Re: [yoper-dev] 3 Remaining issues to be sorted prior to beta release
Hi Tobias, Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:05:11 +1200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com Subject: [yoper-dev] 3 Remaining issues to be sorted prior to beta release Hi, From what I know we have 3 issues remaining before we should go ahead with the beta release: 1) Apparently with the evdev xorg driver in user the touchpad stop working. Now I was able to remedy this by adjusting the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf to : InputDevice Mouse0 InputDevice Synaptics TouchPad CorePointer Well, apparently this didn't add any new fix to my system. In fact, I have to use the 'mouse' driver because the synaptics one works horribly. It would be nice you would paste your whole mouse settings so we can make sure there is no other mistake in between. Do we have other peoples affected by this and can you or not confirm this fix ? 2) OSS-GPL Needs updating to 4.1 There is still a large number of chipsets out there that are not nicely supported by the currently shipped version of oss-gpl. Armin, can you please comment on that? Armin, I ready to keep on testing my sound card on OSSv4. Remember there is a new patch ready at http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8161sid=1ee0a676164527285d58047cfadbdf3d#8161 3) Medias can not be automounted anymore. Using /mnt as mountpoint for fixed hdds may need further adjustments I don't have the slightest idea what is all this about... :-( I'll also see that I will get a couple of more xorg video drivers compiled ( namely the radeonhd driver ) . If that all works out nicely I'd like to go ahead with a first release on next weekend , basically about 1 week delay from the recently discussed plans. So what do you think ? Pleople need whatever and having an official Beta release is, imho, a good idea... Regards! :-) -- Tobias Gerschner Yoper Linux - www.yoper.com Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ___ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev _ MSN Video. http://video.msn.com/?mkt=es-es ___ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
Re: [yoper-dev] 3 Remaining issues to be sorted prior to beta release
Hi Tobias, concerning oss-gpl ... What is your reference list for that claim? I'd really dislike including likely highly unstable software, especially something as crucial as the soundsystem into yoper. Before including it, I'd at least recommend to run some tests. The package will be created tomorrow, about 9 pm GMT+1. I will also test my notebook whether bug 1) occurs with it. Regards Armin Hi, From what I know we have 3 issues remaining before we should go ahead with the beta release: 1) Apparently with the evdev xorg driver in user the touchpad stop working. Now I was able to remedy this by adjusting the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf to : InputDeviceMouse0 InputDeviceSynaptics TouchPad CorePointer Do we have other peoples affected by this and can you or not confirm this fix ? 2) OSS-GPL Needs updating to 4.1 There is still a large number of chipsets out there that are not nicely supported by the currently shipped version of oss-gpl. Armin, can you please comment on that? 3) Medias can not be automounted anymore. Using /mnt as mountpoint for fixed hdds may need further adjustments I'll also see that I will get a couple of more xorg video drivers compiled ( namely the radeonhd driver ) . If that all works out nicely I'd like to go ahead with a first release on next weekend , basically about 1 week delay from the recently discussed plans. So what do you think ? ___ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
[yoper-dev] Fwd: Re: 3 Remaining issues to be sorted prior to beta release
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [yoper-dev] 3 Remaining issues to be sorted prior to beta release Date: Wednesday 09 April 2008 From: apriori [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tobias Gerschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hm... well, the thoshiba te2100 has a Yamaha ymf753 chipset - quite old and unusual, I think. I'll contact the devs about it to verify the issues. Concerning the Asus A8H I think it's quite new, given the fact it does have an intel HD audio based chipset - and I remember the oss devs being under heavy work load just for this driver. The 4.1 version might perform much better here. I currently can only recommend to test all oss-gpl versions we got and check whether the issues with a chipset have always been in oss since version 4.0 or have been included at some point (like the problems pettern had (has?) with his chipset). The output of ossinfo -v is missing, though :P For further analysis I'd like to have the following information on all machines that cause problems: ossinfo -v, soundon.log, lsmod, uname -r Another possible cause may be our compile flags ... I'll also build a oss-gpl version in alpha soon with more conservative cflags. If we're not able to support very new soundcards and the very old and widely used ones properly, we're dommed to revert back to ALSA - unfortunately. Before that happens, I'd like to doublecheck with other people though. I also contacted draco linux a while ago to coordinate if any problems with OSS occur and they also provided us the scripts they used to build OSS. In the next weeks it might be very helpful to get a list with chipsets that cause problems. Especially interested I am in cases in which the drivers cause buffer underuns, noticable in some strange overamplified noise, distorted bass, which I currently experience with the general usb sound device driver only (which is labeled beta anyway). About the other problems you experienced - well, broadcom and the whole ndiswrapper approach is (forgive me) a pain in the ass. For the touchpad I'd recommend to use the standard mouse driver, since synaptics seems to be unmaintained (or at least seems to be not further developed and fixed in any way). The normal mouse driver also performs much better in sense of decent default values for the touchpad touch sensitivity - although it lacks some fancy features like scrolling. Btw.: Testing at an installfest was a very good idea and should be done more often now. This way we could test with a wide variety of hardware. Regards Armin Hi Armin, I experienced sound issues on an old toshiba te2100. I provided you the output for ossinfo -v from that box. At an installfest I installed a yoper 3.1 snapshot on an Asus A8H notebook. Was a near catastrophe :/ . - Touchpad did not work ( I think I got that covered now ) . - The proprietary broadcom chip is hard to get working and well, - the sound via oss sounded like the speakers were broken and about to die. I am aware that we have indeed very limited options to improve the situation around OSS . I'd just like to explore that a bit more and see what can be done. It is indeed your call in the end ;) . If there's anything we can do just get us doing it. cheers --- ___ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com http://lists.frank-hosting.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
