Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

the LiveCD as a well-tested platform (nwebs confuse this with the best platform), while if one has a distro installed, it should work just as well! -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

Re: Help: kernel 2.6.24 breaks 8-bit chars in the terminal

Dan Nicholson wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 6:16 AM, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Henty wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:00:12PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: This is because the new kernel defaults to UTF-8 on the console. You need a new version of the console

Re: (unknown)

the needed patches to important packages such as grep, coreutils, diffutils and groff. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Help: kernel 2.6.24 breaks 8-bit chars in the terminal

Jeremy Henty wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:00:12PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: This is because the new kernel defaults to UTF-8 on the console. You need a new version of the console bootscript to drive it out of this mode. OK, running unicode_stop fixes things. I guess

Re: airo_cs support broken in 2.6.23.1 ?

/pcmcia/Makefile obj-$(CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC) += rsrc_nonstatic.o However, you have already set this. CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=y Maybe you just need to install pcmciautils? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: lfscd-remastering-HOWTO

follow the HOWTO that you can find on the CD, with one correction: instead of svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/trunk/packages/initramfs please run svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/trunk/packages/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: ati drivers in x.org-7.2

and Xorg!). I don't know for sure whether this is relevant for the users of fglrx. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: ati drivers in x.org-7.2

to override this detection from the command line and fake 7.1 as Xorg version. Unfortunately, I am not able to verify this now, because of the old video card and expensive bandwidth (downloading fglrx would eat more than $10 from my account). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Live CD Boot problem

-pre1, which contains a newer kernel, and report the result? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: ipw3945 Wireless Daemon

, it will be retried later, when you have write access to evrywhere. Disclaimer: this mail is written from Debian Etch, without udev installed, and without any wireless card. It may be a complete nonsense. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: help with firmware loading problems with DBVT device

paste the exact firmware loading rule. This is one of the things that has changed at least once during udev development (binary - shell script change) and tha the distros change frequently. Also please post the output of: ls -l /lib/udev -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: KDE - locale - I'm a little disappointed...

Jerzy Goca wrote: (LANG=pl_PL.ios88592), That's wrong. Should be just pl_PL or, equivalently, pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 (case-sensitive). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: KDE - locale - I'm a little disappointed...

, because not everyone uses UTF-8 (and not everyone can, because one even incompatible but important program makes the transition impossible). Please choose another toolkit. Qt makes a perfect alternative. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

Angel Tsankov wrote: Btw, how do I query the status of the PPPoE connection? One of the following methods should work for you. 1) ip link list | grep ppp0 2) pidof pppd (from the script, you would prefer pidofproc -p /var/run/ppp-${1}.pid pppd) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http

Re: Minor issue in chapter 7 Not critical

print nothing in some other valid locales, remove it. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PPPoE connection using only the PPP package

to send packets, it's because you have no defaultroute option and/or forgot to set the link up. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Font changing by their own ???

worked previously and stopped fully working now. maybe it is out of order and needs replacement before it dies completely -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: /proc hard-link count

that should have been searched. How can I fix this? TIA You can't. It is a kernel bug. As a workaround, don't use the find command in the proc filesystem. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

[Announce] LFS LiveCD 6.2-pre3 Released

list. To download the new LiveCD, visit the LFS LiveCD download page for a list of mirrors: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

Re: Xorg 6.9?

Simon Geard wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:34 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: #include linux/types.h The same hack is needed for modular Xorg, which is used on the latest development LFS LiveCD (not released yet). Yes, I've now got 7.0 working - didn't try 6.9 after the first failure

Re: cannot copy and paste in LiveCD environ

and shift+ctrl+v. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: is LFS LSB compliant?

implementation, and say nothing about ncursesw (see also http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Man pages

or reflections? See above. You also have to patch man so that it falls back to English manual pages properly. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Man pages

. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Man pages

. not acceptable for LFS: we have to support both UTF-8 and traditional locales in the future). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: .SWF file de-compiler?

that program. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Starting with Slackware 10.1

://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ However, it is tricky to set up udev so that it doesn't conflict and/or race with dmraid (I never managed to do that properly). Good luck to you! -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Invalid pointer in XMMS

) after it crashed. The trace showed it was in some sort of startup code and calling one of the plugins. I removed the plugin (all I remember was that it was for something that I didn't think was very important) and it worked fine. Is aRts output plugin installed? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http

Re: Hint for builting LFS using LiveCD

to chapter 6. Is this right? No. You won't be able to chroot into an empty system. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Serial mouse

-patched Xorg that can actually use that is beyond BLFS). The main advantage is consistency with PS/2 and USB setups. You run the inputattach program and forget that the mouse is a serial one. Also, the kernel does some interpolation of mouse data, so the cursor moves more smoothly. -- Alexander E

Re: Serial mouse

it was to test that the Live CD works. In fact the Live CD supports both setups. Also I found the following (possibly relevant) links: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advdev.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/29/79 -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: internet connection with liveccd

supported host - but that's against the spirit of LFS). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: bootup problem - LFS-6.0.

everything except null and console from /dev using either another system or a Live CD. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[HELP NEEDED] Re: Duplicate drivers and hotplug

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The same problem exists for other hardware, e.g. Intel EtherExpress 100 and Tulip network cards, but I don't know the situation well for those chipsets (both e100 and eepro100 work here). For PCI hardware, I already listed all problematic cases that are relevant

Duplicate drivers and hotplug, aka Live CD doesn't detect RTL-8139

/config?root=livecd -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[RFT] Console autoconfiguration for the Live CD

please specify your locale). Suboptimal but not strictly incorrect guesses should be explained (i.e. what exactly is suboptimal). Test results should go to the lfs-support list. -- Alexander E. Patrakov #!/bin/sh # Begin $rc_base

Re: gpm compile failure on ppc

emits this function call abd the libm library becomes needed then. And you need to link it explicitly because only you know that the ceilf() function should be searched there. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org