I reported it to the kernel team...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Tandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:55 AM
> To: MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1)
> Subject: RE: [Cooker] 2.6 kernel
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 19:42, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote:
> > Ed,
> > I reported the bug about the screensaver not logging
> back in (bug
> > 792)
>
> Are you sure? I've just looked in Mandrake Bugzilla:
>
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=792
>
> This is something completely different. Or is there some other bug
> tracking system?
>
> > and that has been rejected as unreproducable. I think that if we get
> > more cooker folks involved we can find the root cause of
> annoying problems
> > like this...
>
> It's reproducible every time on my system. Could be another timing
> thing. I'd like to know what the gnome-terminal fix is so
> that I can see
> if it's the same thing in the screen saver.
>
> Ed-T.
>
>
> > Cory
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Edward Tandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:56 AM
> > > To: Cooker (Mandrake)
> > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] 2.6 kernel
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:22, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> > > > Le Mercredi 16 Juillet 2003 12:00, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> > > > > The Linux kernel team would like distribution vendor to
> > > propose 2.6 kernel
> > > > > as an alternative during install, to fasten debugging. Is
> > > this possible for
> > > > > 9.2, for expert installation only maybe ?
> > >
> > > I like the idea.
> > >
> > > > I am thinking a best deal at time is to put it in
> cooker contrib.
> > > > Anyway, this kernel should be packaged soon to begin
> > > testing and report bug to
> > > > kernel team.
> > >
> > > Not just bug reporting to the Kernel team, but bug reporting to
> > > Mandrake. There are certain timing problems in various
> > > programs that are
> > > triggered by the new scheduler in Linux 2.6.x. Someone on
> the Kernel
> > > list has found the bug for gnome-terminal. Xosview needs
> a fix (output
> > > from /proc has changed). The biggest problem for me is the
> > > screen-saver
> > > password lock (doesn't let me in!).
> > >
> > > > A very good idea is to package it as it, without any patch.
> > >
> > > Probably OK for now, so that we can report the bugs. I
> > > imagine 2.6 will
> > > not be ready in time for Mandrake 9.2. But Mandrake 9.2
> > > should be ready
> > > for Linux 2.6.x.
>
