Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GnewsensetoMips and related

2009-02-01 Thread Sam Geeraerts
elly.liu...@gmail.com wrote: I've shared a document with you called GnewsensetoMips and related: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pfcPAhRmDQW9CYzNnbb4BXAinv=gnewsense-...@nongnu.orgt=7156856375605319714guest It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this

[Gnewsense-dev] New Debian image

2009-02-01 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Looks like there's a new Debian image: http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson/loongson2_debian5_20090129.tar.bz2 I'm downloading right now. Is this the 20090119 image with updates or something different? I wish they would put a README or something in that directory to make some sense of all those files.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] new gNewSense/MIPS netboot archive

2009-03-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi! I rolled a new netboot image, and corrected a number of issues in the archive. What we have now: - tasksel didn't work (package selection wasn't automatically installed). It's quite messy to work with tasksel anyway, so I got rid of it, and now use

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Do we have any python hackers?

2009-03-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Hi all, I'm hoping we have someone who grocks python and who is willing to help debug our 'software sources' bug. I've done some of the groundwork, but I may need to call on an actual hacker if I cant get in touch with the maintainer (which is what I'm trying to do at the

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] Do we have any python hackers?

2009-03-08 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Brian Brazil schreef: lsb-release should be fixed now, SVN 225. Brian I just updated base-files and software-properties-gtk works for me now. So http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00241 can be closed? ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Lemote URI in sources.list

2009-03-22 Thread Sam Geeraerts
s.bouta...@free.fr schreef: Quoting Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com: If there are specific packages of interest in there, they can be added individually. Please let me know about it. I am curious if someone has managed to use mplayer from the gnewsense repository. I had to use the package

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] new how to help draft page

2009-03-22 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Graziano Sorbaioli schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Due to a recent discussion about how to attract more developers to gNewSense I am working at the new how to help page here: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Main/CurrentProjectsTest I am looking for your help because I think

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Lemote URI in sources.list

2009-03-23 Thread Sam Geeraerts
junyi.hit schreef: Robert Millan 写道: Does totem work? On my yeelong gnewsense the totem crashed the desktop every time I open a video. No problem with Totem here. I tried with the low quality ogg theora of the GNU Fry video. ___

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnewsense mips-l errors summary

2009-03-25 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Is there a BTS we can use to keep track of such things? As Karl said [1], probably best to use bugs.gnewsense.org, with a category like mipsel or mipsel-l or something. However files the first bug gets to pick the category. Hurry! :)

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] usplash on yeeloong

2009-03-27 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi, usplash works on yeeloong now. If you dist-upgrade, you'll get a properly setup system for yeeloong's screen resolution. All you have to do is load the initrd after linux. E.g: load /dev/fs/e...@wd0/vmlinux-2.6.27.7-libre initrd

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] usplash on yeeloong

2009-03-28 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Graziano Sorbaioli schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Geeraerts ha scritto: I just dist-upgraded. I now have an animated splash screen both at bootup and at shutdown. Btw, I think you forgot the boot directory there: load /dev/fs/e...@wd0/boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.7-libre

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] su-to-root problem (synaptic, etc)

2009-04-08 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:04:25PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote: Was the dist-upgrade supposed to install something relevant to this? Because all I got were packages regarding the archive keyring, color management and xulrunner (-dbg version of the latter for some reason

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] maguilablue skin modified

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: El mié, 08-04-2009 a las 22:53 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió: Very nice indeed. Good job on the bug squashing. Are you going to close the bug report or would you like someone else to do it? Thanks, Sam. Wouldn't it be better to close the bug when

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] su-to-root problem (synaptic, etc)

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Graziano Sorbaioli schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graziano Sorbaioli ha scritto: I booted my yeeloong, login into gnome, open a terminal, launch a sudo wvdial, insert my password. Then I tried to launch gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic and it worked the first time! I can

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Gnote added to mipsel-l, please test

2009-05-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: I made a package of Gnote, backported it to mipsel-l, and verified that it works. Before adding it to the standard package selection, I'd like to ask if gNewSense / Yeeloong users could try it and confirm it's in a usable state. I'm specially interested in people who

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] WWW site: Download button translation

2009-05-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Graziano Sorbaioli schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christophe Jarry ha scritto: Moreover, i think http://www.gnewsense.org/Lists/Lists should be updated to reflect the content of http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/JoingNewSense#toc4. Well, for what I know the List page is

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Report of non-free software in gNewSense

2009-06-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: I've heard a report that the Free Pascal Compiler contains some non-free software (and a copyright violation) which was fixed in version 2.2.2. Can you check this, and either remove it or upgrade it? Please ack when you've dealt with this. I've checked this and made

[Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] Add/Remove... suggestion to install or work with non-free software

2009-06-13 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:38:43 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: On Sun, 24 May 2009 10:22:50 +0300 Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: It turns out that there already was a bug report for this [1]. I've updated it with rms

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Thunderbird recommending non-free software

2009-06-14 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Rubén Rodríguez Pérez schreef: I've realized that, as Firefox, Thunderbird points the users to addons.mozilla.org for extensions, a site listing non-free software. This must be avoided redirecting the users to a list of free add-ons. This can be easily fixed by changing some default config

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mono in the default install

2009-07-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: The best way to encourage people to do the last 5% of the work to get non-C# applications packaged and installed is to refuse to put in the C# applications that have such equivalents. That way, the people who want either such a program included have a reason to help

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mono in the default install

2009-07-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: Features that seem to be missing compared to other distributions for reasons other than the programs being non-free software would impact their judgment and the adoption of gNewSense negatively. Our goal is to change society, not compete for

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] question about bug #109

2009-07-08 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Ali Gunduz schreef: well, gnufs find the newest version of cracklib are been re-licensed under the GNU GPL v2: http://cracklib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cracklib/trunk/cracklib/README-LICENSE?view=markup The license there states that cracklib is GPL since 2005: This approval was carried out

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense teams, know your new homes

2009-07-08 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: I changed the info about the Website Translators and Local Communities in the How to help page[1] of the wiki. What I did was to move the info about the former into the list of projects of the later[2]. Each local community project in the list link to a page

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Lemote yeeloong laptop - where my root partition is

2009-07-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Niklas Cholmkvist schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Geeraerts wrote: You could try some proper partition device names, like wd0a, wd0b, wd0c, etc., although wd0 should be the same as wd0a. Although I continue to get, although I later continued until the letter m

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Lemote yeeloong laptop - where my root partition is

2009-07-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Niklas Cholmkvist schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Geeraerts wrote: Maybe it's a bug in your PMON version. Try upgrading it: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote#toc225 It says the info there is work in progress, and if I follow these instructions incorrectly

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] changes on wiki page GNewSenseToMIPS

2009-07-19 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Niklas Cholmkvist schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 title gNewSense mips-l - hda1 kernel (wd0,0)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.7-libre initrd (wd0,0)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27.7-libre args console=tty root=/dev/hda1 rootdelay=8 ...caused me errors during the

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-07-21 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Christophe Jarry schreef: Hi all, While updating my system last week, i was asked to install app-install-data-commercial package, which seems to ease installation of non-free packages. Here is the list of packages for i386:

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:04:05 +0930 Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:20:33 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: I noticed that too, so I've reopened the bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00200 Its a regression, so its now

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [Fwd: Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Non-free package found: pdftk]

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: I just want to mention that we still have this. A regular DONT_CHROOT=1 ensure_updated pdftk pdftk $RELEASE$i remove_package pdftk '' would do the trick, I guess? It should do, but hasnt on my local buildd. I'll keep investigating. kk My Builder run just finished. I

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: HI all, Would one of the tex users like to hack on texlive-base? gNS bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248 Upstream bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477060 I suspect its much the same level effort as the texlive-generic-extra package. I

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-07-29 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Cool. Not having app-install-data-commercial hangs the installer when trying to install third party applications, but they're mostly non-free applications, so we shouldn't have that list anyway. Hence http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00309. This appears to be a hang over

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Connection to svn refused

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Geeraerts
aurelien schreef: aurel...@r2d2:~$ svn checkout svn://svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net/gnewsense/ /home/aurelien/gnewsense svn: Impossible de se connecter à l'hôte 'svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net': Connection refused aurel...@r2d2:~$ sudo svn checkout svn://svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net/gnewsense/

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Worst case scenario is that nothing has changed, so we'd have to remove the whole thing. It seems this would not only hurt TeX users badly, but might also break other stuff: we do not know whether any of these files is used for building Debian packages We broke X badly,

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] why a so old kernel the last are not free ?

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Geeraerts
aurelien schreef: DEBLOB=$PWD/firmware/deblob-2.6.24.4.1 We sync with Ubuntu 8.04. If you want a newer kernel, go to Ali Gunduz' Freedom Shoppe: http://aligunduz.org/gNewSense/. ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Its also possible a number of the Debian packages are built against ams because its available - they might be re-introduce-able by rebuilding them. It's weird that they don't know about these dependencies. Packages Not sure what you mean here. I mean: the Debian devs say

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-08-02 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:25:09 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: I noticed that too, so I've reopened the bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00200 Its a regression, so its now highest priority. Wonder what I've done Thanks

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Kernel on Yeeloong and initrd

2009-08-02 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Ziro schreef: Hello, When I tried to apt-get upgrade the kernel from version 2.6.27.7-libre-10.00.Custom to 2.6.27.7-libre-10.00.Custom on Yeeloong, the installation script said that version of the kernel does not work without initrd and I need to install a bootloader. Currently I run the old

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [KERNEL] report on actual bugs

2009-08-02 Thread Sam Geeraerts
crap0101 schreef: Hi! Here's a report about open bug regarding the kernel: * (mach64.h) http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00212 About the mach64.h bug, there's no news. I and the fsf licencing team have tried to contact ATI, but no answer yet. If someone have technical/licence knowledge useful

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-04 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Benedikt Ahrens schreef: Hello, I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their licensing will be unified. I think that the issue is a bit similar to the Mozilla story: it is more a question of trademark than of copyright. Modified versions may not carry the same file name

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: I have changed the status of the bug[1]. Its now NEEDSINFO, BLOCKER, target release deltah (2.3). I'll adjust the status when we get word back from the FSF as to their opinion. Sam/Benedikt, have either of you emailed the FSF yet? I assume nobody has up until now, so I've

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] b43 kernel module suggests installation of proprietary firmware

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Patrik Lembke schreef: KFV link http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--net--wireless--b43 A patch for the later kernels who can use the free (2.6.28 looks like it can) could be to just replace this with something nicer telling the user how to install the

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] b43 kernel module suggests installation of proprietary firmware

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Patrik Lembke schreef: I could write one up, but not sure were in the wiki to put it :( How about you add a new subsection under Drivers to the wireless documentation [1]. Or, if it's a long explanation, create a new page (e.g. http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Openfwwf) and link to it

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-08-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: Cool. Not having app-install-data-commercial hangs the installer when trying to install third party applications, but they're mostly non-free applications, so we shouldn't have that list anyway. Hence http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00309

[Gnewsense-dev] Icecat checkbox

2009-08-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
I found a way to make the Icecat checkbox in Software Sources work (see bug report 277 [1]). It seems that every section in /usr/share/python-apt/templates/gNewSense.info needs a MatchURI. I haven't found any documentation about this, so I don't know why it is required and what it really

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense update: app-install-data-commercial

2009-08-10 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: So far app-install-data-commercial hasn't been automatically removed from the systems that have it because it's still listed in the package index (although the package files themselves have been removed). So a way to solve this bug would be to add the package to the repo

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: I have changed the status of the bug[1]. Its now NEEDSINFO, BLOCKER, target release deltah (2.3). I'll adjust the status when we get word back from the FSF as to their opinion. Sam/Benedikt, have either of you emailed the FSF yet? I assume nobody

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Bug logging in under X

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: If I log in under X, then switch to a terminal to do work while the login proceeds, X sometimes crashes. When that happens, a new copy of X starts on terminal 8, and terminal 7 remains hosed. I do not know how reproducible this is -- it is rather a pain to try to find

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Partial patch to gen-kernel

2009-08-13 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: The code to modify the b43 related bug is commented out. I got help writing the sed line, and I have NFI what it does. I'm not putting it in without understanding. Sed FAQ [1] 4.13 sheds some light on that. In pseudocode: for each input line buffer = input line :more

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-13 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Benedikt Ahrens schreef: I see. Then I think we can leave it where it is. I still think we should include an updated licence file for it though; and a reference back to this discussion. Thoughts on that? kk You might want to reply to the AMS. They promised to deliver an updated license text,

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] (UPDATED) Partial patch to gen-kernel

2009-08-14 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:14:38 +0930 Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote: Hi all, Attached is a partial patch to modify gen-kernel. It should fix the following bugs: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00212 - DeltaH - Kernel - non free licence /include/video/mach64

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Partial patch to gen-kernel

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Secondly, the search string as it is now doesn't take the whitespace in the code into account. I think that it should be something like: s|.*b43err...to \n.*http...firmware \n.*and..\\n);|See...|; Are you able to help test that theory? I've attached an improved version

[Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] possible error in gen-kernel builder script

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Kemmey, Whitney W CIV NSWCDD, K54 schreef: The gen-kernel builder script includes the following lines: # Changes so it'll compile without some modules for i in debian/d-i/modules/*; do sed -i 's/^\([[^ ?][^ ?]*\)$/\1 ?/' $i done Is the sed command correct? I think this is

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Two non-free programs in gNewSense

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: These programs need to be removed -- could you please ack when they are gone? d4x was removed two months ago, ivman was removed last week. ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] possible error in gen-kernel builder script

2009-08-18 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:27:18 +1000 Tony tmu...@gmail.com wrote: That proposed regex is syntactically incorrect, I believe. It does not close the \( with a corresponding \) Good catch. Should have been: sed -i 's/^\([^ ?]+\)$/\1 ?/' $i As for leaving it broken - yeah.

Re: Deltad archive (WAS: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Two non-free programs in gNewSense)

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:23:25 -0400 Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/d/d4x/ http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-deltad/pool/universe/i/ivman/ Its our 1.x release - the archive is only available

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] possible error in gen-kernel builder script

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Tony schreef: 1) This option does *not* add a ? at the end of each line sed -i 's/^\([^ ?]+\)$/\1 ?/' $i 2) This option (the fixed version of the original) *does* add a question mark at the end of each line sed -i 's/^\([^ ?][^ ?]*\)$/\1 ?/' $i Can you explain what the difference is between

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] possible error in gen-kernel b

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Greenacre, Evan R CIV NSWCDD, K54 schreef: Sorry if this gets threaded wrong. But the SED script, the plus sign doesn't work unless its escaped: sed -i 's/^\([^ ?]\+\)$/\1 ?/' $i Doesn't that make it a literal plus instead of a regex plus? ___

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNS wiki: Error in licensing info for content

2009-08-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: I made the changes in the theme. Could you please take a look at it and verify that everything is alright?[1] Changes to this version of the theme include: * Corrected license information in maguila.tmp * Corrected horizontal scrolling in maguila.css[2] *

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNS wiki: Error in licensing info for content

2009-08-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: http://www.gnewsense.org/LicenceInformationUpdate/LicenceInformationUpdate Suggestions/corrections to the text? If you insist. :) - s/August 21/August 21, 2009/ (I prefer dates in full, especially on websites of free software projects. I find that it's sometimes hard to

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [KFV] no reference for sv_addr.agh

2009-08-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
crap0101 schreef: Hi, I need a piece of advice regarding a file i'm checking for KFV, this: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--include--asm-cris--arch-v10--sv-addr-agh The file is too long, i cut some lines here http://gnewsense.pastebin.com/m3e6855a5 (there are

[Gnewsense-dev] Download button SVG

2009-08-25 Thread Sam Geeraerts
I finally managed to figure out how to scale our download button in SVG format [1]. A blueprint for Inkscape [2] pointed me in the right direction. I'm using a manually edited copy of the button now [3]. I added these attributes to the svg element: preserveAspectRatio=xMinYMin meet viewBox=0

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Download button SVG

2009-08-26 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: El mar, 25-08-2009 a las 22:47 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió: I'll figure out some other time why linking from the button (object element) doesn't work. I tryed in different ways to do that too but the only thing that works is creating the link in the svg

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Download button SVG

2009-08-26 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: El mié, 26-08-2009 a las 20:01 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió: Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: El mar, 25-08-2009 a las 22:47 +0200, Sam Geeraerts escribió: I'll figure out some other time why linking from the button (object element) doesn't work. I

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 9wm - No FSF Free

2009-08-29 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - schreef: Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: El vie, 28-08-2009 a las 23:48 +0100, Marco Oliva escribió: The argument that there's a strongly-implied right to modify is unlikely to fly in many countries outside the US. -

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Inkscape crashes

2009-09-02 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: Inkscape crashes on startup. I ran it with no args, and it displayed a small window for a short time so fast I could not see it. On the xterm it says something about GC Warning: Out of Memory. The machine has swap space so I doubt no memory was available. I tried

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Inkscape crashes

2009-09-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: I ran inkscape under strace. The output is almost 1 meg. Does anyone want to look at it? I'm no expert, but I'm willing to give it a try. ___ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Possible bug in gnome-art

2009-09-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Ice Cube schreef: Hi, There is a possible bug in gnome-art. - No preview Previewing GNOME backgrounds works fine here when I click the Preview button. Previewing application themes doesn't work. - No well install of theme Confirmed. - The software have a

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] About gNewSense Draft document

2009-09-11 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo schreef: Hello all, I wrote a draft of the document about gNewSense that is part of the documentation team projects[1] and I'd like to ask if you could revise it and comment about it. * Introduction: - find out what gNewSense is * What is gNewSense: - The

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] libXprintAppUtil 1.0.1 - Bugs

2009-09-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Marco Oliva schreef: The program libxprintapputil version 1.0.1 has, in my opinion, some critical bugs: 1º - In the COPYING file there is no license. 2º - In the files libXprintAppUtil-1.0.1/src/xpapputil.c and libXprintAppUtil-1.0.1/include/X11/XprintAppUtil/xpapputil.h are written:

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Hurd

2009-10-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Tekk schreef: I was just wondering how hard it would be for us to port Gnewsense over to Hurd when it's done, can anybody give some information on that? As we will be moving to a Debian base and Debian has a Hurd port [1], we could just copy that. But let's talk again *if* it's done. [1]

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [KFV] no licence for shannon.h

2009-10-07 Thread Sam Geeraerts
crap0101 schreef: Hi, Update: attached is the mail i send to the author and his answer. Fist, he said he's not really the author :) The code as been taken from a post by comp.os.inferno (link at bug 352's page), truly written by him (from arcshannon.c), but heavy modified by someone and put in

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Yeeloong wireless issue dissected

2009-10-26 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Ted Smith schreef: On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:58 +, Frederique W. Piccart wrote: The solution? Keep reinstalling the base system until you end up in situation 2 I am incredibly skeptical of any solution that consists in doing the same thing over and over and anticipating different results.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

2009-10-28 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi, I packaged a deblobbed derivative of Linux 2.6.30.9 from Lemote's loongson branch. After tonite's archive regeneration, yeeloong/metad users will be able to install it with: sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.30.9-libre++ If you use the wireless chip, don't

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

2009-10-29 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Ignore (almost) all my previous rambling, I had set the wrong partition as root. When properly configured I notice the following: - The brightness still changes (to brighter) right after Linux starts. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a feature or a bug. Brightness going down after some

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

2009-11-01 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi, I packaged a deblobbed derivative of Linux 2.6.30.9 from Lemote's loongson branch. When I plug in a FAT formatted USB device I get an error that it can't be mounted. dmesg says: FAT: IO charset GBK not found ___

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

2009-11-02 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Frederique W. Piccart schreef: So far my experience: Bad pointers: - Still have to press Fn + F5 to make wireless active each time I boot. The wifi LED on mine comes on right before logon screen. - When browsing with Epiphany (just starting it and it begins to load), when on wireless, the

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

2009-11-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Wu Zhangjin schreef: Seems the latest EC shut the backlight off when Fn + F2 is pressed, and if we do it in kernel again, it fails to resume the original brightness, even if I save/restore the original brightness manually. (This is exactly an interface problem between EC and Kernel) Just fixed

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback

2009-11-19 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Frederique W. Piccart schreef: Compared to the previous kernel that had been put up a week or two ago, nothing much changed for me, wireless got worse. It seems, regardless if you press Fn + F5 at boot or not, that radio will always be off at the beginning. Shortly after this there is a 40 - 50

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback

2009-11-20 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Wu Zhangjin schreef: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:29 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: Frederique W. Piccart schreef: Compared to the previous kernel that had been put up a week or two ago, nothing much changed for me, wireless got worse. It seems, regardless if you press Fn + F5 at boot

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] mesa 7.0.3 rc2 - some files licenses

2009-11-23 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Oh, I missunderstood. Then I guess someone should file a bug in Debian? Probably. Let's see what FSF have to say about it first. Karl also contacted FOSSology to see if any other code has a similar issue. Please don't get the impression that Debian ignores all

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Niklas Cholmkvist schreef: snip A window pops up saying: Cannot mount volume. The volume uses the ext2 file system which is not supported by our system.. The 2.6.30.9 kernel can mount it without problems. Perhaps a config option was not set? Yes, ext2 is not added by default, Daniel Clark have

[Gnewsense-dev] FAQ update: gNewSense 3.0

2009-11-28 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Here's an update proposal for the last question in the FAQ [1]: Q: Will gNewSense 3.0 be based on Debian instead of Ubuntu, and why? A: Yes, because: * Debian separates free and non-free software better, so it's easier to make a fully free derivative out of it, * Debian supports the

[Gnewsense-dev] metad i386 installation

2009-12-01 Thread Sam Geeraerts
I just did a metad i386 installation on my laptop using mini.iso from [1]. I had to do just a base installation because my partition was too small for a full desktop install. In the hardware recognition at the beginning it asks me if I want to install non-free firmware from an external medium

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] netdev group

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: I've been told that after a new metad install, default user is not part of netdev group. Please can someone help figure out why? The simplest test I can think of is checking whether this problem is specific to mipsel/yeeloong port, or also happens with metad i386 /

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi, metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ This beta release is very preliminar and not intended to be heavily publicised. It is only intended for members of the gNewSense

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: - System - Admin - Software Sources doesn't start. We'll probably need some files for gNS in /usr/share/python-apt/templates/. - System - Admin - Update Manager: same thing. Could you run it from a term to see what output it provides? thanks, kk See attachment.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad i386 installation

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:04:13PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: In the hardware recognition at the beginning it asks me if I want to install non-free firmware from an external medium (missing firmware = isl3886), with a default selection of Yes. Not something we'd want

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad i386 installation

2009-12-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Jason Self schreef: On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:57 PM, aurele wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:07 -0800, Jason Self wrote: Recommending nonfree software is certainly not good, but maybe it's a good idea to leave the non-free hardware detection code in place and instead change the message to encourage

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs

2009-12-06 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:28:03AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00323 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559444 I think they might have a point here. I'd say we run it by licensing@ to get a third opinion, but they've been

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs

2009-12-08 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00360 there is a test for it in source, but the packages don't depend on it... reinclude? I've added a comment to the bug report. I think it's ok to reinclude it. For good measure we could reopen the bug, change importance to minor and add

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] status of freedom bugs

2009-12-09 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00323 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559444 I think they might have a point here. Point confirmed in linux-libre mailing list [1]. I think this can go back in. [1]

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] grub-yeeloong

2009-12-13 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:37:37PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: I've just finished a new install myself. After a load /dev/fs/e...@wd0c/boot/grub.elf I'm getting the grub menu, but just with plain looks instead of the gNewSense theme. Maybe that's because I only did

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] grub-yeeloong

2009-12-15 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:12:51PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: A was a bit quick to send this email. My grub configuration is also broken now it seems. When I try to boot I get Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Are you

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] grub-yeeloong

2009-12-17 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:12:51PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: A was a bit quick to send this email. My grub configuration is also broken now it seems. When I try to boot I get Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Are you

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] network-manager 0.7 backport repository for metad mipsel (yeeloong)

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Danny Clark schreef: Will probably be in main repo soon, but some more testing couldn't hurt. (1) Make the below 4-line stanza your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/network-manager.list file (2) Run this command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \ --recv-keys 7E2BF282 (3) apt-get

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] network-manager 0.7 backport repository for metad mipsel (yeeloong)

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Danny Clark schreef: Will probably be in main repo soon, but some more testing couldn't hurt. Tried it with kernel 2.6.31.6-libre1. When I boot and log in everything is peachy: it connects with wired interface OK and when I unplug that I'm immediately connected

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] grub-yeeloong

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Robert Millan schreef: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:12:51PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: A was a bit quick to send this email. My grub configuration is also broken now it seems. When I try to boot I get Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Add a gnu to the penguin

2009-12-20 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Richard Stallman schreef: When my machine boots, it displays a penguin. AFAIK this is the mascot of linux-libre. On my machine it shows ordinary Tux. Currently only the kernels built by Alexandre show the linux-libre mascot (for a fraction of a second). They are available from the

[Gnewsense-dev] Re: 2.6.32.2-libre-lemote and 2.6.31.9-libre2-lemote

2009-12-22 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Daniel Clark schreef: Is suspend-to-ram working for other people in 2.6.32.2-libre-lemote, or any other 2.6.32+ build on the yeeloong? For me a fan still stays on when suspended. Confirmed. On the plus side I haven't gotten linux kernel oopses in 2.6.32.2-libre-lemote so far, and unloading

[Gnewsense-dev] Gnash snapshots for Lemote

2009-12-24 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Rob Savoye schreef: Getting 0.8.6 (the last stable release) into gNewSense would be a good step. All the popular sites are always changing, so when it comes to free flash support, you often need to use the very latest from trunk. That's why I build snapshots, which usually are pretty stable,

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