Keyboard disabled in X

2007-07-29 Thread Jerome Warnier
I get a strange problem when GDM is starting. My PC is an old PII with ASUS P2B motherboard, with PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The first time X (GDM) starts up, the keyboard is disabled, while it is working in the console while booting. The mouse is working fine, but I cannot type anything, nor

Re: Applications tracing on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2007-07-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:04:04AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: My Debian GNU/kFreeBSD machine is getting slower everyday. I would like to start some tracing of applications (of which Perl), but no tool like strace or truss seem to be available. The only tool I found is bonnie++, but I can

Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread Uwe Hermann
[CC to debian-bsd as it's relevant there, too] On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Dnia 2007-07-29, o godz. 15:11:55 Ulrich Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): I tend to differ. It will be easier to fix the Linux kernel, find a maintainer for it and

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Uwe Hermann wrote: [CC to debian-bsd as it's relevant there, too] On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Dnia 2007-07-29, o godz. 15:11:55 Ulrich Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): I tend to differ. It will be easier to fix the Linux kernel, find a

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:13:03PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Dnia 2007-07-29, o godz. 15:11:55 Ulrich Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa=C5=82(a): I tend to differ. It will be easier to fix the Linux kernel, find a maintainer for it and then get it into Debian again. We would

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe, but NetBSD kernel does not correctly work on sun4m/SMP, like Linux. Today, no one OS can be used on sun4m/SMP workstations, and I think that it will be easier to fix linux 2.6 sparc32 kernel than work on debian/xBSD sparc32 port. I

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ulrich Teichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's not quite true. Dave Miller is still collecting patches, Mark Fortescue, Krzysztof Helt and others are producing them. See the respective posts on [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just that there is no real maintainer for the port. [...] Call me

Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?

2007-07-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:22:04AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Call me a chicken, but I still think it will be less work to just fix the issues in the kernel and use the existing stuff instead. That's the whole issue. I am under the impression (perhaps wrongfully) that Linux development