Guido Schwarzer wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering whether somebody already (successfully) installed the new
version of SRSS on Debian Lenny.
I tried to install SRSS 4.2 following instructions on
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/sunray-debian/4.2ea.html
. However, applying patch sray42-debian.patch.2009-07-19 resulted in an
error.
Yours,
Guido
Currently I am running a mixed mess of Lenny and Squeeze and 4.2EA works
very well for me on a five year old i686 dual Xeon machine. The whole
pulseaudio stuff is from testing, xkb-data without legacy is fine, but I
dare not upgrade with aptitude now because of some current mdadm and
udev bugs in testing that may break RAID1/LVM. So when I need to install
something I download the package(s) and install them with # dpkg -i
--force-all <package(s)>. Of course you have to know what you might
break thereby but so far it's ok for me in my SOHO environment, and all
these issues are of course not SRSS related. With the right flashplayer
9 version the colors are ok, sound works too. KDE4.3 from Debian testing
is stable and displays nicely with the xrender option turned on, albeit
without Compiz effects and the like due to the lack of certain
extensions in Xnewt.
I am using the later version of the 4.2EA packages, and the installation
needed some tweaking of this and that all of which unfortunately I
cannot remember. But it is possible to get things up and running. I
think I did apply some changes from the patch you mentioned manually
because they must have been made for the earlier 4.2EA packages and did
not fit in some places, but it was not difficult to find out what needed
to be done. And I found and used some patches for 2.6.28 kernels that
were necessary due to some renaming done in the kernel to get the
modules for my 2.6.30 kernel built.
A fix for the webadmin part into which I was not able to login with SRSS
4.1 was also necessary. It was initially described for a SuSE setup,
suggesting to take out a shell variable from a config file to get it
started.
My dhcp setup was essentially adapted from the previous one for 4.1 and
earier SRSS versions, some newer style of entries described somewhere
did not work (perhaps it would on Solaris, dunno).
Further, I can no longer login by xdmcp via GDM (2.20.9-1.1, this is not
the latest version with some loss of functionality needed for SRSS) as I
was able to do with the SRSS 4.1. This needs to be solved soon for
access of my LAN from the laptop. Swapping the PAM entries as described
in a HOW-TO does not help but breaks SRSS as well. I did not want to
bother this list with it so far and had planned to wait until aptitude
can perhaps be used again without breaking mdadm, then install the final
version of SRSS4.2 and report what is still a problem then.
However, I do wonder whether installing the final version of 4.2 (aka 5?
or isn't 4.2 final just part of the SRSS5 package) would after all be
worth the time for an otherwise functioning 4.2EA setup without usage of
bells and whistles (no hot-swapping, no VDI, no kiosk mode)? Perhaps
some list member would like to share some knowledge about this?
HTH, and greetings,
Andreas Heydwolff
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