Re: Can't get HDMI output working properly in Linux Mint

2014-08-18 Thread John J. Macey
Fred, I am running Mint 17 XFCE, and have recent experiences with my PC, and a HDTV. Also, I've used a relatives ancient Dell, also running Mint 17, to play well w/ a HDTV. W/ my PC, I used an HDMI cable, w/ my relatives a VGA cable. Both PCs worked well, but I did have to use the TV

Re: Can't get HDMI output working properly in Linux Mint

2014-08-18 Thread Fred Fifield
Thank you very much. This is exactly what was going on. I should have figured this out on my own, the big clue being the desktop background showing up on the TV screen. For some reason I was expecting the TV display to be a duplication of the laptop display, not an extension of it. I d on't know

Re: lfs fail during 6.26

2014-08-18 Thread Michael Havens
okay, I modified my script a little (see below) and it seemed to run but the red fail didn't seem to come up in the grep command. So everything is good now? FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \ --prefix=/usr\ --enable-no-install-program=\

Installfest matters

2014-08-18 Thread Kaoru Wilbur
So, after the installfest conversation in PLUG IRC yesterday regarding installfest matters, I noticed that a lot of the items discussed are actually guidelines already presented in the Linux Installfest HOWTO. Many improvements to the PLUG Installfest can be made by following these guidelines.