Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 15:10 schrieb Buchan Milne: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > 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). Ah ok. He states that the update kernel didn't made anything better ... > 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). Maybe someone with a laptop can verify if it works on installation of cooker... > >>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? If with this names for volume groups can be defined , yes :) > > 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 ...). .. that destroyd the WinXP installation data in the secured area of the hd ;) No I think he does not know it better. > > 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). Yep > Also, note that the > T40 is about the newest laptop available, AFAIK it was released *after* > Mandrake 9.1. Yep, that is what made a great part of his article pointless. Further he didn't showed how the others are working on it. > 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. I don't think he knows what contrib is. Steffen
