On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:15:40PM -0400, randd wrote: > > > Also, w respect to the modprobe bit - I verified on a Debian & a Fedora > system that they too were, in fact, using those two modules. I was not, > however, able to figure out for the life of me where they were being loaded > and-or what was causing them to be loaded; it doesn't appear to be happening > as a result of udev, or of anything else for that matter. Again, any ideas > or speculation would be welcome... > It's possible to force modules to be loaded - see section 7.4.3 of the LFS book. No doubt distros have their own individual ways of achieving this. I need OSS for realplayer, which is a real PITA, and on my latest box I ended up compiling it in instead of using a module - if something is normally loaded, I don't see any real benefit to making something a module. YMMV.
> Strange Character > ================= > In the help file pages (on an index page, generally between a number and a > description: eg., 1. Introduction) - and also inside of firefox - I'm seeing > a peculiar character I've never seen before. It's a small square with 4 > small characters inside it. It looks something like this (apologies in > advance for the ASCII art): > > + ----- + > | 2 0 | > | a 1 | > + ----- + > > I'm not certain what the four characters displayed inside the square are, > exactly; one of them does appear to be a 2 though. > Probably, whitespace. Gnome is good at using "correct" whitespace where most of us would just use a space. I first came upon this problem in the gnumeric docs when displayed in yelp. Turned out to be a fonts problem. In my case, adding dejavu (I'm at 2.19, but it's probably moved on since I last checked) solved this. More generally, take a look at gucharmap. This shows what you have, and for what you don't have it shows a numeric value in a square. Look at the 'common' glyphs, particularly U+2004 to U+200B, U+2028 to U+202F. > It doesn't seem to be replacing a character that ought to be there and > isn't; the best I can tell, everything that should be there is there. > LC_ALL is (and has been) set to "en_US.UTF-8"... Anyone seen this before? > [ snip the rest, I don't use gnome, other than a few applications. Well, that's what I keep telling myself, but in my current builds (gnome-2.20 for xorg-7.3) my gnome script has in excess of 70 packages, although I might yet drop some of them (I'm in an overdue refresh of what I build, and trying out a few things I didn't used to use). I definitely don't have a "default" browser. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
