Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 6/5/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's my intention, although I want to test it a little more thoroughly first. Possibly a hint for LFS might be a good start, if anyone here wants to try it out? I wish I had a

Re: Gnome and libexec path

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:00 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: To make a long story short (too late!) what I finally realized after blowing the weekend on this project was that for whatever reason, Evolution (and possibly the Gnome panel) doesn't like having libexec processes in the /bin folder.

Re: xorg-7.1 and nvidia

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 21:13 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:08 +, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: Hi I'm on my way through BLFS-svn-2006-05-28 and Xorg7.1. I have an nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card. On my previous built (~March 2005) with Xorg7.0 the proprietary

Re: Xkb error

2006-06-06 Thread Filip Bartmann
It's caused because libxklavier isn't prepared for modular X.org. Libxklavier search fo xkb in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb, which has been moved in new modular X.org to /usr/share/X11/xkb, and libxklavier, doesn't support new layout of this

Re: Xkb error

2006-06-06 Thread Filip Bartmann
In appendix is two patches from Fedora, which resolve this problem. Filip Bartmann This patch is generated from running autogen.sh after applying the upstream patch to configure.in (see libxklaver-2.1-xkb-path.patch) and then removing the portions which are not relevant. These include changes to

Re: Xkb error

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/6/06, Filip Bartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After applying this patches, libxklavier, must be configured, witch this switches: - ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xkb-base=/usr/share/X11/xkb --with-xkb-bin-base=/usr/bin

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/6/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I wish I had a laptop. I'd love to give it a spin. I think Jeremy Utley uses NetworkManager (saw him mention it in the IRC logs). Maybe he can test drive it. Jeremy, do you read this

Re: Xkb error

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/6/06, Filip Bartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In appendix is two patches from Fedora, which resolve this problem. Thanks for looking into this, Filip. These patches are already in libxklavier-2.2. We should get that in the book. I'll open a bug. Oh wait, there already is one. Randy,

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

2006-06-06 Thread Angel Tsankov
Then I executed pppd eth0 which produced: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.3 Then I ping'ed an Internet host by IP address and got: ping: sendto: Network is unreachable Can someone help me setup a PPPoE connection using only the PPP package?

Re: ping command

2006-06-06 Thread Justin The Cynical
Randy McMurchy wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote these words on 06/05/06 05:14 CST: I don't think that the OP would be able to get to a web site if the DNS was incorrect. It sounds like the proxy isn't passing ICMP traffic. Assuming somebody only has one PC these days is probably an