PCMCIA utilities

2005-07-25 Thread David Lyne
Hi. I have built LFS 6.0 on an old Thinkpad (233MHz, 64MB). I have a PCMCIA network adaptor (which runs of a standard 3COM driver) which I would like to get working. However, I cannot find (either in lfs or blfs) any hints on getting pcmcia startup scripts or the cardmgr utilities installed.

Re: Problem with Jpeg images

2005-07-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:19 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: BLFS policy has always been to use whatever switches are necessary to build *without* optional dependencies, with a note in the book explaining what to do if they *are* installed. I am not trying to say what is right, or what is wrong.

Re: PCMCIA utilities

2005-07-25 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Hi. I have built LFS 6.0 on an old Thinkpad (233MHz, 64MB). I have a PCMCIA network adaptor (which runs of a standard 3COM driver) which I would like to get working. However, I cannot find (either in lfs or blfs) any hints on getting pcmcia

Re: Fcron mail output

2005-07-25 Thread benjamin stathos
--- S. Anthony Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I email a minute for the last 5 minutes. Sorry for being pedantic, but this is driving me nuts. I also receive emails. The problem is the output isn't in the email (in this case Hello). Was the Hello included in the emails you received? I have

Building RPM

2005-07-25 Thread Tarek Ghaleb
Hi all, I'm trying to build rpm-4.4.2 using the rpm hint. I'm using blfs cvs-2005-07-20 version of the book. I've built all required dependencies but when I run: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-posixmutexes --without-selinux \ --without-python --without-javaglue It fails

Re: Fcron mail output

2005-07-25 Thread benjamin stathos
--- Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I've found it easier to just figure out a workaround, instead of fighting something endlessly. Yes, and I agree, But I've not put much time into it yet. If no one had said it worked fine for them then I would have let it go instantly. As

Re: Fcron mail output

2005-07-25 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:49 -0700, benjamin stathos wrote: Yes, and I agree, But I've not put much time into it yet. If no one had said it worked fine for them then I would have let it go instantly. As it is either Anthony has done something unique in how he compiled fcron, or fcron is broken

Re: gPDF fonts

2005-07-25 Thread Uli Fahrenberg
Steve Brown, Jul 25, 12:12 -0500: [Declan:] Don't know the package but I presume it uses ghostscript. No. It's based on xpdf. No gs involved. I think I should clarify my problem. Really what I'm trying to do is get full TTF support in gpdf. The plain fonts seem to work OK, e.g. Arial,

Re: gPDF fonts

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Brown
No. It's based on xpdf. No gs involved. FWIW, gpdf prints fonts correctly and xpdf displays/prints fonts correctly. gpdf just won't display the fonts correctly. Also tried gpdf 2.8.3 with no luck. gpdf is being deprecated in favour of evince. BLFS currently does not give instructions for