Re: Is it possible to change the text size in a non-gui environment?

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, Tks for your advice. - snip - Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200 +-- 4 bits |? ? 0x302 ??? ? 8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303

Re: Is it possible to change the text size in a non-gui environment?

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, What will be the code for (1280x1024) (32 bits) = ? My graphic card supports 32 bits color. Might not be supported by the vesa driver. There's some more information in the linux documentation in Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. It doesn't say anything about that particular mode,

Re: Is it possible to change the text size in a non-gui environment?

2006-05-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi thorsten Tks for your advice. a shorter way is perl -e 'print 0x315' or python -c 'print 0x315' Both of them work here with the same output as the command line suggested by Dan previously. B.R. SL -- ___ Play 100s of games

Re: Is it possible to change the text size in a non-gui environment?

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Simon and folks, With vga=ask you can get more information when you start the computer. adding vga=ask on /boot/grub/grub.conf At boot it asked to input Mode 0 0F01 80x25 1 0F01 80x50 2 0F02 80x43 3 0F03 80x28 4 0F04 80x30 etc. Haven't got much idea which

Re: Booting Lfs-Version udev_update-20060301 from usb drive.

2006-03-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi randhir, On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 19:56 +, randhir phagura wrote: I intend booting the new lfs system from the host system. The host system has hda (the main hard drive), hdc (the dvd-rom) and the IBM Microdrive mounted on SanDisk adapter connected to USB port of the host. This drive

To execute commands at boot

2005-09-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I need to evoke following commands at boot; modprobe snd-pcm-oss modprobe snd-pcm-oss amixer set Master 80% unmute amixer set CD 80% unmute amixer set PCM 80% unmute amixer set Line 80% unmute I could not find rc.local nor boot.local. So I put them on /etc/sysconfig/rc. It serves my

Re: alsa-oss installation - collect2: cannot find `ld' SOLVED

2005-09-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, --- Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm sure a real root is available on your system. There's 6 consoles and he can surely log into one of them. That said, the problem was not running ldconfig, right? There was nothting wrong on ldconfig nor on the installing

Re: alsa-oss installation - collect2: cannot find `ld' SOLVED

2005-09-15 Thread Stephen Liu
hI Declan, PROBLEM SOLVED. First of all rerun ldconfig. (hint from 30 secs with google). Have you tried running it? ld should work, and should return an error if called with no arguments. BTW, it doesn't say ld isn't there. It says collect2 can't find it. It's always worth reading

Re: Printing problem - installing HP driver

2005-09-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, Tks for your advice. snip I can't tell whether or not you've been successful getting your printer to work. The printer is working fine on FC3, the host, on the same box. It also works on WinXP installed on a mobile HD mounted on this box. I'm not sure of all the capabilities of a

Re: alsa-oss installation - collect2: cannot find `ld'

2005-09-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, Tks for your advice. First of all rerun ldconfig. (hint from 30 secs with google). Have you tried running it? ld should work, and should return an error if called with no arguments. I think I may work around the problem either by adding --disable-cxx on configuration OR to

alsa-oss installation - collect2: cannot find `ld'

2005-09-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, On installing alsa-oss-1.0.9 problem was encountered on make install Steps performed as follows; $ tar -jxf alsa-oss-1.0.9.tar.bz2 $ cd alsa-oss-1.0.9 $ ./configure make . creating libossredir.la (cd .libs rm -f libossredir.la ln -s ../libossredir.la libossredir.la) make[1]:

Problem on building the Enigmail extension

2005-09-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I completed installation of Thunderbird-1.0.6 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/xsoft/other.html#thunderbird on BLFS 6.1, not on chroot environment. Thunderbird can be started to receive and send emails. Installation went through smoothly except building the Enigmail

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, Tks for your advice. Try the kernel headers... Are your old new systems running from the same kernel? Same kernel headers installed? Presuming your old system is a previous LFS,The other big differences is the version of everything you use. I'm now working on FC3, the Host. #

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, Further to my late posting, I still retain the original kernel which was first built on LFS 6.1, making BLFS 6.1 dual boot. I'll boot to the original kernel to install following package. Remark:- I tried to install xpdf-3.01 on BLFS 6.1

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Rainer, Tks for your advice. (Remark: still working on FC3, the Host) bash-3.00$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \ --enable-opi --enable-multithreaded --enable-wordlist make ./configure: line 88: conf3448.sh:

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install' (SOLVED, Xpdf 3.00 installed)

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, Further to my posting re installing lesstif - Xpdf, Xpdt-3.00 has beeninstalled on BLFS 6.1, not on chroot environment. Both ./configure and make install went through without complaint. Now Xpdf started by running; $ xpdf reading .xpdf files. I think mixing versions being

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Declan, Tks for your advice. snip You appear to be typing make enter install enter. This is wrong. Sorry, No. make rootdir=/usr/share/doc/lesstif-0.94.4 install is one line. I copied/pasted it from; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/lesstif.html the word wrap function of

Download Xpdf tarball

2005-09-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/pst/xpdf.html I tried to download Xpdf from; ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/ and could not find xpdf-3.00.tar.gz there. I found xpdf-3.01-linux.tar.gz xpdf-3.01-linux.tar.gz.sig xpdf-3.01.tar.gz xpdf-3.01.tar.gz.sig I suppose

Re: Download Xpdf tarball

2005-09-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Randy, Tks for your URLs. I have the new version Xpdf tarball download. BR SL --- Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this instead: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/packages.html where it will tell you to refer to:

Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, The BLFS 6.1 is now running smoothly, dual boot with FC3 Host, including Internet browsing, twm window-manager, etc. I tried to install lesstif and met following problem. Steps performed as follows; lesstif-0.94.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources# tar jxf lesstif-0.94.4.tar.bz2 [EMAIL

Re: Installing lesstif-0.94.4 problem - No rule to make target `install'

2005-09-04 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Re-did it as follow; bash-3.00$ rm -Rf /sources/lesstif-0.94.4 bash-3.00$ cd /sources/ bash-3.00$ tar -jxf lesstif-0.94.4.tar.bz2 bash-3.00$ cd lesstif-0.94.4 bash-3.00$ patch -Np1 -i ../lesstif-0.94.4-testsuite_fix-1.patch ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-debug \

Re: Problems with passwd after reinstalling shadow

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi snip Everything seemed to work good and I am quite sure that I did everything like it was described. The only little problem I noticed was that the pam.d directory was not created by the install of pam, I also ran into the same situation before, or even worse, on reinstalling

Re: Problem on installing Xorg

2005-08-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Just see if the symlink is there. Do ls -l /usr/bin/cc. If it is, and it points to gcc, then run ldd /usr/bin/gcc. root:/sources$ ls -l /usr/bin/cc ls: /usr/bin/cc: No such file or directory root:/sources$ find / -name cc /tools/bin/cc

Re: No rule to make target `install'

2005-08-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Installing GLib-1.2.10 problem No way to tell without seeing the last few lines of your make output. Did it compile with no errors? I re-run it. Followings are steps performed with output; root:/$ cd /sources/glib-1.2.10 root:/sources/glib-1.2.10$ patch -Np1 -i

Re: No rule to make target `install' - problem solved

2005-08-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, Was the patch command spread out over 2 lines, or is that just the result of the email text wrapping? Also, did you remove the source tree and unpack it again? Removed the source and re-extracted the tarball. Steps performed as follows; After removing the source tree, root:/$

X libraries or include files not found - gtk+-1.2.10

2005-08-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, compiling gtk+-1.2.10 failed X libraries or include files not found GLib-1.2.10, libtiff-3.7.3, libjpeg-6b, and X.org-6.8.2 already installed. Step performed and output root:/sources/gtk+-1.2.10$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make checking for

GTK and GTK2

2005-08-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I suppose if having following package installed; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/gtk2.html Chapter 26. X Libraries GTK+-2.6.7 (GTK2) I don't need to install GTK http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/x/gtk.html Chapter 26. X Libraries GTK+-1.2.10 If I'm