Experiences with severn and 2.6 kernel on a dell laptop.

[avilella at lycos.es]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:35, Laur Ivan wrote:
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> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 12:48, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > decided to try again. this time with no probing devices. poof again in
> > > the same spot. Subsequently I tried the *extreme method*: let the initial
> > > image load and remove the firewire connection while starting the
> > > installer. ..and voila! it worked. Of course, it wouldn't load the sbp2
> > > module (hang again), but I decided I could live without for the install
> > > time. So off I went with the network install...
> >
> > (boot option "nofirewire" 8))
> 
>  d'oh! :)
> 
> >
> > >  The sound is OK. The sound applications are not. I understand that there
> > > are issues with licensing various codecs (mp3), but one should be
> > > provided with some lines: "we don't have it, but you can get it here and
> > > compile it yourself". IMHO, xmms is rather useless without mp3 support
> > > since most
> >
> > Red Hat is a free software company. You can get mp3 modules from a variety
> > of locations but obviously remember to obey your local laws - this is
> > especially an issue in the USA
> 
> I understand the legals. I'm just saying a document of links where to get 
> stuff from would be nice. I'm sure something along these lines it's going to 
> be available (as release notes or otherwise) by thie time severn is released.

I check freshrpms.net (for fresh rpms) when I install a (fresh) Redhat.
the redhat9 version of xmms-mp3 does it for Severn.

> 
> >
> > >  - when I launched the battery applet (gnome), it crashed with no
> > > explanation. KDE would have displayed "battery/power info not available"
> > > and the crossed battery icon in the tray. Loaded the acpi modules, and
> > > got the applet running with the exclamation mark and red battery
> > > (unavailable). No big surprise here
> >
> > Please bugzilla the applet crash
> 
> It's alreay there as 100540.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Laur
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