On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Shawn wrote: > On March 8, 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> I suppose I must try that next monday. I will also try "us" >> XkbLayout. Until then I'm connected via ssh to the gentoo part and >> then chroot to the LFS part... >> BTW, I have a small(?) problem that may or may not be related. On >> booting, the console cursor (i.e. the blinking underscore) appears >> misplaced. I can login but the cursor is a few lines above. If I >> change to another VT and then come back, the cursor becomes normal. >> Is this a symptom of some known problem? >> > > Jorge: > I too came from gentoo. Like others, i used the /etc from gentoo as > examples to config my lfs/blfs system. Though this is not a bad idea as > far as giving you/me ideas as to how to config the system, a wholesale > copy from one system to the next will not work. The people at gentoo > have spent a lot of time customizing their distribution. They also Yes, that is true in general, but does it apply to the configuration of X? I didn't copy the contents of /etc, which is probably what differs most between distributions. But I think the contents of xorg.conf are just a xorg thing, unrelated to, say, baselayout. > customize the kernel. The most noticeable difference is in sysvinit. Well, I'm in the worst case scenario, because I don't use sysvinit!:) I'm trying runit as substitute to init. Till now, the system boots and the stage 2 services are running (currently only 5 gettys and gpm). No networking yet, because I don't know for sure how to approach the problem (it seems that it would spread over stage 1 and stage 2...) >
> > No ofence intended None taken, I assure you. >if this is obvious to you. It is just a friendly > reminder. :) > > Shawn > > Jorge -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
