[blfs-support] BLFS 7.10 fonts less clear than in 7.9.

2016-09-19 Thread rhubarbpieguy
I've run BLFS 7.10 for several days and noticed less clear fonts than with 7.9. I reinstalled from square one without success and don't see my error. As a test, I reinstalled BLFS 7.10, but with BLFS 7.9 dejavu and fontconfig packages (dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.35 and fontconfig-2.11.1) and my

[blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

2016-09-19 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts: ... checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least

Re: [blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

2016-09-19 Thread Samuel Tyler
On Tuesday, 20 September 2016, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi all, > > I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts: > > ... > checking for memory.h... yes > checking for strings.h... yes > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking

Re: [blfs-support] Updates Without Crashing LFS

2016-09-19 Thread Wayne Sallee
On 09/12/2016 08:10 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: Magic-SysRQ in the kernel, so if it hangs Alt-SysRq-S (sync), pause briefly, Alt-SysRq-B (boot). Yes that's is one of the things that I really like about linux. It also works good for boot problems as well. Thanks for all your help! Wayne Sallee

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 7.10 fonts less clear than in 7.9.

2016-09-19 Thread Michael Shell
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:29:19 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > The internet has a plethora of suggestions for tweaking what happens > in fontconfig. The quality of on-screen font rendering under Linux has long irked me. It seems that after I finally get things the way I like,