Matthew Burgess wrote:
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of
LFS 6.1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades
(including Linux-2.6.11.12, GCC-3.4.3 and Glibc-2.3.4) and security
fixes (including the recently disclosed zlib vulnerability). It
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I would like to announce Andy Benton as a new BLFS Editor. Andy has been
a long time participant in the BLFS project and brings a lot of skill
and enthusiasm to the project.
Please help me in welcoming Andy to the team.
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This is a request for donations.
The LFS server is creaking along poorly. It is a 750MHz/512MB Ram/2 x
9G SCSI system. It frequently has high load factors and out of memory
problems.
Right now, Gerard is funding the server hosting fees from the meager
PayPal donations he receives and
We have a problem with SPAM on the BLFS lists. I am proposing that we
'close' the lists to non-subscribed members. The main issue is that
list members who post from multiple email accounts will have to
subscribe for each account.
Non-member email would go to /dev/null
Before I do this, I am
I have closed the BLFS lists to non-subscribers. For now, the lists
will hold posts by non-subscribers to list admins for moderation.
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Dan Winkler wrote:
there for i suggest email address's should be viewable ONLY by list
suscribers and said sucribers also get some sort of option to hide the
email address aswell
That is doable, but it would prevent Google and other search engines
from seeing the lists too. We want the
On 5/27/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 05/27/06 20:08 CST:
I know that's covered in FAQs all over the world, but I figure it makes
sense for it to be included with the other xorg.conf instructions.
This, to me, is a very good suggestion. DJ,
On 5/29/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terminology check on 'other DRI drivers'. The drivers provided by nVidia
(and I assume ATI) provide hardware acceleration, but they don't use the
Direct Rendering Infrastructure - referring to them as DRI drivers is
thus somewhat misleading.
* Zlib 1.2.3
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features include upgrades to 34 packages including
Linux-2.6.16.27, GCC 4.0.3, and Glibc 2.3.6. Check the What's new
page for details.
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Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote:
Hi!
The link for Additional Downloads is wrong:
BLFS book says:
Optional documentation:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/pre/doc/Linux-0.99.4.0-docs.tar.bz2;
Correct link:
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On 2/15/07, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is on a multilib build, using the second gcc-4.1.2 release
candidate. I don't think the multilib part is relevant, so I'll
take the risk of asking here. Xpdf (3.01pl2) is failing to compile
with (lines wrapped)
g++ -m32 -O2
* Psmisc 22.5
* Readline 5.2
* Shadow 4.0.18.1
* Tar 1.18
* TCL 8.4.15
* Texinfo 4.9
* Udev 113
* udev-config-6.3
* Vim 7.1
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On 10/22/07, Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I posted this a few days ago but it may have been overlooked so I'm
reposting. My apologies if I'm being rude; however, I cannot get my dial-up
internet working without this :-( Thanks.
From: Walter Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
On Dec 17, 2007 10:53 AM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please also try the attached patch (at the bottom) in wiki flac page,
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/flac
There is a problem with the patch file:
$ file libsndfile-1.0.17-flac.patch.bz2
On Dec 17, 2007 11:05 AM, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 17, 2007 10:53 AM, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please also try the attached patch (at the bottom) in wiki flac page,
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/flac
There is a problem with the patch
Dan McGhee wrote:
I installed fontconfig 2.4.2 for this BLFS build.
...
`find / -xdev -type f -name fontconfig.pc -print` gave nothing.
Then you don't have fontconfig installed properly. It should be at
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
michael lang wrote:
Ich hab keine ahnung auf was du meinst. Kann Sie uns es erklären warum
Sie dieser text nach ein mailinglist hinüber Linux schickt.
On 18/08/2008, *Roland Puntaier* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ich werde ab 18.08.2008
Dan Nicholson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am playing with LFS for the first time on my Dell Inspiron 1420n.
(At some point, I might write a beginners' walkthrough for getting LFS
working on this laptop model.) Overall, I like what
Darcy Roberts wrote:
Greetings all:
What is the minimum required software to support Firefox. Nothing else
graphical. (Do I need a desktop manager?)
Yes. It is a graphical browser. The prereqs are listed in BLFS.
I'm currently using Links in framebuffer mode, but it has a problem
Mark A. Olbert wrote:
I've run into a problem that I'm not sure how to solve.
I have an LFS v6 box running as a firewall/router/server between my home LAN
and the internet. It was working fine for years, but the other day I added a
second IP address to the external NIC. I did this by just
Mark A. Olbert wrote:
Sorry, that command line got broken up. It should read as follows:
ip addr add [2nd address]/24 broadcast [bcast address] label eth1:1 dev eth1
Yup. It was the routing table.
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FAQ:
Mark A. Olbert wrote:
In the interests of education, how was the routing table messed up? Because
the prefix defaulted to 8 bits, which was inconsistent with the previous
routing table entry (from eth1:0)?
You didn't give the routing table, but you probably had the wrong netmask.
For
Mark A. Olbert wrote:
Thanks. I think I see what happened. Here's my routing table when things are
not working:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0
66.159.230.0
William Tracy wrote:
Okay, stupid question time again. :-)
Does the i810 driver for Xorg require any special kernel support?
Xorg launches and works (mostly) if I specify the vesa driver in
xorg.conf, but fails if I specify i810:
(II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
William Tracy wrote:
I haven't been able to get it working yet, but you have convinced me
that I'm doing something funny with my kernel.
Bruce: I can't actually find that exact option in menuconfig, but I
may just be being stupid here.
John: The modules you list exactly match what Ubuntu
William Tracy wrote:
I'm going to have to drop out of the discussion. I don't have any more advice
to give other than to google around. My systems all have Nvidia cards and they
work fine. Good luck.
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Scott Castaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Dan, I'll give that a try. Any config suggestions or material
that could be useful in helping me. I'm not a programmer type as per se
and this is an area (security) that I want to learn more
TheOldFellow wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:33:30 +0100
Jeremy Henty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:41:14PM +1300, Simon Geard wrote:
... the Wiki is mostly supplemental information for packages that
are in the book - alternative configurations, optional
] is appreciated.
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greets, all-
I was hoping someone could help me out here. I finished LFS, and am
now working through the relevant parts of BLFS. Things are going
pretty smoothly, I'm fixing some mistakes I made in config files and
stuff
Ralph Porter wrote:
Ken,
No disrespect sir, but I know how to use google...
If you review the past history of this mail list, you will find
several cases where the helpless noobie is thrashed by the LFS gods
for venturing off the established path...
My questions was related to where is
Simon Geard wrote:
That said, I don't always follow that advice - my scripted builds run
entirely as root, since having a script acquire root permissions partway
through is a pain
Just set up sudo to run without a password:
User_Alias ADMIN = userid
ADMIN ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
and
Ralph Porter wrote:
I must have missed a step. I do not have /usr/bin/sudo or /etc/sudoers
What step has this install?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/sudo.html
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Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
Using sudo without a password should be discouraged at any chance and
should be avoided.
That depends on the system. Who has access to it is an important factor.
Convenience and security are always trade offs. On a system where we are
building lfs/blfs, it
Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, at 02:05 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Which line is that?
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
I'm afraid I don't agree with you, but we each have a right to our own opinions.
As I already said to another private
b-vol wrote:
Greetings
I am about to try and install avifile. I notice it needs qt3. I have
already
installed qt-4.4.3 and enabled qt3 compatibility. Does anyone know if this
is suffcient for avifile or if qt-3.3.8b MUST be installed?
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that qt3
b-vol wrote:
Greetings,
I am having a spot of bother compiling qt-3.3.8b. I have qt-4.4.3 already
installed in /opt/qt-4.4.3 and plan to install qt in /opt/qt-3.3.8b. I keep
geting make fail
error while loading share library
libqt-mt.so.3 no such file or directory.
I have
DJ Lucas wrote:
José Carlos Carrión wrote:
Obviously the problem is in Xorg and not in BLFS team.
Anyone knows why this applications (many of them have been in X from
many years ago and are very useful like xdm) have been «dropped» from
X11R7.,4 official distro? I'm browsing in deep in
dennisjperk...@comcast.net wrote:
I've compiled openssl on my new system, but for some reason it will only
install the /etc files and the /usr/share files. I am using DESTDIR to check
things first before installing into the normal locations. I've been trying
to figure out why the other files
Scott wrote:
There is a link there to a gentoo-wiki.com HOWTO which unfortunately
appears to be broken. (They lost their whole database. Sounds like
something I would do) Does anyone have some other such resources?
Umm... Google autofs howto?
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On Saturday 28 February 2009 10:13:00 am lux-integ wrote:
I have just discovered if you use the Linker-flagsandthe Header-flags
(LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS respectively) in front of cmake. the build goes to
completion
Did you really need to quote 30K worth of
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Following svn-20090302 I am trying to compile aRts-1.5.10, with the error
result:
'PATH_MAX' was not declared..
.
I compiled as preparation all required and recommended dependencies but none
of the optionals.
Googling I found exactly my problem described, but
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 03:46, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
It sounds like you didn't install the linux headers. See LFS 6.7.
Linux-2.6.27.8 API Headers
wow, Bruce ! you made a deep investigation for me, which, by the way,
introduces me a little in how to proceed
Ken Moffat wrote:
Bruce, it builds fine with that switch added. An interesting solution.
OK, I fixed the book to reflect that issue.
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richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote:
When building the test framework for BIND-9 I encountered a number of
failures in the perl module IO-socket-INET6-2.51 test. I checked on the CPAN
website and this version was reported as having a high failure rate.
Version 2.56 was claimed to be much
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
BLFS-Book should upgrade to version guile-1.8.6 which works correctly.
Thanks. I created a ticket to remind us that there is a new version.
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richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ive just installed NTP and it's working OK. I didn't look at the docs until
after installation and I've just noticed that it can be installed in a chroot
jail. As the book doesn't recommend this type of installation can I assume
that the consensus is that
lux-integ wrote:
On Friday 08 May 2009 09:19:32 pm lux-integ wrote:
QUESTIONS:
1) What do the above mean? I compiled the kernel as:-
(*)Sound Card Support -enabled
(*)ALSA --enabled
(*)generic sound devices -enabled
()virtual midi soundcard -disabled
(this is the only
Dominic Ringuet wrote:
Maybe it is the same bug that I have, which seems to be a nspr bug. see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39869
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439144
If anyone wants to try
Don Thomas wrote:
The bootscript for apache didn't work. I receive an error that basically
states that the /etc/sysconfig/rc doesn't exist, which it doesn't. Can you
help me understand why this was placed in the apache init script and what
it's supposed to do?
It should have been installed
lforet060...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I remember 3.5.9 worked fine on that but kde
doesn't keep old versions of 3.5 anywhere.
Try ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/conglomeration/
It has kde 3.5.6 as well as 3.5.9 and 3.5.10.
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Dave wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new blfs user, having completed the lfs book yesterday and
getting 6.4 going. I'm running it in a virtual machine as i currently do not
have physical machines to do it.
I've installed opensshd on this machine and started it no problem.
My issue comes when
Ken Moffat wrote:
Background: when I saw that gconf now demands PAM I was double-plus
unimpressed - for me, KISS is mandatory. Found some gentoo patches
to build gconf without PAM, but I'm aware they might be the cause of the
problem I'm seeing.
For my personal system, I don't install PAM
Duncan Baynes wrote:
james wrote:
Hi to all:
First of all, first time post here.
I successfully build LFS-6.5 with virtually no problems at all and want
to say thanks to the developers.
Now it was on to BLFS and I have installed these additional packages:
Openssl-0.9.8g
Openssh-4.7.p1
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Also the domain/search lines are meaningless. First, the last one specified
overrides any earlier domain/search line and second, it should be a proper
domain name. Also, a domain/search line is not required at all. It is only
there as a convenience so you can specify
Richard Melville wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:-
And remove the nameserver 192.168.1.1 line unless that system has a
properly installed nameserver installed.
Are you sure about that Bruce? I'm away from home at present and so I can't
check any of my LFS boxes, but I'm fairly certain that my
Philipp Christian Loewner wrote:
kwin: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_kwin.so: cannot
load shared object file: No such file or directory
Have you updated /etc/ld.so.conf to point to the proper directories? For both
kde4 and qt4? Is the default PATH correct?
I haven't done
Philipp Christian Loewner wrote:
Well, that was a stupid mistake. I double-checked that
everything containing the phrase kde was deleted from
my /usr directory to ensure that my old KDE3 installation
didn't bother the KDE4 stuff. Unfortunately, kwin doesn't
contain kde.
Another testimonial
Ken Moffat wrote:
OK, I've now got my keyboard working well enough
(arrow keys on the numeric pad don't work, but I don't
use them), and the compose key is broken in xorg,
but I no longer use it - all the oddities that I use are
either on AltGr-something or on a dead key accessed
via AltGr.
Fernando Oliveira wrote:
I have no sound.
ALSA installed as instructed (alsa-lib-1.0.21, alsa-firmware-1.0.20,
alsa-plugins-1.0.2, alsa-oss-1.0.17, alsa-utils-1.0.21). However, could not
follow the book with speex-1.0.5, but needed to install speex-1.2rc1,
instead, because
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Hi,
since months the BLFS Book online is telling us, that the new stable version
of BLFS is delayed.
I just built a KDE-4.3.0 version on my own. It is true, that many little
issues and problems remains open. Far from beeing mature, however, the system
can already
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
The question remains open, how to contribute to BLFS in the field of kde-4
implementation. I have now some experiences, as I built kde-4.3.0 and
upgraded
to kde-4.3.2, the actual stable version. I could try to write a draft kde-4
for the BLFS book. If, I would
William Immendorf wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
Second, you can edit the wiki. See for example
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdelibs
Then why can't I edit it? I should be able (as well as other users) to
edit the wiki.
We have
Trent Shea wrote:
On Monday 19 October 2009 13:05:27 Guy Dalziel wrote:
Thank you, Trent. The problem, however, isn't really the black screen
itself,
I trimmed too much when I quoted - my bad. '-retro' does more than just
change the background, though.
A snippet from the Xorg man page:
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
On Friday 16 October 2009 22:56:06 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I have been thinking a little about your suggestions, but I think I need a
little help:
There are three ways. You can right a hint.
My idea was to write a kind of draft-book for the pages
Jim McConville wrote:
I have successfully completed the compilation of kdelibs-3.5.10 by applying
the patch with the command:
patch -Np1 -i ../kdelibs-gcc44.patch
and finishing the effort with:
./configure --prefix=$KDE_PREFIX \
--sysconfdir=/etc/kde \
tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote:
When ntpd -gqx sits on the (still not ready) link, it hangs
forever (ok ok, i did not wait so long) and the only option is to shutdown
using the power-switch.
Just comment out the 'ntpd -gqx' line.
The fallout is that the regular start of ntpd on the next
tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote:
Many thanks to all the replyers!
I'd like to fix that being late of the network card/driver instead of
doing some workarounds if somehow possible.
If there is no fix then it would be great if there would be a way to
wait until the link becomes ready
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Good to hear from you stranger.
Ditto. :)
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Simone Dalmasso wrote:
Thanks lux-integ, unfortunately my Xorg stops before creating the
xorg.conf.new. I need to create this file, but I don't know how.
Use the below to start. You can change the Device driver to match
after you check things out using the vesa driver. All the Modules may
Simone Dalmasso wrote:
Thanks a lot Bruce.
Now somethign happens, the screen is still black but the vmware window
resizes when I type Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (using vmware video
driver give the same result)
I've modified the fonts path to match my folder but there's a symbol that
cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Hi
I probably asked for this, but I went ahead anyway and the outcome
has been ok apart from this sound problem.
I upgraded the kernel headers(to 2.6.18) on an old 6.1 system,
installed glibc 2.3.6(was 2.3.4), upgraded gcc and binutils and ran
all the lfs
rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote:
I understand why the version BLFS is often behind LFS. However, I do
think the one or two months BLFS statement should be changed as it
hurts credibility.
OK, done.
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FAQ:
stosss wrote:
I just got to the point of doing BLFS. I know the project is
volunteer. All the books say use whats recommended in the book. Why
release something just because it is ready when the next part (the
more important part) is not. I was just asking straight forward
questions.
There
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
PS : As a matter of fact, I'm french, so I don't quite understand
FOAD :-)
It's rude and crude. It has no place on the lfs mailing lists.
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William Immendorf wrote:
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:49 PM, LinuxPuertoMontt
I'm using lfs 6.4
Well, there's your problem Please go and use development BLFS, it
will work a LOT better.
William,
Please stop telling people that not using the latest version of LFS
is the problem as a
LinuxPuertoMontt wrote:
2009/11/28 Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com
Have you somehow trashed the file
/usr/include/linux/socket.h ?
nop, i have socket.h in /usr/include/linux
That seems odd. On an old version and a current version of LFS I have:
/usr/include/asm/socket.h
LinuxPuertoMontt wrote:
hello friends, i'm alfredo and i'm new in the mailing list. I'm working on a
blf system, i had a little problem with the packages, but that was solved,
anyway it is imposible to me to build gnome-keyring-0.8.
i make the ./configure this way:
./configure
Alonso Graterol wrote:
How can I be sure any package is able to find the library wen called
as -l(***)?
-L/path/to/library
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Sean Porterfield wrote:
Sean Porterfield wrote:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/tetex.html
tug.ctan.org wouldn't give me the file, so I got tetex-src-3.0.tar.gz
from anduin.linuxfromscratch.org
I get an error as shown in the subject line.
Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel wrote:
Hello there,
This is my first serious post to blfs-* ML.
I have a running LFS 6.4 (kernel version 2.6.27.4) system and I'm working on
BLFS 6.3 (stable).
I ran into trouble with the iptables-1.3.8 package.
BLFS is not keeping up. The current version of
Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c wrote:
This is how I've been setting my PKG_CONFIG_PATH
for pfix in /usr \
${GTK_PREFIX} \
${OTHER_PACKAGE_PREFIX} \
${XORG_PREFIX} \
; do
if [ -z `echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH | grep $pfix` ]; then
[ -n ${PKG_CONFIG_PATH} ]
stosss wrote:
Bruce pointed out on the LFS list that tar xf is BSD format tar -xf is
short Linux format. So is there any special reason for using the BSD
format in the BLFS book? I have found in the most recent release and
earlier releases, some possible errors
linux fan wrote:
On 12/28/09, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/28/09, linux fan wrote:
I compiled strace-4.5.18 on a very recent dev lfs build with 2.6.32.2
and no problem.
DOH, but I used linux-headers 2.6.31.6.
It was SVN-20091124 and then I upgraded kernel to 2.6.32.2.
lux-integ wrote:
On Thursday 31 December 2009 05:02:37 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c wrote:
This is how I've been setting my PKG_CONFIG_PATH
for pfix in /usr \
${GTK_PREFIX} \
${OTHER_PACKAGE_PREFIX} \
${XORG_PREFIX} \
; do
if [ -z `echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH | grep
Ken Moffat wrote:
http://strace.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgip=strace/strace;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0df31e
The link didn't work for me.
Is this it?
projects / strace/strace / blobdiff
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ \
], [], [])
stosss wrote:
If the following modprobes are built into the kernel and not modules,
should I comment out the modprobes below as in my sample below?
cat /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables EOF
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/rc.iptables
# Insert connection-tracking modules
# (not needed if built into
stosss wrote:
I have a very basic lfs6.5/blfs svn system. I am taking my time
through the security chapter. Been there about 3 weeks now. as I
mentioned in another post I was having trouble with iptables-1.3.8
errors during compilation. Chris S gave a link suggesting I should
look at
Ken Moffat wrote:
This is weird. I've just built xorg-7.5 for the first time (versions
as in BLFS, except xorg-server-1.7.4 and Mesa-7.6.1 - no hal, no dbus
at this stage), and I can barely see the desktop, much less tell you
what colours are used in the decorations. It's like looking
Ken Moffat wrote:
2010/1/10 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com:
What are you doing? If it's xorg -config fn, did you add the -retro
flag?
Driver ati
This is really the only important part.
Also forgot to mention that this is a TFT monitor.
Will try running xorg -config
Matthew Burgess wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:06:29 +, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com
wrote:
2010/1/11 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com:
Xorg -configure
will tell you what kind of video card X finds. Look at ~/xorg.conf.new
Actually, I believe that upstream are moving
Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
Hey, I was just wondering if it was possible to use LFS to make my own
shareable linux distro.
Yes.
If so, how would I do that?
Build what you want.
And also, what goes into a livecd or install cd?
Your distro, your rules.
Actually LFS doesn't distribute any
William Tracy wrote:
BTW, I know the LFS site provides a live CD image. I see that the
documentation does provide some information on your to customize your
own image, though I do not see instructions for building it from
scratch yourself. (Anyone know if they exist?)
It's dated, but should
lux-integ wrote:
Greetings
Some programs such as poetgresql seems to require the setting of the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH envar. I ususlly do this as a normal user prior to
compiling. There could be advantages in having this set 'permanently'
in /etc/profile.d
QUESTION: Could
Andrew Benton wrote:
xpdf-3.02pl4 works well for me with the most recent xorg sources. It
requires lesstif-0.95.2 printproto-1.0.4 libXp-1.0.0 and t1lib-5.1.0.
It's not as pretty onscreen as Evince but it's better at printing. It
prints really well and allows text searching in pdf files.
Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Hallo,
building BLFS svn-20100128 I can download all packages through lynx. However,
nearly every patch downloaded in this way is corrupted, the patch cannot be
applied. Nothing similar happens, if I download the patches e.g. through
Firefox on another box. Is
Mike McCarty wrote:
So, I want to make me a desktop with not much additional stuff on
it, but with web capabilities. I've started reading BLFS in earnest,
and thought I'd begin by making a list of things I _do_ need.
However, there is no single dependency tree.
So, I wondered, what is the
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