Re: MPlayer woes

2006-06-29 Thread Warren Wilder
rblythe schreef: This is exactly what happens when I try to use mplayer (gmplayer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmplayer MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-4.0.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team The mplayer userlist is filled with questions like this and although it is great software, it does require some effort from the use

Re: Still Vmware

2006-06-25 Thread Warren Wilder
Nicolas FRANCOIS schreef: Le Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:53:48 1000 Duncan Baynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : It is part of the vmware package. you should start your vm client, load up windows within it and then check the vmware menus, looking for "Install VMWare tools" or something similiar. Thi

Re: problem with internet-site

2006-06-25 Thread Warren Wilder
Uwe Kramer schreef: Hello, since a few days I have a strange problem with the site http://german.imdb.com/, it only tells me "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". It worked before without a problem, but since a few days, see above. It doesn't matter which browser I try, konqueror or firefox or lin

sidetracking dhcp request, or lowering boot delay

2006-06-24 Thread Warren Wilder
I have a dhcp enabled system, which occasionely doesn't have the network cable plugged in. ( silly, but true ) At boot time, the dhcp request halts the system for several seconds, which is gradually getting annoying. Can I remove the dhcp request from the boot process to some other process, which

Re: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-29 Thread Warren Wilder
Dan Nicholson schreef: On 5/25/06, Warren Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I still cannot boot though. Update right now to 2.6.15 or 2.6.16. That worked a treat, using 2.6.16.15 right now. But, there is something missing still. I've got a /dev/bugreport for you. UDEV_LOG=3

Re: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-24 Thread Warren Wilder
Dan Nicholson schreef: On 5/22/06, Warren Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed that a lot of emails about DBUS and HAL are passing by lately. (Currrently I have udev as well as hotplug working for me.) I picked up that HAL and DBUS are great for detecting hotpluggable medi

Re: Was: Language setting - Probably missed something

2006-05-23 Thread Warren Wilder
Georgina Joyce schreef: 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. Apologi

BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal

2006-05-22 Thread Warren Wilder
I've noticed that a lot of emails about DBUS and HAL are passing by lately. (Currrently I have udev as well as hotplug working for me.) I picked up that HAL and DBUS are great for detecting hotpluggable media, creating a desktop icon, mounting them as the device that they are and such. Basically g

Re: removing usb messages at boot time

2006-05-18 Thread Warren Wilder
S. Anthony Sequeira schreef: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:11 , Warren Wilder wrote: When my system is booting, I see several messages from EHCI, OHCI and UHCI. They are ugly, in a way. Try adding quiet to your kernel options in grub kernel /comet-kernel.2.6.16.11 root=/dev/hde2 vga=794 rw

Re: which running process uses shared library x?

2006-05-13 Thread Warren Wilder
Tapio Aura Kelloniemi schreef: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:36:03PM , Warren Wilder wrote: How do you check whether any of the running processes is using the shared library xxx.so? Well, perhaps I'm misunderstunding something, but I have assumed that when a shared library is loaded

which running process uses shared library x?

2006-05-13 Thread Warren Wilder
A question that came to me while reading a different thread: Randy McMurchy schreef: alberto hernando wrote these words on 05/13/06 05:35 CST: Hi. Do I need to uninstall gtk -2.8.10 before installing 2.8.12? Usually not, but you *should* ensure that you are not running any program that u

encrypted swap hint software suspend

2006-05-09 Thread Warren Wilder
I have followed the encrypted swap hint: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/eswap.txt Now that I have it working, I am wondering how I can test whether it really is working. In other words, how can I read data from the swap partition by the aid of say, a running live-cd or som

Re: Hello Please help

2006-05-08 Thread Warren Wilder
himanshu pahuja schreef: Hello All, I have almost completed constructing BLFS Ver 6.1 , now I am looking to burn the constructed system in CD so that I can use it as a distribution on my different PCs . So please , can anyone help me out ? Thanks in advance. Please Reply ASAP Himanshu Pahu

compiling nx (as described in the hint) gives undefined references

2006-05-04 Thread Warren Wilder
I am compiling these packages from the site nomachine.com nx-X11-1.5.0-21 nxagent-1.5.0-112 nxcomp-1.5.0-80 nxcompext-1.5.0-20 nxproxy-1.5.0-9 nxviewer-1.5.0-15 nxdesktop-1.5.0-78 nxscripts-1.5.0-11 These are the same versions as in the hint. I have executed the NX patch and modified the configu

Re: cpu frequency scaling (solved)

2006-05-02 Thread Warren Wilder
Ken Moffat schreef: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:28:35PM , Warren Wilder wrote: I have a question about scaling the frequency of the cpu clock cycle. This isn't in the book, but I can't find much info on it otherwise. *cough* I did write a hint about it, *Rubbing Google'

cpu frequency scaling

2006-05-02 Thread Warren Wilder
I have a question about scaling the frequency of the cpu clock cycle. This isn't in the book, but I can't find much info on it otherwise. It is/should be possible to set the cpu frequency governor in userspace. This can be done with the cpufrequtils package from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/

Re: info about HLFS

2006-04-27 Thread Warren Wilder
sacarde schreef: Hi, have somebody experimented installation of HardeningLFS ? Is it interesting, or usefull, difficult or what ? thankyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I have. I am in the post-HLFS stage, so to speak. It is more difficult, but I'm sure I am learning a lot more in the process.

Re: ffmpeg compilation

2006-04-26 Thread Warren Wilder
Randy McMurchy schreef: Warren Wilder wrote these words on 04/24/06 12:01 CST: I have a linker problem with ffmpeg. I've read over your two messages and I didn't see, nor can I determine what version of FFMpeg you are trying to build. The version in the book is 100 years old in O

Re: ffmpeg compilation

2006-04-25 Thread Warren Wilder
Roger Merchberger wrote: Rumor has it that Warren Wilder may have mentioned these words: [snippety] ./configure ...snip... --enable-vorbis ^ [snip] ./libavformat/libavformat.so: undefined reference to `ogg_sync_init' [snip] Any tips are we

ffmpeg compilation

2006-04-24 Thread Warren Wilder
I have a linker problem with ffmpeg. I am compiling with the instructions from the developer version of the BLFS book. This version has an extra sed command and two patches. I am using these compilation flags: CFLAGS="-s -march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" a

ffmpeg compilation

2006-04-24 Thread Warren Wilder
I have a linker problem with ffmpeg. I am compiling with the instructions from the developer version of the BLFS book. This version has an extra sed command and two patches. I am using these compilation flags: CFLAGS="-s -march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" a

qt compile question

2006-04-19 Thread Warren Wilder
A tiny question about the Qt compilation. Perhaps I'm just not reading the book right, but that particular page is a bit confusing. (I have opted for the /usr compile variant by the way.) I compiled and made Qt succesfully. I tested it with the 'Hello World' Qt tutorial, but it would not compil

Question about the book: tcpwrappers and xinetd

2006-02-24 Thread Warren Wilder
Slight confusion here. In the tcpwrappers page I read the following. == Configuring Tcpwrappers As the root user, perform the following edits on the /etc/inetd.conf configuration file: finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.fin

Re: gpm and ps2

2006-02-24 Thread Warren Wilder
I seem to have a problem with gpm listening to my ps2 mouse. I can correctly use a serial mouse so gpm is working fine. I am using udev of course and can confirm that a kernel is registering the ps2 mouse through a rule. I have created two kernels and have found that gpm and the ps2 mouse are

gpm and ps2

2006-02-24 Thread Warren Wilder
I seem to have a problem with gpm listening to my ps2 mouse. I can correctly use a serial mouse so gpm is working fine. I am using udev of course and can confirm that a kernel is registering the ps2 mouse through a rule. I have created two kernels and have found that gpm and the ps2 mouse are