Re: kernels

2007-08-12 Thread anirudh vij
Xen...though it it essentially a modifies linux kernel. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Help with beryl/compiz/compiz fusion

2007-07-29 Thread anirudh vij
hi, for me beryl compiled without problems on xfce and xorg 7.0.There were some problems with aiglx but the folks at opencompositing were very helpful and sorted it out. beryl works great with xfce,and ok with kde on my blfs install.i never tried it with gnome though. So far as i found out then,pro

Re: startx from livecd

2007-07-10 Thread anirudh vij
I forgot to add that i have intel 965G motherboard with integrated graphics card.For me,DRI did not work out of the box,and some settings in xorg.confhad to be manually tweaked.Maybe thats the cause of the problem. On 7/10/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have 6.2.0 stable

Re: startx from livecd

2007-07-10 Thread anirudh vij
g with configs Lauri > - Original Message ----- > From: "anirudh vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "BLFS Support List" > Subject: startx from livecd > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:01:09 +0530 > > > hi, > does startx work for anyone from the livecd? &

startx from livecd

2007-07-09 Thread anirudh vij
hi, does startx work for anyone from the livecd? Both the start.kde and start.xfce commands seem to exist,but startx exits with an error. -- Whatever you do will be insignificant.But it is very important that you do it. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www

Re: Smaller and smaller, linux on a floppy?

2007-07-09 Thread anirudh vij
hi, there was this post on lkml. http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/2e93ea341d45b22c though the post may not be relevant see this line : "" Is the boot-from-floppy code here still usable, even though booting from floppy is no longer supported? "" i may be quoting out of context.

Re: Error compiling W3m

2007-06-14 Thread ANIRUDH VIJ
"""das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce .""" hi, i've been around the mailing list for a while,and have seen all your mails ending as above.I've grown very curious about its meaning.Google translate says that it is german ,and means "the mark as tragedy, other time than farce" But

Re: libgsf build error

2007-04-21 Thread anirudh vij
hi dan, it was what you said $ pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0 gives -I/opt/GEHC/include/libxml2 seems a program i installed somehow changed the package-config settings for libxml2 On 4/20/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/20/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: "Terminal" exits immediately in xfce

2007-04-09 Thread anirudh vij
posted too soon.the problem was with vte which was crashing .Fixing vte fixed terminal. On 4/9/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I have xfce with all recommended packages installed.Everything works fine except for this small problem. When i open Terminal(the xfce emula

"Terminal" exits immediately in xfce

2007-04-09 Thread anirudh vij
hi, I have xfce with all recommended packages installed.Everything works fine except for this small problem. When i open Terminal(the xfce emulator)as normal user,it shuts down immediately after starting(i.e. i only see a flash). It works fine when i open it as superuser.I know that it seems like

Re: creating sym-links to fedora /usr/lib

2007-04-07 Thread anirudh vij
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 01:34 +0530, anirudh vij wrote: > i do not not have the disk space to build all of the "not found" > libs.Will creating symlinks to them in /usr/lib be good enough?or will > it screw up the system later? It *might* work. On the other hand, it might

creating sym-links to fedora /usr/lib

2007-04-06 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i recently wanted to install evince.i do not have gnome(i have xfce and kde).i installed all evince dependencies except libgnomeui. when i saw the (pretty long)dependency list of libgnomeui(since i dont have gnome) and the shortage of space on my system,i thought about using fedora's libgnome

ffmpegthumbnailer build error

2007-04-04 Thread anirudh vij
hi, I am getting this make error(this is needed by thunar's extra thumbnailer plugin to preview video files).It obvoisly needs an include file.Howeverthat file does'nt exist in fmpeg include dir.I have built the blfs version of ffmpeg.i cant get the latest subversion (college proxy does'nt allow s

Re: hal build error

2007-04-04 Thread anirudh vij
hi, whenever i get a make error,i always assume that i am doing something wrong :) great that it is'nt the case this time On 4/4/07, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:25:26 anirudh vij wrote: > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hackm

Re: hal build error

2007-04-04 Thread anirudh vij
/libdbus-glib-1.la /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so On 4/4/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/4/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i encountered the following build error in build of hal > > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/h

hal build error

2007-04-04 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i encountered the following build error in build of hal make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hackman/hal-0.5.7.1/tools' /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -o lshal lsh

Re: Firefox 2.0 with BLFS 6.2

2007-04-03 Thread anirudh vij
did you do --enable-default-toolkit=gtk ??.That also brought up lots of error for me. for me, the configure script could find out the right files without the option,but not if i passed it a default toolkit options. On 4/3/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, try --disable-canva

Re: Firefox 2.0 with BLFS 6.2

2007-04-03 Thread anirudh vij
hi, try --disable-canvas.As i said,i could'nt build 2.0 with it.I dont think you'll use it much anyway,though i may be wrong. does the --with-qt option work? On 4/3/07, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 00:08 -0700, Scott Czepiel wrote: > Thank you for your suggestions

Re: Firefox 2.0 with BLFS 6.2

2007-04-03 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i build firefox yesterday,and had to turn off --enable-canvas to build without problems. with the --enable-canvas option on i got some errors like x-headers not found(even though i passed in the --with-x-includes and --with-x-lib). and follow the blfs book so far as the .mozconfig file goes.I

unexpected crashes in Konqueror

2007-04-01 Thread anirudh vij
konqueror has been crashing regularly with segfaults for no apparent reason on my computer for some time now.these crashes only happen when i start kde as a underpriveledged user. i compiled kde as mentioned in the blfs-book except for the --enable-final configuration option. i know that that this

Re: adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
hmmif i strip libraries,will i be able to debug linked progs(of my own)? On 3/30/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry for the last empty mail.i pressed the send button inadvertently. > right now /usr is 1.7 gigs./home is 0.3 gigs,and other misc total to > around 0

Re: adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
sorry for the last empty mail.i pressed the send button inadvertently. right now /usr is 1.7 gigs./home is 0.3 gigs,and other misc total to around 0.7 gig. i was surprised to see the size of the /proc partition.this was around 850mb.Is this what we expect? On 3/30/07, anirudh vij <[EM

Re: adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
On 3/30/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the packages i was talking about are ITK(see itk.org) and VTK(see > vtk.org).ITK when compiled with examples alone takes more than 1.3 > gigs of space. > > On 3/30/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
7 at 12:16:30PM +0530, anirudh vij wrote: > > > hi, > > > i have a blfs system running on a 5 gig partition.around 2.5 gigs are > used up. > > > i am installing some packages that will take up about 1.7 gigs of > > > additional space. > > > so i wanted to

Re: Bash scripting worries

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
>the explanations in this "Guide" are curious hmmmcant say i agree. maybe you would like to try "Learning the bash shell" from o'reilly. if you want a pdf version,go to pdfchm.com,register and download. its pretty exhaustive,yet understandable. On 3/30/07, Matthias Feichtinger <[EMAIL PROTECTE

accessing usb port at low levell

2007-03-30 Thread anirudh vij
hi, This is a bit off topic.i dont even know whether i should be asking this here. Basically i am building a component that currently interfaces to the parallel port.I used the excellent parapin library for that.But parallel ports are disappearing and my comp is one of the few old ones here that ha

Re: adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-29 Thread anirudh vij
take a risk with my blfs system.it took too much time to build to destroy with a mount! On 3/30/07, Lauri Kasanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "anirudh vij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.

adding new partition to existing blfs system

2007-03-29 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i have a blfs system running on a 5 gig partition.around 2.5 gigs are used up. i am installing some packages that will take up about 1.7 gigs of additional space. so i wanted to add a new 12 gig partition to the system.this 12 gig partition is currently mounted as /home under ubuntu. how shoul

Re: BLFS 911

2007-03-29 Thread anirudh vij
hi, What i did was that i downloaded everything and burned it on a dvd which i mounted on my blfs system and copied everything in a directory. It was to my beleif that this would be enough and that i would be able to start the blfs manual from the beginning, as i started unpacking the packages an

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
ike seeing [FAIL] when the system is booting ;) On 3/28/07, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007 20:12:36 anirudh vij wrote: > that was the problem.dd was in /usr/bin > i moved dd to /bin.Thanks!! Good. However, all the coreutils bins are moved from /

Re: jdk (or: SUN assholeness)

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
quench the flames guys! On 3/26/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, jignesh gangani wrote: > Hi, > You are building your own distro and don't won't to build JDK and/or JRE > ?? What makes you think that?! > Sun has realeased the source code for JDK under vario

Re: alsa cannot detect sound device

2007-03-28 Thread anirudh vij
hi, alsa works now.Thanks !! On 3/28/07, jignesh gangani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I don't think you need to compile any modules or recompile the kernel. You have selected your sound card driver to build right into the kernel. That's why the modprobe says it can't find module snd.

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-27 Thread anirudh vij
that was the problem.dd was in /usr/bin i moved dd to /bin.Thanks!! On 3/27/07, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:09:25 anirudh vij wrote: > > hi, > > i did what alessandro suggested and here's the console output: > > >

trying build of PSI with google talk voice support

2007-03-27 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i was trying to build psi which can make voice calls to gtalk clients(using libjingle dont have gaim installed.i dont have kerberos either. i first built ortp-0.7.1,then qca,theni built the qca cyrus-sasl plugin. all went well till here. on trying to build qca-tls , i got a make error: /home

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-27 Thread anirudh vij
hi, result of that is: /sources/blfs-bootscripts-20060910sh-3.1$ ls -ld /var/tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Mar 27 19:05 /var/tmp/ On 3/27/07, WarrenHead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anirudh vij schreef: > > hi, > > i did what alessandro suggested and here

Re: random number generator?

2007-03-27 Thread anirudh vij
:21 kdecache-hackman drwx-- 6 rootroot 4096 Mar 27 16:19 kdecache-root what else can be wrong?? On 3/27/07, Alessandro Alocci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:35:34 anirudh vij wrote: > > > i compiled kde and i am right now using konqueror! > >

random number generator?

2007-03-26 Thread anirudh vij
hi, thanks guys.alsa works finally.the kernel had to be recompiled .(wish someone would write a kernel config guide for the common desktop!) i compiled kde and i am right now using konqueror! there are some problems though whenever i start linux ther's a warning could not start random number gene

Re: alsa cannot detect sound device

2007-03-26 Thread anirudh vij
the rest of the multimedia libraries? On 3/26/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/26/07, anirudh vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL is not set I think you probably need this one. If you have pciutils, you might want to check the output of

alsa cannot detect sound device

2007-03-26 Thread anirudh vij
hi, as per te blfs book, i installed alsa,mplayer et all. when i rebooted into the lfs system,mplayer played video perfectly. however,there was no sound. i tried doing alsaconf,but alsa could not find my sound card. i might have misconfigured my kernel.here is the relevant section from the kernel

Re: Shadow 4.0.18.1 and PAM default configs

2007-03-26 Thread anirudh vij
hi simon, i faced the same problem.the pam.d directory was corrupted and i could'nt log on.i solved it by booting into fedora,and then rewriting the files in the pam.d directory from the chroot environment. this is a much better solution though.rather prevent a problem than fix it!! On 3/26/07, S

gcc -4.0.3 : HUGE number of failures

2007-03-24 Thread anirudh vij
hi, i tried recompiling gcc as mentioned in the blfs book 6.2 .gcc was previously installed as per the lfs book 6.2. it compiled properly (i did not install GNAT because i did not want ada)(i did not configure for f95 and ada compilers in the --enable-languages option). but when i ran make -k che

restart solves collect2 error

2007-03-24 Thread ANIRUDH VIJ
sems i posted too soon.i exited from my chroot system.on reentering it gcc was able to compile dummy.c properly. i cleaned up the doxygen source tree.this time doxygen also compiled successfully. i am puzzled.why did the error happen the first time.and how did reentering the chroot sysytem solve

collect2: cannot find ld

2007-03-24 Thread ANIRUDH VIJ
ould'nt gcc be able to find ld automatically? is it dangerous to build packages as root, if the packages are those of the versions specified in the blfs -book?? -- Anirudh Vij EE05B077 Electrical Engineering Department IIT Madras. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-sup