Re: [lfs-support] Solid Red Block Cursor in TTY (Terminfo)

2013-10-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Saturday 19 October 2013 01:55:57 Esben Stien wrote: > Esben Stien writes: > > I'm trying to make my cursor a solid red block.. > > Nobody has any idea or any pointers? KDE4 -> system settings -> workspace appearence -> cursor Theme ??? -- Dr.-Ing. Edga

Re: [lfs-support] Boot Issues

2013-09-26 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
t; unquote I used it. You do not need a PC with EFI support, however, your kernel must have " EFI GUID partition table support" compiled in. And you will need GPT ( GUID partition tables ). Good luck, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

2013-04-11 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
ge was "cannot find PARTUUID=blah". But the booting was OK after introducing the initramfs. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

2013-04-10 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
er I introduced an initramfs, the job was done. So far, I solved my problem. I do not see dificulties using an initramfs. But perhaps somebody may explain this behaviour. Again, thank you very much, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfr

Re: [lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

2013-04-06 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
dev rules defined up to now related to partitions or to the boot procesws itself ! Thank you very much, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] util-linux 2.22 does not accept uuid's in fstab

2013-04-05 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
ix this, but it excludes also the gdisk activities. Thanks in advance, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] System settings - network connections

2013-01-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
is enabled in the kernel. Is enabled > BTW., what means "WLAN Interface unavailaible" ? nm-applet is showing me the same data for wlan0 as the udev-rule "70-persistent-net.rules". So not availaible can only mean "already in use by someone" or "no permission

Re: [lfs-support] next step wireless

2012-11-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
hat is the reason for supplicant. You are right, your instructions are OK for a communication. However, Dave wanted to use WICD, what gives more elasticity in running in different places with different encryptions. I hope, I am not wrong. To my experience, WICD is a great tool. Edgar -- Dr.

Re: [lfs-support] next step wireless

2012-11-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
NS. This requires PRINTIP="yes". PRINTALL="no" - ONBOOT="no" is needed to be able to start WICD The last two scripts taken, slighty modifyed, from the BLFS Book. I hope these notes will help you in some way to put your wifi connection to work.

Re: [lfs-support] next step wireless

2012-11-27 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
issue if you need advice. I am working with WICD and DHCP. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Grub 2.00 questions again ... sorry

2012-09-06 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
s not the right way to handle this issue. We have to learn also to deal with uneasy comments, with patience. I do not like at all the Alice in the Wonderland method: "heads off". Consider it. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [blfs-support] Problems porting a BLFS System

2012-03-21 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
--- The driver "evdev" is not mentioned, neither in Xorg.0.log nor in dmesg. Thank you very much for all your help, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-support] No Phonon backends listed in system settings

2012-01-16 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
o make links for all of them. I wonder, if the book instruction to install phonon in $QTDIR is so lucky and if it would not be better to install in $KDE4DIR instead ? -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ

[lfs-support] Little issue with BLFS ยง 10 libiodbc-3.52.7

2011-12-25 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
vel-aleph0/specs/libiodbc.spec Regards, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers GPG Key ID:AD5C6F70 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: AllowEmtpyInput

2010-10-29 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
l release included in the book. (development ) Again, thank you very much, extended to Stuart and to Linux Fan for their comments ! Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

AllowEmtpyInput

2010-10-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
Hi Bruce, I know, this issue is a "little" the field of BLFS. I am trying to get xorg working, a not to difficult task in former times. Now, testing the xorg.conf.new, I get a screen, with a dirty "X" on it, but no way to close it again. strg-alt-backspace is ignored, also the mouse. Cold rebo

/usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt

2010-10-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
Hi, accidentaly I removed protocol.txt from /usr/lib/xorg. I do not know for what this file is needed and how to rebuild it. Rebuilding xorg server perhaps ? Thanks in advance for a hint. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. EdgarAlwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://w

Re: LFS-GMP-5.0.1

2010-10-25 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
s also interesting for me, as I had not done it before. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS-GMP-5.0.1

2010-10-25 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
s, I did it twice, as I feared maybe to have forgotten to install after make. It was not a major problem, as I could provide the files to gcc. But something seems to be a little misplaced in gcc's makefiles ? Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/li

LFS-GMP-5.0.1

2010-10-24 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
you might want to check it ? Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:46:26 +0200 "Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers" wrote: I would like to make a little report in between. At first, I realized, that the kernel of my host system was supporting ext4 file systems but not ext2 and ext3. As grub.cfg asks for ext2, I thought, this could be

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
In this case, set root would not be neccessary, as my statement linux (hd0,6)/boot/lfskernel-2.6.34 root=/dev/sda6 rw would do the job. In my case - I am not excluding errors from my part-, I got, as I wrote, an error message "not an assigment" Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar A

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-19 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
Much more, as I crashed my box during this efforts and had to do a big lot of work until I repaired it. Could it be, that grub2 is not already mature enough, and distros are still waiting ? Regards, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-sup

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-16 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
ect ? > > > Indeed, which is why I suggested you try something like: ( sophisticated, for non english natives: "indeed", does it mind "it is not correct" ? or does it mind it is ? ;-) ) > Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-16 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
mounted on /mnt/lfs and you want to use ext4: > I think I will give it a try. I cannot understand the behaviour of my grub2 ( version 1.98 ), besides that the ext4 partition is corrupted. I will report. Thank you very much for your help Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linu

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-15 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
a dd. What would you suggest ? Thanks for your assistance, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-14 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
intending to enter the ext4 partition. Other partitions on both disks are booted normaly. > > ISTR grub's ext2 handles ext3, and might not need an insmod. > I tryed also insmod ext2 and insmod ext3. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-14 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:50:34 -0400 linux fan wrote: > This one said kernel must have ext4 support. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg00190.html As I wrote, my kernel was build with ext4 support ;-) Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Grub2 and ext4

2010-10-13 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
2.6.34 I did not find anything googling. Thanks in advance, Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: some issues with grub

2010-07-08 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:23:02 -0400 Chris Staub wrote: > On 07/07/2010 01:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > > > >> 2.) the configuration file example given talks about "Be careful not > >> to change the 'exec tail' line a

some issues with grub

2010-07-07 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
s missing in the example ? Thanks a lot for comments. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page