On Saturday 01 May 2004 17:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 01 May 2004 16:25, A1tmblwd(a)netscape.net wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>>Greets all;
>>
>>I just ran a make xconfig on that fresh install of test3 on my
>> shop box as I wanted to turn on a full fledged ISA bus scan since
>> there are two custom made 8 bit ISA cards containing a few relays
>> and apparently a whole 8 bit wide input port per card, and while
>> I have what appears to be normal fonts elsewhere, all I get on
>> the xconfig screen are gfx chars, little boxes of various shapes
>> and half, quarter, and full moons in a character sized box.
>>
>>That box isn't on a network allthough it may be eventually when I
>> can figure out howto get some cat5 run to the shop building. I
>> hate digging ditches, been there, done that once already for
>> power out there.
>>
>>Running gnome of course since there is apparently no terminals
>>available if I switchdesk to kde. And it sure don't look like the
>>kde I'm looking at here!
>>
>>How can I fix these fubared characters?
>>
>>--
>>Cheers, Gene
>
>Use qconfig. It's not broken. If you must use xconfig, an anonymous
> poster in a 2.6.5 kernel forum recommended running qtconfig.
> Deselect (turn off) the option labeled "Enable Anti-Aliased Font
> Support (XFT)". It worked for me.
Thanks Kam. If you are refering to "make qconfig", thats an error
2, no such option in the makefile or some such twaddle.
When I arrived up the hill at the shop, and woke up the monitor(I'd
left it running when I came down the hill to send the previous msg),
the screen was trashed, and I had to exit x and restart it to clean
up the screen (I'm using a blank screen as the screensaver). Now it
seems to me the least fussy screensaver is a blank screen, needs
little of no cpu. But this is test 3, so...
That machine did pass about 3 full passes of memtest86 nice and
cleanly.
Next suggestion? Does a make menuconfig still work?
One thing I hadn't noticed is that, first qtconfig was preset for some
utf8 font as the default, rather quickly changed to codepage 437
which I also made the default compiled in font when I finally got a
"make xconfig" to run.
That problem it turned out, was the fonts for starters, and the lack
of my copying in from the configs dir, a suitable starter .config.
Once that was done, everything seems normal, and a fresh kernel is
building as we type, probably take about an hour since its a 233 PII,
and only 128 megs of pc-100 dimm. Can you say sslloooowwwwww?
For those with similar problems, run qtconfig and assign some
reasonable fonts, then make sure there is a copy of .config present
in the /usr/src/linux-2.6 tree.
Humm, I noted, but didn't fix, the lack of a softlink named linux-2.6
in the usr/src dir. Should I fix that?
>-- Kam Leo
>
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message
by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.