORG_PREFIX/lib/libGL.so | grep /dri GJ: It doesn't return anything. I've reinstalled Mesa and Xserver and still no output. It should say ${XORG_PREFIX}/l

Xorg / Gnome client file?

2007-08-14 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I haven't been able to get the gnome 2.18.3 build to run. I appear to have Xorg 7.2 running OK with an integrated KM400 Via chipset. Although the DRI side of things are questionable. I've tried the xf86 via video driver as well as that of the openchrome project. But still get a complaint

RE: Gedit and spell error

2007-08-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
Enchant is a spell checking framework used in Abiword. It uses aspell as a backend (as well as hspell and uspell, but they're only needed in languages aspell can't handle). You can get it here: http://www.abisource.com/enchant/ The build is straight ./configure, make, make install and it depends

RE: Gedit and spell error

2007-08-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
, August 01, 2007 10:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; BLFS Support List Subject: Re: Gedit and spell error On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:04:41PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hi > > I'm confused over the dependencies for gedit 2.18.1. I have aspell installed > and hoped that it would pick

Gedit and spell error

2007-08-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I'm confused over the dependencies for gedit 2.18.1. I have aspell installed and hoped that it would pick it up as it isn't a dependency. I got the error shown below and if I use the switch as suggested the configure completes. However, I'd like to have access to a spell checker. checki

RE: NSS installed Firefox problem

2007-08-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
installed Firefox problem On 7/30/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I've installed the NSS packaged using the instructions in SVN 29 July 2007. > As part of my gnome build, I want to install Firefox. As I'm building gnome > to use orca, I

NSS installed Firefox problem

2007-07-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I've installed the NSS packaged using the instructions in SVN 29 July 2007. As part of my gnome build, I want to install Firefox. As I'm building gnome to use orca, I understand I need to install a development version of Firefox, so I checked out CVS 29 July 2007 the Firefox repository. I

RE: Stuck on gnome 2.18 - gnome-vfs

2007-07-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi My apologies. See my other posts. You are experiencing the problem due to my error in documenting the required dependencies. You must install the dbus-glib package. You'll find it in Section 8 "General Libraries" in the "D-Bus Bindings" instructions. Install the packages (you'll need to inst

RE: Stuck on gnome 2.18 - gnome-vfs

2007-07-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi It is complaining that the D-Bus GLib bindings were not found. Please execute this command: ls -l /usr/lib/pkgconfig/dbus* And see what is returned. At a minimum, you should have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 383 Jul 8 12:51 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/dbus-1.pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288 Jul 8 19:

Stuck on gnome 2.18 - gnome-vfs

2007-07-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Just got to gnome-vfs-2.18.1 but it can't find it's dependencies although they all are installed correctly, to my knowledge. By googling I found a suggestion that such error was related to popt but I looked and I do have those libraries in /usr/lib/. All the path variables are set and I've

RE: The blfs archives

2007-07-03 Thread Georgina Joyce
VOIP / IM: gena1959uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Nicholson Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 9:55 PM To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: The blfs archives On 7/2/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's

RE: The blfs archives

2007-07-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
t: Re: The blfs archives On 7/1/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the easiest way of searching the lfs blfs archives? Google doesn't seem to process our mail archives very quickly. You can try to use this custom search I put together which just drops int

RE: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-07-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Geard Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:59 AM To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables? On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 00:42 +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote: > checking for X11... configure: e

RE: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-07-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
Behalf Of Matthew Burgess Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; BLFS Support List Subject: Re: What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables? On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:00:56 Georgina Joyce wrote: > In working through 28 June 2007 blfs, I'm attempting

The blfs archives

2007-07-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I'm not really getting anywhere with my problem with building the lib X11 part of Xorg 7.2. Google seems to offer a number of similar problems but I can never find the solution. I even found a lfs link for xorg 7.1 with exactly the same error. When I tried to find any replies I couldn't

What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-06-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Oh silly me! I didn't see the part of the error that suggests that it is wingeing about a version of a previously installed package. I got there in the end, now let's see if I can fix it! I wrote: In working through 28 June 2007 blfs, I'm attempting to build the Xorg libraries. However,

What values do I give the X11_CFLAGS X11_LIBS variables?

2007-06-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi In working through 28 June 2007 blfs, I'm attempting to build the Xorg libraries. However, I'm getting the error below: I observed the PKG_CONFIG_PATH and set that to /usr/lib/pkgconfig as that appeared to be the correct path but it hasn't changed the error, which suggests that it is not

RE: Wget filelist for xorg 7.2

2007-06-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Nicholson Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 3:28 PM To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: Wget filelist for xorg 7.2 On 6/29/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused about the use of

Wget filelist for xorg 7.2

2007-06-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I'm confused about the use of the filelist mentioned for installing xorg. Can I download a prepared list? If I compile my own, how will I know the complete filename? Or how will I know the required sequence to meet dependencies? Have I missread something about installing xorg? G

RE: Ncftp problems resolved but what should have I done?

2007-06-19 Thread Georgina Joyce
This might actually be a better choice since some utilities might have the paths to coreutils utilities hard-coded. For instance, I'm pretty sure something if diffutils does this. So, things might break if you move the coreutils from where they are now. Many thanks to you guys, you really know yo

RE: Ncftp problems resolved but what should have I done?

2007-06-19 Thread Georgina Joyce
Coreutils. You can just probably just run the mv commands at the end of the section. They haven't changed in a long time. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/coreutils.html Oh dear, thanks. Gena -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ

RE: Ncftp problems resolved but what should have I done?

2007-06-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
If rm and ls are in /usr/bin, then that is a bug in your setup. They are expected to be in /bin for many reasons, one of which is assumptions by other utilities. That's where we install them in LFS. Oh dear, really? What lfs packages install these? I copied and pasted most of the commands, so

RE: Ncftp problems resolved but what should have I done?

2007-06-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
I think you have to solve this issue before you go any further. First, is /bin in your PATH? Can you run /bin/ls? You might want to check the directory and file permissions for /bin, /lib, /sbin, etc. Sorry, I don't understand. The configure script looked for /bin/rm but couldn't find it. Yes

RE: Vorbis-tools and CURL error?

2007-06-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Did you try google? http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.misc/2007-03/msg00637.html I did that's how I knew that the error was linked to curl. Thanks Tijnema -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsu

Ncftp problems resolved but what should have I done?

2007-06-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi All I attempted to install ncftp as instructed by SVN 15 June 07. On a lfs system using SVN 15 June 07, i.e. glibc 2.5 and gcc 4.1.2. However, the ncftp version has been updated on www.ncftp.com/ncftp so I attempted to use the instructions to the new version as well as the older version I

Vorbis-tools and CURL error?

2007-06-18 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I'm trying to compile vorbis-tools on my new lfs SVN 15/06/07 system. I looked on the web and found that there seems to be a problem with curl and vorbis-tools but I can't find a solution. Any pointers please? if gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/inc

coreutils test failier.

2006-06-02 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I wondered what I should do about this test failier? sr/src/coreutils-5.96/tests/stty' make check-TESTS make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/coreutils-5.96/tests/stty' stty: standard input: No such device or address FAIL: row-col-1 PASS: basic-1 == 1 of 2

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
would be beneficial to me, so that I can be sure what I'm booting. Cheers Gena On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:55:48AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/31/06, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >title LFS 6.15.4 vmlinuz > >root (hd1,0) > >kernel (hd0,

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Yes, I assume that your right. I was just so shocked that it actually worked. Now I can boot the machine without having to rewrite the mbr I can experiment. Until I understand firmly. thanks. Gena On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:56:47AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/31/06, Michiel Faber

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Just a note to thanks to all those who gave suggestions on grub menu statements. Just for the record, it would appear that I'd made the mistake of using /boot on the kernel line when I didn't need to as it was mounted as /boot. Furthermore, I was using symlinks to point to kernel images on

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:08:24AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Could be. As Alan said, try and keep it simple. Try adding some more > options to the bottom of menu.lst, something like > Good idea, Thanks. I'll give it a go later. Gena > # Testing > title LFS vmlinuz > kernel (hd0,0)/boot

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:20:03PM +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > > Shouldn't you *know* if this is the case or not? Just take a look at > your /etc/fstab and you'll soon find out! Of course, I've partitioned and mouted my file systems. I wrote the /etc/fstab too but that doesn't mean the grubby gru

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:15:41AM +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > > as you stated you have a small partition where you keep all your > kernels, is it mounted as /boot? If so, you need to drop the reference > to boot in the kernel line, e.g. I guess, I'll be shouting BINGO soon. That's got to be it.

Re: A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:41:51AM +0200, Luca Dionisi wrote: > Perhaps you are confused about the root command in grub > and the root parameter of the kernel. > As I understand, root command in grub is just a shorthand. > > If you say in menu.lst > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/lfs/lfs-2.6.15.4

A grubby question - the menu.lst statements

2006-05-31 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi All I wonder if someone could help me understand grub, it seems I just can't get it right. I've read the book and understand that grub uses a unique notation for hard disks. However, I have a small partition that supposed to hold the kernels for all the installations on the 2 hard drives.

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > One more thing that I remember now, the 1.95 beta version is what I > couldn't get working. It has been a long time, but if I remember > correctly GNOME speech only worked with the 1.4.3 version you can > get here: http://festvox.

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Be forewarned, I could never get festival to work right with Gnome > Speech and Gnopernicus. This was quite a while ago, and those issues > may be resolved now. I use FreeTTS exclusively now, as it works first > time every time. H

Re: gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:28:19AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Myself, all I ever put in is the 'exec gnome-session' line. I've > never needed the metacity line, and I would for sure remove the > xterm and xclock lines. OK, I'll give that a go but I'm guessing that 'll not make any differenc

Re: gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Did you change your .xinitrc file as suggested in the "Configuring the > Core GNOME packages page like so? : > > echo "exec gnome-session" >> ~/.xinitrc Here it is: # Begin .xinitrc file xterm -g 80x40+0+0 & xclock -g 100x100

Re: gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi No that hasn't revealed the errors my helper attempted to read. (gnopernicus:3532): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Gena On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 01:48:17PM +0300, remus draica wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:02, Georgina Joyce wrote: > > > Hi, > > Run

Re: freetts and gnome-speech

2006-05-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:00:59PM +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > --with-jab-dir? Is that a typo, meant to be --with-jar-dir? Good question, I just copied it from the book on installing gnome-speech when using the java access bridge, so I didn't question it but the configuration did not complain

gnopernicus error log

2006-05-29 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I've managed to install gnopernicus on my lfs 6.1.1.4 system. As advised, gnome-speech would not work with festival 1.95 beta. Having installed three TTS synthesisers one worked that was Dectalk, so I decided to see how far I could go with that. I aquired sighted help and I fired up start

freetts and gnome-speech

2006-05-28 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I'm having difficulties with getting gnome-speech to accept my installation of freetts. I followed the instruction for access-bridge support with gnome-speech and the configure didn't see the freetts. So I specified it: ./configure --with-jab-dir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/s

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Well when I get it installed properly, I might play about like that. I wondered what the users of the system think about the voice? Gena On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:54:43PM -0500, Chuck Rhode wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote this on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:32:00PM +0100. > My reply is

Re: Ant errors not music...

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:26:41AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Use version 3.8.1 of Junit. The new 4.0 version is not compatible. > I need to update the Ant instructions with this as well. > Thanks, that done it. Gena > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [g

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Well, what can I say but thanks. For me this is the last time I'm trying gnopernicus, many of us have been disappointed. With orca and KDE looking at accessibility, our access may be a little more promising. Personally, I'm quite happy at console level for about 90% of my computer needs.

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:00:36AM -0500, Chuck Rhode wrote: > > Festival is very un-BLFS-like, isn't it? I've been preparing to > home-roll a phone autoattendant with vgetty. IIRC, I created a new > /opt/voice directory, changed to it, and un*tar*red *festival* there, > built it there, and left

Re: What java

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:03:30AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On this page (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp), pick the > one that just says JDK 5.0 Update 7. You don't need the bundled > NetBeans or the Enterprise Edition. Thanks, got it and installed using the instructions give

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Many thanks, I'll bare that in mind. It goes without saying, I'll contribute where I can but obviously in terms of providing useful code etc. I'm not equiped. But I can give feedback. Gena On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:56:54AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: I wondered what was the starting point here? In trying to work it through, I imagine that you were in the festival directory but when you create a symlink you step back to enter festival/src if I've got it right? Gena > > My note

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
OK, thanks. On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote these words on 05/27/06 10:22 CST: > > Thanks, I'll study these notes, should be a good guide. > > I have similar notes for the speech_tools package along with a patch > I use

Re: Ant errors not music...

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:26:41AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Use version 3.8.1 of Junit. The new 4.0 version is not compatible. > I need to update the Ant instructions with this as well. OK, I did look for an older version but didn't get very far. I note that the blfs site didn't have on

Re: What java

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:03:30AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/27/06, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >j2sdk-1_4_2_11-linux-i586.bin > > > >Which installed correctly. The question is is this package adequate to > >build and install

Re: Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Thanks, I'll study these notes, should be a good guide. On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 09:56:54AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/27/06 09:43 CST: > > > I would try `make install'. > > My notes show these commands to install festival: > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/f

What java

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I wondered what java package I need to install TTS engines and their appropriate tools etc. I followed the link in the blfs book but got rather comfused. I downloaded: jdk-1_5_0_06-nb-5_0-linux.bin But this file gave me the old familiar error that it can't run in graphical mode and to us

Ant errors not music...

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi All Excuse my sense of humour! In attempting to get some TTS engines installed, I'm having problemes installing apache ant. Firstly, I get an error unpacking the file and I've redownloaded the file from different sources, see below: I've grabbed the junit package as instructed in the blfs

Finishing festival install

2006-05-27 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi Well I'm trying to get some TTS ready for gnome-speech and gnopernicus. I followed the instructions I found on the web, see below and festival will talk if I run /usr/src/festival/bin/festival however, I'm not sure how I should complete the installation. Should I simply copy the contents o

Re: Was:- Language setting - Probably missed something - Access to GUI for BLinux users

2006-05-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:38:05AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Looks like gnopernicus-1.1.0 was just released yesterday (2006-06-23). > Orca-0.2.4 was just released a week or so ago (2006-06-15). Both of > them seem to use on gnome-speech and brltty. So, it looks like you've > got a couple o

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
Cheers, many thanks. On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:28:59PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote: > > >What does i18n mean? > > I think it means internationalisation (an i, eighteen letters, then a n) > > Andy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailm

Re: Was: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:36:18PM +, Warren Wilder wrote: > Georgina Joyce schreef: > > Speech synthesizer? > Are you saying you are using a program to read out your emails for you? > If so, what programs are to your liking? This sounds rather nifty to try > out. > I rec

Re: Was:- Language setting - Probably missed something - Access to GUI for BLinux users

2006-05-24 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:20:45PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Which Text-To-Speech package are you using. I have real good luck > making Gnopernicus work perfectly with FreeTTS. > I haven't got that far yet, I saw the freeTTS in the book, so may go that route. Although, I'm a fan of the d

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
Thanks, that's all sorted now. I'd missed the link for configuration because I wanted to see if I could get gnopernicus talking. Slowly but surely, I'm getting there. What does i18n mean? Gena On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:21:54PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote: > On Tue, May

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:58:09PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote: > > But as the subject states, I want to get the language issue sorted out first. > I don't understand, I've always used locales on my debian systems but lfs > doesn't offer instruction upon installin

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:07:52PM +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote: > >On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:30:20AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>What happens if you create the directory shown above as instructed > > > >>in the BLFS X installation? > >

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:07:15AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > I did. Please carefully reread my message. In fact, you quoted the > part where I tell you which package to look at. Whoops, apologies, my speech synthesiser read it but I was too slow in catching it. Apologies. But as the subj

Re: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:30:20AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > What happens if you create the directory shown above as instructed > in the BLFS X installation? What package instructed as you suggest? I've installed many packages am I expected to recall every one? Obviously, I have a permi

Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi All Well, I've got gnome running as root however, as a general user x / gnome complains of my language settings. Which I should have addressed before now probably as perl complained when I had to install the XML::Parser. I've tried stating in my /etc/profile: export LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1

Re: control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-23 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:49:29AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > It looks like ld isn't finding libpangoxft. Try running make like this > > make LDFLAGS=-lpangoxft-1.0 Just the job, many thanks. It's was an experience to have gnome go so well until the penaltimate package. Many thanks. Gena

Re: control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-22 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:52:19PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > After you've run configure, before you run make, remove -Werror from the > libkbdraw Makefile > > sed -i 's: -Werror::' libkbdraw/Makefile > Thanks, you even supplied the sed line. Now I have the problem with pango. I've had

Re: control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-22 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 06:31:24PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > Georgina Joyce wrote: > >In file included from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangofc-font.h:25, > > from /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pango-ot.h:25, > > from /usr/include/pango-1.

Re: control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-22 Thread Georgina Joyce
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:32:52AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > > Hmm...this should have fixed the first error. Please verify that > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftheader.h does exist. If not, > your freetype installation is broken...reinstall it. > > If ftheader.h is there, then double

Re: control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-21 Thread Georgina Joyce
> but this on rings a bell. I think the problem was that it is looking for > freetypes headers in /usr/include/freetype when they're actually in > /usr/include/freetype2/freetype. There may have been some elegant > solution, a sed or somesuch, but IIRC the quick and dirty fix was to > make a sy

control centre make error: [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1

2006-05-21 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hi I wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction in resolving this gnome control centre make error? I've googled and found some references but can't seem to find the solution or any indication what it is I've done or not done. Any help please? make all-recursive make[1]: Entering