[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 014 snapshot 20071010

[Michael Homer]

On 10/14/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/13/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/13/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:01:25 +0200, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 10/11/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >> Hello everybody,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> And here's another snapshot. It features improvements for
> > > > >> international support, such as font configuration fixes, an updated
> > > > >> version of ZSH and a bunch of fonts with better unicode support
> > > > >> (DejaVu, Gentium and a CJK font).
> > > > >>
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > >> All feedback is greatly welcome. Feedback on the list is okay, but it
> > > > >> really helps a lot if bugs are reported in the bug tracker:
> > > > >> http://bugs.gobolinux.org
> > > > > Once I got the full image, it installed without trouble or any
> > > > > noticeable bugs. The only minor problem I saw was that the text refers
> > > > > to using QtParted, while GParted is all that's there.
> > > >
> > > > Where were QtParted referred to? I found references in the introduction
> > > > and package list in the installer. Were there any more references?
> > > No, I think those were it.
> > >
> > > I didn't run in to any other problems that haven't already been
> > > reported (sudoers permissions, no ALSA support in KDE-Libs). It added
> >
> > The KDE-Libs issue you mean is this?
> > http://bugs.gobolinux.org/view.php?id=153
> Yes. It just needs the ARTS part of KDE-Libs recompiled with ALSA
> present. It may also need Xine-Lib installed, but I'm not sure whether
> that was an artifact of something else I'd done trying to sort it out.
> My experience was that artsd crashed whenever something other than
> pure wave audio was played, even after it had been recompiled for ALSA
> support, with an error about xine libraries.
> >
> > > a couple of fstab entries for partitions that don't exist, but that
> > > doesn't really cause an issue.
> >
> > But it's an issue nonetheless (we had some misdetections in the past,
> > it probably means our fstab generator is not 100% yet). What did it
> > generate wrong? Could you file a bug report, attaching your
> > /proc/partitions and the resulting fstab?
> Done.
> > > The monitor wasn't correctly detected
> > > as 1280x800, but changing a single line in xorg.conf fixes that (just
> > > add "1280x800" at the start of the list in the Mode line in the Screen
> > > section, for anybody looking later on);
> >
> > Ok, I added more modes there. Xorg just ignores the ones the card
> > can't handle, so I just added every mode I could think of there:
> >
> > Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854"
> > "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> >
> > If anybody needs a mode that's not listed, now is the time to say so.
> >
> > > the rest of the video setup
> > > was done perfectly. GL worked out of the box. The Synaptics touchpad
> > > and the winmodem weren't set up either, but the software isn't on the
> > > ISO for them so that'd be expected. So no real problems, and nothing
> > > outside the hardware detection at all.
> >
> > Besides adding the Synaptics package to the CD, would any extra config
> > step be necessary?
> Actually, it doesn't seem the package does anything (it's just some
> extra tools). It needs the "synaptics" driver in Xorg, which isn't
> there (it's not part of the recipe), and an entry to use it in
> xorg.conf. I will look into what's necessary to get that going.
Ok: synaptics_drv.o, compiled (but not installed) as part of the
Synaptics recipe needs to go in
/P/Xorg/Current/lib/xorg/modules/input/, which I don't think is
possible within the current technology without including it within the
Xorg meta-recipe. It's not part of Xorg proper for license reasons
(X11/GPL). The executables are just tweaking tools.
-Michael