Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Josh wrote these words on 01/30/06 21:44 CST: > *please note -- This email assumes it is OK to post a very happy > "success story" instead of a question asking for support. If it is not > OK, please disregard this email. I was happy enough that I called my > brother, so I thought I would also ma

first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-30 Thread Josh
As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 system with the aid of the grub rescue disk! You should've seen the grin on my face when it happened... priceless. It's a "by the book" system with almost no variations except for booting. /boot is hdb1, swap is hdb2, and / is hdb

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Miguel Bazdresch
* rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-30 16:46]: > Also can someone shed some light on the [make] Error 1 > and [all-recursive] Error 1. Specifically what do the > statements inside the [] mean and where would I find more > documentation on this? I've found 'info make' to be quite understandab

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread rick
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Randy McMurchy wrote: >BTW, Rick, I'm just messing with Dan giving him a hard time about >his, um, failure to grasp. :-) Not a problem. Of course I am speaking from the point of view of someone who is a frequent recepient of the "Ralph Wiggum Clueless Award." Rick Richar

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code is from LFS Version 6.1, section 1.4.3 "Compilation > Problems." It is not an actual error message from my build. I just used > it for an example. Sorry if I did not make that clear. Sorry, I never actually looked at that before. > >> "-lu

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
rick wrote these words on 01/30/06 15:38 CST: > The code is from LFS Version 6.1, section 1.4.3 "Compilation > Problems." It is not an actual error message from my build. I just used > it for an example. Sorry if I did not make that clear. > > Thanks for the help Dan. I appologize for not maki

Re: swapon invalid arg [FAIL]

2006-01-30 Thread Lennon Cook
mrdaniel wrote: > but nontheless, the next round we will make special note about that. Are you *sure* you're ready for LFS? If you were among the technically experienced users it is designed for, you'd realise just how assinine this sentence is in the context of Rainer's mail that you were replying

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/30/06 15:13 CST: > > On 1/30/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The output below is from the Version 6.1 book on pg.28 as a > >>sample of output from a make. > > > > Most people don't have the printed

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/30/06 15:13 CST: > On 1/30/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The output below is from the Version 6.1 book on pg.28 as a >>sample of output from a make. > > Most people don't have the printed book, so could you please say which > section you're in? i.e. C

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread rick
Dan Nicholson wrote: <...> >Most people don't have the printed book, so could you please say which >section you're in? i.e. Ch. 5.3 Binutils - Pass 1. I'm not sure >where you are, exactly. Also, what kind of system are you building >on? The code is from LFS Version 6.1, section 1.4.3 "Compila

Re: Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is the wrong forum for this question my appologies > in advance, just point me in the right direction please. It's the right forum. > The output below is from the Version 6.1 book on pg.28 as a > sample of output from a make. Most people don'

Re: alsa problem with emu10k1 driver: Solved

2006-01-30 Thread Leo Peschier
Compiling the kernel without alsa and separately compiling the latest stable driver package (1.0.10) solved my problem. I've tried to find out what went wrong. It seems that the AC97 codec (which comes with the driver, either fron the kernel source or the driver package) didn't load properly. I don

Understanding make error messages

2006-01-30 Thread rick
If this is the wrong forum for this question my appologies in advance, just point me in the right direction please. Having gone through "LFS Version 6.1" way more times than I want to admit I am trying to figure out what I keep doing wrong. I think one of my problems is a lack of knowledge in

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Alan Lord
>> here's a couple of pointers that may (or may not) help... Did you actually configure your fonts as explained in the subsequent sections of the book Chapters 25 and 26? Did I miss something? Sorry - I meant the last two sections of Chapter 25 and not 26 - My fault! There is an important

Re: 64-bit build failed binutils chap 5?

2006-01-30 Thread John Gay
On Monday 30 January 2006 14:32, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, John Gay wrote: > > Yea, I know, never reply to your own mails, but . . . > > > > At that stage, I'll be running a 64-bit host from the spare partition and > > replacing the old 32-bit system with a 64-bit build. > > On

Re: Getting Used to Modular Xorg

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin Jordan
On 1/29/06, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/config > > Imakefile.c:34: error: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory > > Shure 'nuf there was no /X11/config directory. However, on both > my PC and my laptop, both with Xorg-6.8.2, this directory e

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Ricardo Frydman Eureka!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Lord wrote: > Ricardo Frydman Eureka! wrote: > >> I've downloaded and compiled libpng-1.2.8 and Fontconfig-2.3.2 >> (supposedly) without errors. >> >> Downloaded and compiled, following the book, xorg. >> >> Try to run it with: >> X -config ~/xor

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Alan Lord
Ricardo Frydman Eureka! wrote: I've downloaded and compiled libpng-1.2.8 and Fontconfig-2.3.2 (supposedly) without errors. Downloaded and compiled, following the book, xorg. Try to run it with: X -config ~/xorg.conf.new and I get Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100

problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Ricardo Frydman Eureka!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm building a LFS system with the great help of the book. Everything ok. Now I try to get a more "friendly" system with the BLFS book. I've downloaded and compiled libpng-1.2.8 and Fontconfig-2.3.2 (supposedly) without errors. Downloaded and

Re: 64-bit build failed binutils chap 5?

2006-01-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, John Gay wrote: Yea, I know, never reply to your own mails, but . . . I'm now building using the CLFS book, as recommended into the spare partition for playing/testing, but what do I do when I'm ready to use that to build my new Desktop? Build, suffer, rip out (restore to

Re: 64-bit build failed binutils chap 5?

2006-01-30 Thread John Gay
On Sunday 29 January 2006 16:48, John Gay wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:05, Jim Gifford wrote: > > > So much for just running through the book > > > with a 64-bit host. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > John Gay > > > > John you need to follow CLFS to get a good build on your x86_64. > > Da

Re: swapon invalid arg [FAIL]

2006-01-30 Thread mrdaniel
> may be you just missed the "mkswap /dev/hda1" step ... > -- well i think not because all my 3 hard drive in 3 different PCs gave the same message. me and my friend are sure that step is done. we had been rather careful not to miss asny steps. but nontheless, the next round we will make speci

Re: swapon invalid arg [FAIL]

2006-01-30 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:46 +0800, mrdaniel wrote: > in rebooting got this line of message:- > swapon: /dev/hda1: Invalid argument [FAIL] > > the etc/fstab has these entryies:- > > /dev/hda2 /ext2 defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=10 0 > > i had tried changing different values

swapon invalid arg [FAIL]

2006-01-30 Thread mrdaniel
in rebooting got this line of message:- swapon: /dev/hda1: Invalid argument [FAIL] the etc/fstab has these entryies:- /dev/hda2 /ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=10 0 i had tried changing different values for the swaap line but to no avail. i had aloocated the partitions a

Re: newbie introduction

2006-01-30 Thread John Gay
On Monday 30 January 2006 01:40, Josh wrote: > Hello all. > Hello, back (-; > I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Josh, and computers have > always been a primary hobby for me. I'm not a programmer or > developer... just insatiably curious. One of the un-written pre-req's (-; > I'm