language configuration in X and XFCE

2007-01-17 Thread Thierry Nuttens
Hello everybody. I have instal XFCE. with XFree86-4.6.0 Everything OK. I just would like to have X windows /XFCE in french. it has to be set somewhere export LOCALE = fr_CH but no idea where Tanks a lot in advance for your great help Regards Thierry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-17 Thread Nadav Vinik
I fink that all the recommend techniques are good in the same level. Any of symlinks, timestamps , prefix or diff style are simple as the other. You also can use PM which other distro use like pacman rpm or deb and what getoo use. The advantage is that you can sure that you would remove and upgr

Re: glibc-2.3.6 install problems

2007-01-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/17/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now at end of input. > /tools/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > : No such file: No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Seems that you're missing the ld installed in /tools. You shou

glibc-2.3.6 install problems

2007-01-17 Thread James Smith
I'm building the Glibc-2.4.6 library in chapter 9.6 of the LFS book I'm getting the following errors when I compile: Stack now 0 2 5 7 43 151 234 323 452 569 647 533 297 412 Entering state 498 Reducing stack by rule 434 (line 1871), lineno_stmt_decl_or_labels_ending_stmt lineno_stmt -> lineno_stmt

Re: ACPI

2007-01-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/17/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a lot of stuff on the net on linux and ACPI, a lot of it > out-dated. What have other LFS users done to implement control of the > feature? HAL + gnome-power-manager -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: h

Re: Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/17/07, Benedikt Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Book excludes any recommendations about which pack'man' to use, which > doesn't make it easy for newbies. So, I have (1) the suggestion to the Book's > developers to add a "if you don't know at all, take this strategy" sentence, > a

Re: Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Stout
> currently I am setting up my first LFS build, which I do primarily to learn > more about linux, while great performance or flexibility are less important > (My machine is a standard Athlon i586 PC). > > On the other hand I also want to have a certain possibility to upgrade single > packages (a

Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-17 Thread Benedikt Schmitt
Dear List, currently I am setting up my first LFS build, which I do primarily to learn more about linux, while great performance or flexibility are less important (My machine is a standard Athlon i586 PC). On the other hand I also want to have a certain possibility to upgrade single packages

ACPI

2007-01-17 Thread Arden
There is a lot of stuff on the net on linux and ACPI, a lot of it out-dated. What have other LFS users done to implement control of the feature? thanks, Arden -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the abo

Any AHCI PCI SATA300 adapter cards?

2007-01-17 Thread Amadeus
Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but while looking for a sata adapter card for BLFS I saw in http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html about the AHCI standard and was wondering how to find AHCI pci adapter cards if there any yet. If not any recommendations for sata300 pci adapter

Re: Section 5.3 - permissions -

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Lord
Chuck wrote: > Version LFS 6.2.3 Live CD > > Book Section 5.3 > > When attempting to create the directory binutils-build using > > mkdir -v ../binutils-build > Am I in the right directory at this time? I have seen other messages which > indicated I need to be in the directory: > /m

Section 5.3 - permissions -

2007-01-17 Thread Chuck
Version LFS 6.2.3 Live CD Book Section 5.3 When attempting to create the directory binutils-build using mkdir -v ../binutils-build the directory cannot be created as this backs up one level in the directory structure taking me to "home" which requires root access. Home permissions