Re: Bluetooth

2009-11-15 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:43:55 + dean talbot li...@dtxs.co.uk wrote: TheOldFellow theoldfel...@gmail.com wrote: There doesn't seem to be any hint of anything about how to set up a Bluetooth system with LFS, either in the BLFS book or Hints. Does anyone have any experience they can

Bluetooth

2009-11-14 Thread TheOldFellow
There doesn't seem to be any hint of anything about how to set up a Bluetooth system with LFS, either in the BLFS book or Hints. Does anyone have any experience they can share? R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

Re: Packages to update

2008-11-03 Thread TheOldFellow
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:03:19 +0100 Thomas Trepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My question to you - do you have the same experiences that the version upgrades are working ok? If so, I'll go for preparing patches on the book to reflect those updates. If not, a short note would be great!

Re: Q: comparison of Wiki pages and hints

2008-10-15 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:33:30 +0100 Jeremy Henty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:41:14PM +1300, Simon Geard wrote: ... the Wiki is mostly supplemental information for packages that are in the book - alternative configurations, optional dependencies, etc. Whereas

Re: Logitech Quickcam Ultra Vision

2008-02-17 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:05:44 -0700 Dennis J Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the Ultra Vision to work with LFS. I can compile uvcvideo and the kernel loads it, but ekiga, xawtv and camorama cannot connect to /dev/video1. /dev/video1 has 660 permissions and the video group.

Re: Courier-MTA: Some n00bie questions

2008-01-30 Thread TheOldFellow
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:03:59 + taipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 'minimal configuration' must be a relative term where MTA's are concerned - they _all_ seem to speak Klingon to my unschooled eye. Maybe that will prove to be an advantage - i have no prior prejudice for or against

Re: How to use blfs-tool and BLFS

2007-11-25 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:01:02 +0100 Heinrich Tomanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, my 1st LFS using jhalfs (LFS 6.3 / LiveCD r2130) is working fine. Now I trying to do the next step: using blf-tools and BLFS. But I think, I did not understand the idea behind these tools. To build LFS

Pseudo TTy's deprecated

2007-11-24 Thread TheOldFellow
Having just built a new LFS/Xorg using mostly book methods, I came to configure the kernel (2.6.23.8) and running oldconfig suggested that the BSD-style Ptys were deprecated - I seem to remember this has been the case for some while. However, I don't know of an X-terminal emulator that doesn't

Re: Pseudo TTy's deprecated

2007-11-24 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:53:53 +0500 Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: Having just built a new LFS/Xorg using mostly book methods, I came to configure the kernel (2.6.23.8) and running oldconfig suggested that the BSD-style Ptys were deprecated - I seem

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-11 Thread TheOldFellow
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:20:31 -0500 Chuck Rhode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:04:03PM +. My reply is below. One can hardly blame the new LFS'er for wanting to carry on in his nice new system. I'm not familiar with the ancient

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-11 Thread TheOldFellow
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: taipan67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] just wget for source-downloading, save a copy of the blfs-book locally, as html-pages can be read with 'less' - navigation is fiddly Less can read web pages? :-O Well

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-11 Thread TheOldFellow
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:57:45 -0700 Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, TheOldFellow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for making such a big stink. Hey, it was worth airing! (The Stink

Re: How to read BLFS in LFS

2007-10-11 Thread TheOldFellow
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:30:23 +0100 Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: Just don't get overstretched, you hear? R. Careful there boy, you could be mistaken for an American... ;-) Al Ah done learned it long ago. Y'all better believe it! And I done my time

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

2007-09-22 Thread TheOldFellow
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:04:02 -0700 Justin The Cynical [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older system running LFS 6.1 (currently using kernel 2.6.16.32 P4), and I am finding the on-board SiS900 network chip to be lacking. I have sitting around in my parts collection an HP J3171-60011 PCI

Re: Get free broadband internet from google!

2007-04-01 Thread TheOldFellow
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:54:33 +0200 Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm testing if it works now, I already put the cable down into my toilet and waiting for google to connect me :) I hope they work on sunday too :) I'll bet the service is crap. R. --

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 11:49, TheOldFellow wrote: The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: There is asciidoc. I don't know if it's powerful enough for our needs, but interesting. The kernel and git documentation is processed by asciidoc. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ Thanks Dan, My rant was worth the effort! A new discovery. Off to play with a new

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/1/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere snip You pretty much hit the nail on the head. In LFS, we don't have an unprivileged user

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Fn in X

2006-12-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alberto Hernando wrote: Hi. I've lost the ability to change to console or other user in X with Ctrl+Alt+Fn. snip Known bug. Upgrade xorg-server. I was about to ask the same thing! Upgrade to which version? R. --

Re: Ctrl+Alt+Fn in X

2006-12-17 Thread TheOldFellow
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:54:37PM -0700, Shawn wrote: Which keyboard data sets did you go with? 7.1 requires you to make a choice. Either xkbdata or xkbdesc. Myself I went with the new xkbdesc, and I have been problem free. See here:

Re: Is there a way to configure the gtk2 file chooser?

2006-05-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Miguel Bazdresch wrote: * Miguel Bazdresch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-28 20:09]: I recently installed Firefox 1.5, and it uses the new GTK2 file selection dialog. It hadn't bothered me before but now I find I cannot stand it. After some more searching, I finally found the perfect answer: how

Re: Suggestion for Additional X Window System Configuration chapter

2006-05-28 Thread TheOldFellow
Stefano Lampis wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On 5/28/06, DJ Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. The suggestion is correct (except if you use a name instead of gid, it must be quoted). This has been just 'known' for a long time. I don't know why it was never added to the dri section. Perhaps

Re: gcc-3.3.6 tail command fix.

2006-05-27 Thread TheOldFellow
Randy McMurchy wrote: linux23dragon wrote these words on 05/26/06 20:12 CST: I have a lot of old pre-compiled programs for games and other software that won't be updated to today's standards. Too bad. Sounds to me as though it's time to update your software inventory to modern standards. :-)

Webcast reception

2006-05-24 Thread TheOldFellow
How do I go about receiving Webcasts from the philistine organisations that insist on using Microsoft technology (like our tax-payer funded www.parliamentlive.tv of the UK pariliament). I am getting fed up of seeing Firefox saying that it hasn't got the plugin, and when I look at the source

Re: Webcast reception

2006-05-24 Thread TheOldFellow
Randy McMurchy wrote: TheOldFellow wrote these words on 05/24/06 08:16 CST: Any pointers would be much appreciated. Hi Richard, I have found that the MPlayer plugin for Firefox works really good on almost anything I've thrown at it. Of course, you have to install MPlayer first. http

Re: Webcast reception

2006-05-24 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 5/24/06, TheOldFellow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about receiving Webcasts from the philistine organisations that insist on using Microsoft technology (like our tax-payer funded www.parliamentlive.tv of the UK pariliament). Richard, The totem mozilla plugin

Re: Webcast reception

2006-05-24 Thread TheOldFellow
Ag Hatzimanikas wrote: Yes works great here.By the way is very good source to hear proper english. :) and I'm looking for help with my Ancient Greek too. My textbook says that it's pronounced like English. The textbook was, however, written in the 1930's by an Englishman, so I don't

Re: question about librsvg

2006-05-21 Thread TheOldFellow
Archaic wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:48:21PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: Openbox is worth a look too. http://icculus.org/openbox/ It looks nice, but it suffers from the same problem that caused me to leave fluxbox: no panel or taskbar. I use pypanel for this with openbox3. --

Re: Question about Fcron-2.9.5.1

2005-07-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Jean-Philippe Mengual wrote: Hi, Could someone explain to me why, in the book blfs, is Fcron-2.9.5.1 replace cr¨ontab I used on Debian? Cannot I install crontab? Why replacement? I'm not sure of the original reasons, but I use fcron because it seems better than Vixie Cron at handling machines

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-06-25 Thread TheOldFellow
Peter B. Steiger wrote: Well, the --disable-profilelocking didn't have any effect; FF still complains that my profile is already in use when I click on a link in email (Evolution) while FF is already open. When that didn't work I also tried adding --enable-profilesharing, but it looks like

Re: NOTIC TO WHOEVER KEEPS SENDING PAYPAL LETTERS

2005-06-07 Thread TheOldFellow
Steven C. wrote: This is a notice to whoever is sending this that I will be reporting your Ip address to PayPal's fraud department. Defrauding users to disclose personal information or to masquerade a company is a felony and punishable by federal law. Which federation was that then?

Re: OpenOffice 1.9 - beta late than never

2005-06-05 Thread TheOldFellow
Peter B. Steiger wrote: Has anyone successfully installed the beta 2.0 (1.9) OpenOffice.org? I can't use the binary because it requires RPM now, which I don't use, and the blfs patches were written for the stable 1.4 version so I'm gettingt all kinds of build errors. I currently have 1.1

Re: Installing the Psycho's software

2005-05-27 Thread TheOldFellow
Declan Moriarty wrote: Are there any reasonably recent instructions for how to hack djb's stuff into shape? I refer to daemontools, ucspi-tcp and dnscache. I don't want to sprout directories like /package or /service, but I would like them reasonably the shape of a normal program, in the

Re: Passwd segfaults

2005-05-03 Thread TheOldFellow
On 03/05/05, Greg Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: I built Linux-PAM with cracklib using the cracklib wordset, all according to BLFS-svn yesterday. Rebuilt shadow too, and checked Segmentation fault Lemme guess... you're using shadow-4.0.8 ? No, 4.0.7. I only

Passwd segfaults

2005-05-02 Thread TheOldFellow
I've just built a new LFS using the Cross-LFS method. Most things seem to be very stable, but I've got two inexplicable problems. I'll start separate threads on them though. I built Linux-PAM with cracklib using the cracklib wordset, all according to BLFS-svn yesterday. Rebuilt shadow too, and

Re: gcc 4.0?

2005-04-16 Thread TheOldFellow
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: Is there any standard way of doing such things, some sort of sandbox technique that I may not be aware of? Any advice greatly appreciated... I've generally had good results with '--prefix=/opt/gcc-4.0.0-20050410'. BTW: You'll have to

Re: lp module at boot

2005-03-11 Thread TheOldFellow
Andrew Benton wrote: Ilja wrote: Hi, Does anybody know how I can get the lp (parport printer) module to load at boottime? I thought that the kernel should detect it automatically, but thats not the case. I thought if you stuck a feather in the ground it would grow a chicken. To load a module on