-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 13:41 schrieb Buchan Milne: > >>>The article is in german so it is only usefull for thus who can read >> >>german. >> >> >>>http://www.pl-berichte.de/berichte/mandrake-t40p.html >> >>The complaints are not all valid. Note that he changed from apm to acpi >>by editing lilo.conf, and then wonders why acpid is not set to start at >>boot, instead of using drakboot (or even enabled it during >>installation), which does everything correctly. > > I know that they are not all valid. But as I have near zero knowledge about > linux on notebooks, i thought here on cooker someone could see if there are > valid points in it, that can be fixed :)
Here is another Mandrake 9.1 thinkpad page: http://www.richard.neill.hemscott.net/a22p-mdk9-1.html We already have a tp4utils package because of this page. Also, the thinkpad device drivers went into the kernel just after 9.1 release, and are in 0.18mdk update (which I am sure most people missed, including our T40 user). > What belongs to the acpi=off, he states later down in the comments that he has > choosen during install acpi to be on and the acpi=off was in the lilo.conf > after that. I have only ever enabled acpi *after* installation, and it has always installed acpid and done the right things with lilo. A bigger problem is that by default drakboot was setting acpi on if it was off (haven't tested on cooker recently, so haven't filed a bug). > I suspect it to be right as he was not able to see the loadkeys > hint on a started rescue disc, but was able to complain about qwerty > keyboard. > > >>I am not sure what he is saying about LVM, but it isn't difficult to get >>LVM setup during installation: >>http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1-lvm.png >>http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1-lvm2.png > > > "While partitioning it was disturbing that it is not possible to define names > for logical volumes in mandrake. They will be automatically enumerated. Other > big ditributions allow this." > I was not sure if he was referring to volumes, or volume groups? Ahhh, it seems we can't specify -n option to lvcreate via diskdrake yet? > >>The only valid point he has regarding LVM is that LVM isn't started up >>in the rescue image for 9.1. >> >>He also does not give any information on *which* touchpad driver he is >>looking for. There are huge differences between Thinkpad models, so >>without the information, it is impossible to know how to fix it. > > > I can mail him and ask if this is helpful to us. Would be nice. If it is the synaptic driver, I think people have already asked. Austin, your laptop has one of these? >>His last complaint about /sbin/installkernel on first kernel update not >>leaving a boot option for the original kernel is valid, and really needs >>a fix!!!! > > Yep this one I recognized as valid too. Maybe we need to file a bug on it, otherwise it will get forgotten ... > >>>Maybe this helps somehow someone as constructive critic. >> >>Not terribly constructive, and very one-sided, but my german isn't that >>good. > > That it is very one-sided is the general meaning of german mandrakians too. It very much looked like he started off wanting to prove how much worse Mandrake was than his beloved SuSE (whose rescue disk he keeps using all the time ...). > My > main concern was that someone with more knowledge about this topic should > have a look at it, so eventually valid points can recognized. pro-linux is > quite popular over here in germany. Well, as far as I can see, his only valid complaint is the LVM stuff (volume name, not starting LVM on the rescue disk). Also, note that the T40 is about the newest laptop available, AFAIK it was released *after* Mandrake 9.1. All other thinkpad's I have heard of do very well, most users I have encountered had no problems enabling acpi, all NTFS resizes I have done worked fine. Most users probably also miss the thinkpad-specific features in contrib, such as tpb, and in cooker they will probably miss tpctl and tp4utils. There is though a remaining irritating problem with Toshiba laptops relating to keyboard repeat. I know someone running 9.1 on one of those, but he hasn't answered my mail about it ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/DBRgrJK6UGDSBKcRAmycAKCYM0Xu3332EviZfSWjn6MGyXPqEgCgxNhj RZMpOAP9+rL5nw8+TpdcDyc= =JmNX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
