Re: Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread Luca
Thanks to all for the replays, after sending the post I tried recompiling the kernel including internal support for xfs, ide_core, ide_disk, scsi, sd_mod and via82cxxx and not as modules and this solved the problem, now I will try with your indications about grub... By the way, actually it see

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-07 Thread veritosproject
Assuming that you meant cat build-package-name.txt | su this makes bash read neither /etc/bash_profile, nor ~/.bash_profile. This is the case even if su is invoked with -. With package users, I need bash to read ~/.bash_profile before I execute the instructions in build-package-name.txt. I d

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
First, let's say that this is the compilation instructions: START FILE ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install END FILE Throw an "exit" on the end of that, your root password on the front, giving: START FILE 123456 ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install exit END FILE Then simply call: e

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Tyler Packer
I've had a few minor problems with X losing the mouse device when switching between windows and linux boxes on a couple different (older) Belkin models. I then switched to Cybex (also an older model) and I've had no problems switching between any of the OS's I use. I'm currently using an 8 port C

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
First, thanks to everyone for sharing. Ken Moffat wrote: For consumer-level devices, no! If you downgrade "works well" to "works fairly well", any of them, at least for PS/2. Problems I see are occasional garbled display in X (change to another resolution, if you can, or to a tty then come ba

Re: No sound from speakers

2006-09-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:57:02PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. I've > compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and installed the alsa > library, plug-ins, utilities and alsa oss. I've run the speaker-test and > played

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Mag. Leonhard Landrock
Hi Dan! Am Donnerstag, 7. September 2006 18:27 schrieb Dan Nicholson: > I've been looking into getting another box at home, but I really don't > have the space to support another full desktop setup. So, I figured I > could just get a KVM switch and save some space. Good idea. :-) > The question

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:27:49AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I've been looking into getting another box at home, but I really don't > have the space to support another full desktop setup. So, I figured I > could just get a KVM switch and save some space. > > The question is, can anyone recom

Re: Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread Mag. Leonhard Landrock
Am Donnerstag, 7. September 2006 18:19 schrieb Luca: > Hi there! Hi Luca! [...] > Now I tried various times to boot but > had no success, always ended up with a kernel panic. > The error message is " VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb3" or > unknown-block (0,0) > Please append a c

No sound from speakers

2006-09-07 Thread Richard Melville
Please can somebody help. I've reached the stage of desperation. I've compiled the via drivers and alsa into the kernel and installed the alsa library, plug-ins, utilities and alsa oss. I've run the speaker-test and played a wav file and everything on the terminal screen looks good. I have not

Re: Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread kriss
Luca a écrit : Hi there! Just finished LFS SVN-20060906 with some modifications (Glibc-2.4 plus Glibc-LibIDN-2.4 built as per book and Linux-2.6.17.11 plus Linux-Headers-2.6.17.11-08232006 from Cross-LFS SVN-20060906-x86) and had no problems in compilation. Now I tried various times to

Re: Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread Vladimir A. Pavlov
In chapter "8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable" when entering root (hd0,3) try to not type the whole line but instead type "root (" and press key twice. Then GRUB will try to "autocomplete" your partition name and being not able to, will print all the partitions it sees with some information

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: The question is, can anyone recommend a model to use that will work well with the current kernel? I'd prefer a switch that has DVI inputs since the monitor is an LCD and both cards should be able to drive it digitally. How do these switches interact with X? I've never used

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Jaqui Greenlees
--- Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/07/06 11:27 > CST: > > > The question is, can anyone recommend a model to > use that will work well > > with the current kernel? > > I use an *old* Linksys KVM without any issues > whatsoever. It is a > ProCo

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/07/06 11:27 CST: > The question is, can anyone recommend a model to use that will work well > with the current kernel? I use an *old* Linksys KVM without any issues whatsoever. It is a ProConnect 4-station, model #SVIEW04. > I'd prefer a switch that has DV

Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Nicholson
I've been looking into getting another box at home, but I really don't have the space to support another full desktop setup. So, I figured I could just get a KVM switch and save some space. The question is, can anyone recommend a model to use that will work well with the current kernel? I'd pr

Re: Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread dave frost
If i were you id have all hard drive based support compiled into the kernel, and none as modules, its the safest way. Id try that. Dave Luca wrote: Hi there! Just finished LFS SVN-20060906 with some modifications (Glibc-2.4 plus Glibc-LibIDN-2.4 built as per book and Linux-2.6.17.11 p

Booting problems

2006-09-07 Thread Luca
Hi there! Just finished LFS SVN-20060906 with some modifications (Glibc-2.4 plus Glibc-LibIDN-2.4 built as per book and Linux-2.6.17.11 plus Linux-Headers-2.6.17.11-08232006 from Cross-LFS SVN-20060906-x86) and had no problems in compilation. Now I tried various times to boot but had no

Re: Switching users in a bash script?

2006-09-07 Thread Brandon Peirce
Angel Tsankov wrote: > exit > END FILE > > Then simply call: > echo build-package-name.txt | su What will happen if I do not append an 'exit' at the end of the file? Then it will get stuck I think and you will have to hit C-c to get out of it. No, it does not. I tried with and without 'exi

Re: Package users: wrapper script for mkdir

2006-09-07 Thread Angel Tsankov
The addition of this feature is desired since the glibc 2.3.4 installation (from LFS 6.1.1) calls mkdir with relative paths You'll have a hard time convincing me of that. No glibc version I've ever installed did this. I have an LFS system lying around that used 2.3.4 which has /usr/share/locale