On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:11:28 -0400
Michael Shell wrote:
> I don't know if so doing will negatively affect hardware acceleration
> on your particular system.
Which depends on whether the system has a Broadcom Crystal HD video
accelerator:
http://liliputing.com/2010/03/broadcom-cryst
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 21:49:59 +0100
"lux-integ" wrote:
> In file included from libavcodec/crystalhd.c:82:0:
> /usr/include/libcrystalhd/bc_dts_types.h:99:28: error: conflicting types for
> 'uint64_t'
> typedef unsigned long long uint64_t;
I found a discussion about this buried in here:
http://
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:11:58 +0200
"Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote:
> We changed grub.cfg to partuuid (by the way, fstab did not accept it).
In order for mount to be able to use PARTUUID, it must be version 2.22
or later:
mount --version
http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2012/09/util-linux-222.html
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:29:49 +0100
"Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/dmesg-sda-sdb-18032013
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Gparted-sda.png
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Gparted-sdb.png
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/873
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:39:34 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> I guess the difference is that ubuntu uses an initrd or initramfs,
> so its initial rootfs is not the ubuntu disk filesystem, and it can
> load enough of userspace to mount by UUID.
His ubuntu installation did originally use the UUID specif
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:37:25 -0400
Michael Shell wrote:
> What partition is Ubuntu on, primary sda1 ?
I see it now: sda2, primary. I wonder if the reordering problem
only affects sda4, extended, and higher. That would explain
why Ubuntu works.
Mike
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:16:44 +0100
"Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote:
> 2.) Rootdelay of, let me say, 50 in the grub command, as suggested by Kenno
> Han, does not change the behaviour. But: if the Toshiba disk is connected
> _during_ the delay time, the boot process finish succesfull.
The idea b
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:34:59 -0400
Michael Shell wrote:
> 1. Changing the BIOS configuration to alter the numbering of
> an external USB drive so as not to disturb the SATA drive
> numbers.
Or more correctly, "so as not to disturb the SATA boot device
number".
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:36:30 +0100
"Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote:
> When an external disk is connected from the very beginning (USB),
> the boot process of the LFS system stops with a kernel panic:
I think what is happening is that when the USB drive is connected
the kernel name/number of the
On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:07:53 -0400
Arthur Radley wrote:
> I finally got Abiword-2.9.4 installed without GTK+-3 by using the
> --with-gtk2 configure option. That idea did not work with Abiword-2.9.3
> (make errors). With that option, Abiword-2.9.4 installed quietly, looks
> normal, and works no
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 03:57:26 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> 2. It changes HZ from 250 to 1000 : my memory says that this box
> doesn't have enough horsepower to call the scheduler so frequently.
FWIW, I once did some testing on a very low horsepower (500MHz CPU)
setup and 300Hz did best with video. Si
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 01:30:21 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> I'm now in the process of downgrading my oldest x86_64 to x86_32 [
> i.e. i686 ] - recent g++ is unusable on a desktop x86_64 with only
> 2 GB of memeory and a uniprocessor (i.e. the desktop becomes
> unresponsive when compiling).
I'm sure
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:48:40 -0400
alex lupu wrote:
> Having just read the article,
> www.cnn.com/2012/08/27/tech/web/apple-linux-desktop/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
> all that had me slide into a really dark mood.
Maybe this will cheer you up:
http://www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-w
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:03:38 +0100
Ken Moffat wrote:
> In an infinite universe, I would devote a little time to this. In
> reality, my accumulated backlog of computer things I *want* to do
> covers about 2 years of my time.
I can really relate to this. I also am *years* behind on some things,
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:50:25 +0100
Ken Moffat wrote:
> i.e. it (slowly: the file is on a local disk) fills the
> buffer, plays the buffer, then waits while it refills the
> buffer.
I doubt this is the problem, especially on a new machine,
but in the past issues like this were a symptom that DMA
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:18:32 +0100
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Has anyone managed to play DVDs with vlc ? On my previous
> attempts, I assumed the intermittent playback was down to my old IDE
> DVD drive, but on my new machines it still shows the same behaviour,
> i.e. play a few seconds, stall, play a
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:47:16 -0500
Stuart Stegall wrote:
> It's not resolved as of yet I believe: downgrade to 2.1.23
FWIW, there is a patch to fix 2.1.25:
https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3590
--- auxprop.c.orig 2012-01-1
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:39:53 +1200
Simon Geard wrote:
> That one links to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266
> which makes it sound like this is an X server bug, which the new cairo
> release triggers. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a clear idea of
> what that bug is yet.
It seems that the latest version of the GStreamer Base Plug-ins
(0.10.36), which is covered in the CVS version of the BLFS book:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/multimedia/gst-plugins-base.html
Does not have a --with-gtk configure option as stated in the book, but
the older release
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:53:12 -0700
Alan wrote:
> After much experimenting and turning off hardware flow control in my
> hyperterminal and in minicom, (I also encountered the doesn't change
> devices issue) I was able to get a hello world from one machine to the
> other.
Glad to hear it! This i
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:55:16 -0700
Alan wrote:
> Now that I have it all compiled in and listed in my dmesg, I'm still
> needing some additional deep assistance on this one. With the serial
> cable from my lfs machine to a windows machine, I get NOTHING over
> that /dev/ttyUSB0 serial port.
OK
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:57:36 -0700
Alan wrote:
> Therefore I bought a couple of Trendnet USB to Serial Converters
According to the comments at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Serial-Converter-TU-S9-White/dp/B0007T27H8
It uses the Prolific PL-2303 chipset which is very compatible with
L
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:20:14 +0200
Thanos Baloukas wrote:
> libassuan-2.0.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr LIBS=`pth-config --libs`
Yeah, that gets it in there alright. However, I guess the question at
hand now is does gpg2 still require libassuan to be linked to libpth?
My build of gnupg-2.0.18 di
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:24:34 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Personally, I don't think LFS has an obligation to support 16 year
> old code that is needed for a boot loader that we don't support.
I understand that. However, as far as lilo goes, they seem to have
restarted development in 2010 (and I al
Looking at the book for Libassuan-2.0.2:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/libassuan.html
I note that it states that libassuan.a and libassuan-pth.a
are installed. However, is this really still true?
./configure --help
for Libassuan-2.0.2 says:
--enable-static[=PKGS] b
I know this is more of a LFS issue (feel free to forward this to
LFS if you wish), but Make 3.82 has a few bugs that affect the
compilation of packages outside those required in LFS book.
In particular, the Dev86src package (needed to build lilo) cannot be
built using make 3.82. There is a CLFS
I recently spent a little time investigating two Xorg driver problems on
a quite old machine of mine (it runs LFS Xorg 7.2 with a now ancient ATI
Radeon 7200 / RV100 card). I wish I had discovered this info 3 years ago
when the Xorg bug first bit a lot of people:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/sho
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:31:06 -0700
TW wrote:
> I got it to work, but, I had to gzip the iso file and then save it
> to the USB stick.
Telly,
But you should not have had to do that if the file size is less than the
amount of free space on the drive. (Also, from your original post, I
thought
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:23:53 -0700
TW wrote:
> When I go to /mnt/usb1 and do a 'cp' command, after a minute or two I
> get
> the following error(s) -->
>
> 'usb 2-1.4: device descriptor read/64, error -110'
> 'usb 2-1.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:23:17 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> The general view of boost is that it contains things which will
> probably end up in the c++ standard.
If this is true, and most of the stuff in boost is in that category
(and not just less than say, 10%, with many "educational-only" stubs
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:46:16 -0500
Mike Hollis wrote:
> I've followed this thread with interest. The increased interdependency
> issue is something that has bugged me for some time. To pursue my
> interests, I truly don't need a graphical environment, but when I do
> use one I try to make it a
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:05:26 +1300
Simon Geard wrote:
> Problem is, that's a *very* hazy line. Both glib and gtk+ are Gnome
> packages - developed by the same people, released on the same schedules.
> But they're also used by packages like gvim that don't use any of the
> rest of Gnome. So do the
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:47:01 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> For myself, I've never built a pure BLFS desktop - my preferred wm
> (icewm) isn't covered,
I like IceWM too. ;)
http://www.icewm.org/
and it is still actively developed. Some years ago, my life got a lot
better after I jettisoned all th
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:05:01 +0100
lI wrote:
> error: "dev.rtc.max-user-freq" is an unknown key
The kernel has to have RTC (real time clock) support (as most do) and
RTC has to be setup by the init scripts:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/rtc.html
Cheers,
Mike Shell
--
http://lin
Forgive me if this is something trivial or otherwise already well known,
but all I ever wanted in LFS package management is something that watched
the installation from source and recorded what files were installed and
where for purposes of later *deinstallation*.
The idea here being that all in
BTW, not really a BLFS issue, but just to share another ffmpeg tip that
might help someone here out - if after recoding a video stream (usually
from a "broadcast" source) to (another) DVD compliant format, you find that
it seems strangely "choppy" around moving objects - looks like a strange
type
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:26:04 +0100
Andrew Benton wrote:
> What makes you think this? I install x264 before I compile ffmpeg and it
> doesn't seems to work fine.
I didn't save the relevant output, but the new x264 saw the existing
older (2007) version of ffmpeg's libraries and complained that
Maybe this info will help someone in the future. It seems we have to be
more careful with ffmpeg's ./configure with regard to CPU capability
settings than we did in the past.
I had a strange problem with ffmpeg on an older K6-2 system after I
upgraded it to a recent 2010-07-11 SVN snapshot of ff
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:15:14 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Consider fluxbox or metacity before Gnome. One of the problems with
> Gnome is that it requires a lot of builds just to start a minimal system.
I agree. I sometimes think the Gnome developers have gone mad.
FWIW, I've been happy with i
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:15:05 -0800
Chris Burel wrote:
> I'm confused what I need to do to get my Canon Rebel XSI camera to be
> recognized.
According this:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS450D/page34.asp
and this:
http://virgo47.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/upgrade-to-canon-eos-450d/
Th
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:19:11 +
"Cliff McDiarmid" wrote:
> echo -n $"Starting NetworkManager daemon: "
> daemon--check $servicename $processname --pid-file=$pidfile
I think that should read:
daemon --check $servicename $processname --pid-file=$pidfile
the --check is an option to your daemo
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:26:43 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is much easier to just build the driver directly into the
> kernel. Modules don't make much sense at all if you know what
> hardware you have.
Yeah, and things run much smoother when the kernel is customized
for the
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:11:49 -0600
Dan Kociela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Abiword 2.4.6 (without gnome) but the configure
> script stops with the error:
> configure: error: Error: libgnomeprint-2.2 >= 2.2.0 libgnomeprintui-2.2
> >= 2.2.0 required
> Having followed the b
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:53:58 -0700
Justin The Cynical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right. What I was thinking of are the fans that have a thermal sensor
> on them, or something that has a speed adjustable fan, ala the Zalman
> CNPS9500.
For the record, the fan you have on there now, that ru
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:32:34 -0700
Justin The Cynical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, here is the deal, and I'm feeling rather dumb and annoyed by it.
>
> The motherboard manual listed the DIMM slots in the following order:
>
> 1 2 3 4 p
> | | | | o
> | | | | w
> | | | | e
> | | | | r
>
On Thu, 29 May 2008 18:46:19 -0700
Justin The Cynical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arima MT110
I *was* going to tell you that Google found a guy *just_like_you* who is
in the very same boat . but, then again, I'm pretty sure you already
know him. ;)
Either not many people have used that boar
On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:41:41 -0700
Justin The Cynical <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, there was not much of anything in the BIOS settings for the built
> on video, so that's kind of out.
That is ironic, isn't it? Do tell us again the make and model number
of the motherboard.
Mike
--
ht
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:10:22 +0600
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tests at the Urals State University show that on "Pentium MMX 166 MHz
> with 128 MB of RAM" machines, "3COM 3C905B" and "Intel Pro 100" cards
> behave approximately identically, and are both slower than a ch
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:14:25 +0300
"Andrey Batyyev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Than I googled around and found other interesting issue: I've put
> /usr/share/texmf/tex into $PATH and restart bash. Tab completion shows
> latex in executables but can't run or find it:
Andrey,
The executables
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:20:11 -0600
"Peter B. Steiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still haven't decided whether I like thunderbird more or less than
> Evolution. I have been wanting to escape the frustrations of Evolution
> for years, but now I'm used to it and I don't want to find a way to
>
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:03:12 +1200
Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Really? It's always seemed perfectly sensible to me - if I run ls with a
> directory parameter, it ought to provide a listing of that directory.
> Other people's usage patterns may vary, but in 90% of cases, listing the
>
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:48:50 -0400
Michael Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cp -a --no-descend /mnt/* /mnt/backup
>
> which would copy the contents of /mnt, but would not go down into
> the subdirectories of it, but would descend in every other
> directory. (i.e., se
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:25:28 +0200
"Tijnema !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, i have /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 mounted as filesystems
> (/data, /, /boot), /dev/hdb3 as swap and /dev/sda1 as /mnt/usb. So
> will i be able to copy the whole /dev dir, or would i need to skip
> /dev/hd{a1,b1,
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:09:25 +0200
"Tijnema !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ps. I don't know if it is a big problem, but i have no device nodes in
> /dev, except /dev/console. I tried to copy them from my system, but i
> can't because they act like very big files..., and so i get a error
> msg tha
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:46:44 +0200
"Tijnema !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Somehow i even needed to mount /dev/sda to get the first(and only)
> partition on my USB stick.
It's just like a hard drive. You've got to run fdisk on it:
fdisk /dev/sda
and create a single ext2 primary partition. Then
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:18:34 -0500
Michael Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> make sub-src sub-tools
That did the trick. Other QT4 "gotchas" include:
1. "make install" installs everything - and builds and installs
the (in my case, unwanted) examples :(
2.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:32:48 +0200
"Zsolt Udvari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I go home (in the afternoon), I'll say what is the solution
> (I don't remember).
Maybe I can beat you to it. ;) I received an email from TrollTech
after all. They said that we have to build the moc tool first.
S
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:52:56 +0530
"anirudh vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> qca-tls.cpp:457: error: invalid conversion
I never have tried it myself, but Google found this:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2006-May/059476.html
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:33:25 +
Tony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Was that Sylpheed Claws?
Yep, the differences between Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws got so great
that they just went ahead and forked the project. Claws is now a
GTK2 app. It's really amazing to see just how far they've
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:25:42 +
Tony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to upgrade Mozilla and Firefox. Having a quick look, this
> entails building Seamonkey, Mozilla's replacement (yes?).
>
> Anyone know of any problems doing this? Will I have to deinstall
> Mozilla? Any ideas
I know that if you use a more recent package and it breaks, you get
to keep both halves, but
I just ran into a problem that BLFS users will want to watch out for.
It seems that the latest version of freetype, 2.3.2, has a terrible
bug, if the bytecode interpreter is enabled (which most peop
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