XFree86 Questions

2007-03-01 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Am trying to install XFree86 on my P-III laptop. I have installed it before and have done this once now on top of my new lfs-svn-020070217. The following questions: First Question: I used the default installation instructions as given in the Book (Version: blfs-svn-20070219). While the

Re: Keyboard stops working

2007-03-01 Thread Tijnema !
On 2/28/07, Barius Drubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 23:15, Tijnema ! wrote: Thanks anyway, and please have a look at my ps -A result. First weird thing: 1882 tty2 00:00:13 X 1936 tty1 00:00:00 agetty 1937 ?00:00:00 agetty 1938 tty3 00:00:00

Re: XFree86 Questions

2007-03-01 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/1/07, randhir phagura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Am trying to install XFree86 on my P-III laptop. I have installed it before and have done this once now on top of my new lfs-svn-020070217. The following questions: First Question: I used the default installation instructions as given in

XFCE 4.4 up and running

2007-03-01 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
I have succesfully installed XFCE 4.4. It's up and running fine. So far I've discovered these issues: - If you want desktop icons (more than just icons from minimized apps) you need to have dbus installed. I tried with dbus-1.0.2 and dbus-glib-0.73. In the BLFS book is an old dbus version. The new

Re: Keyboard stops working

2007-03-01 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/1/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/07, Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/28/07, Barius Drubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second thing: 1927 ?00:00:00 smbd 1932 ?00:00:00 smbd 1919 ?00:00:00 winbindd 1928 ?00:00:00 winbindd

Re: DVD Playback problems

2007-03-01 Thread Shawn
On March 1, 2007, Nik Davis wrote: You can always see whether this key is available by just querying: $ sysctl dev.rtc.max-user-freq dev.rtc.max-user-freq = 1024 -- Dan that gives me the same message: error: dev.rtc.max-user-freq is an unknown key or :P cat

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Shawn
On March 1, 2007, Brian wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. If running 'make' as root could (accidentally? maliciously?)

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/1/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. If running 'make' as root could (accidentally?

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread Shawn
On March 1, 2007, Brian wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere (though not in LFS), but I can't find a full explanation. If running 'make' as root could (accidentally? maliciously?)

Re: Keyboard stops working

2007-03-01 Thread Arnie Stender
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tijnema ! wrote: On 3/1/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/07, Tijnema ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/28/07, Barius Drubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second thing: 1927 ?00:00:00 smbd 1932 ?00:00:00 smbd

Re: MPlayer compile errors.

2007-03-01 Thread Arnie Stender
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jignesh gangani wrote: Hi, There are four patches for mplayer. One of which allows you to compile Mplayer on GCC-4.1. Try applying the patches. You can get this patches on CBLFS. You have to download another version of MPlayer. Try

Re: MPlayer compile errors.

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/1/07, Arnie Stender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, Well, I took your suggestion and pulled down the 1.0rc1. I didn't apply any of the patches in the book and it compiled with quite a few warnings. Well, at least it built, so that's good. After the install I started it from

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-01 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/1/07, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please could someone spell out the reason for building software as an unprivileged user? This is recommended in the BLFS book and elsewhere snip You pretty much hit the nail on the head. In LFS, we don't have an unprivileged user

Re: XFree86 Questions

2007-03-01 Thread randhir phagura
Hi Tijnema !, Well, that is not exactly the answer to my question. The question is how does one install 'Xf86' into /usr/X11R6? I want to install it there but there is nothing shown in the 'configure/install' commands given in the book, which can facilitate this. The second question is obvious: