What happened to the online BLFS dev book ?

2006-11-18 Thread Jerzy Goca
I have been waiting for the book for two days. I though that there must be some technical problems with the web site. But it lasts too long... :-( Regards JG -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: Updated Hints - Where to send them?

2006-11-18 Thread Matthias B.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:35:03 - spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following on from what Tushar wrote, and reading from the hint page To submit or update a hint, send an e-mail to the hint mailing list. From there it will be picked up by the hint maintainer, who will update the hint index and

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin Williams
Any ideas or suggestions, how I can get my keyboard working ? It's nothing to the hardware itself as the kbd works just perfect while in SuSE and winxp. Another interesting observation - when I browse using konqueror, the minus sign shows up as a strange box shaped character !! Thanks for any

vmware, PAM, and my production system

2006-11-18 Thread AC
Don't worry about shadow. Once I did reinstall pam with shadow and nothing happens (if you do not reboot between compinings). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: KDE-3.5.2 shows no applications

2006-11-18 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:11, Shawn wrote: Ensure these two env. variables are set properly. $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS - this points to files that define the layout of the main menu. Look for files with this naming convention *.menu. $XDG_DATA_DIRS - this points to files with the *.desktop

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/15/06, Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the kpowersave problem, an hour's search on the internet over how to configure powersave with dbus returned nothing appropriate. I revisited BLFS Book and read thru' the DBUS and HAL notes. Thats when I noticed the link to hints

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Shawn
Kevin: Good your sudo works now. To bad we don't know why. My /etc/sysconfig/console looks like this KEYMAP=us FONT=lat1-16 -m 8859-1 Did you review the section in the lfs book about configuring the linux console? Ok, here are some ideas for d-bus/hal debugging. D-Bus requires 2 sessions.

Re: What happened to the online BLFS dev book ?

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/17/06, Jerzy Goca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been waiting for the book for two days. I though that there must be some technical problems with the web site. But it lasts too long... :-( Sorry about that. The main server has a lot of issues where things randomly fail and shut down,

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/17/06, Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas or suggestions, how I can get my keyboard working ? It's nothing to the hardware itself as the kbd works just perfect while in SuSE and winxp. Another interesting observation - when I browse using konqueror, the minus sign shows up

Re: Updated Hints - Where to send them?

2006-11-18 Thread Matthias B.
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:30:48 +0100 Matthias B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:35:03 - spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following on from what Tushar wrote, and reading from the hint page To submit or update a hint, send an e-mail to the hint mailing list. From there