[Frugalware-devel] fwlive-0.7.1

[Gabriel C]

VMiklos wrote:
> Na Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:17:34AM +0200, Gabriel C <crazy at frugalware.org> pisal(a):
>> This is broken and does not work. The whole Theme is broken here.
>> 1). I  get a 'black' box on the left with some numbers.
> 
> maybe could you try in qemu? if it works for you there (it does here)
> then we know that it's really some hardware problem (the theme is made
> by ironiq, you should poke him)

Poked on IRC already :) Yes work on 'quemu' but is why I test this time on real hardware.

Is not the first time something works on quemu but real and what we want is to make it work from 'CD' no ?

Anyway I don't think is my hardware I have some other LiveCD's here too , with the same ( well gfxmenu with lang and other options )
menu and all are fine.


> 
>> 2) .The 'Live' part is missing a vga= and quiet part
> 
> adding quiet is up to janny :) vga should be added by gfxmenu

Well quiet should be there cause without is really weird. Which is added from qemu but on real boot :-D

( Theme is buggy or we miss something in initrd or  the like , I'll spend some time this week to figure the live scripts )

> 
>> 3) f2 -> LNAG DE boots EN
> 
> it seems to be ok here, for example the "restoring previous settings
> from a config file" prints "überfoo" instead of "skipping" which must be
> something German :)

This may be the same bug as the other 'not' working things from the theme.

> 
>> Alsa startup drops weird errors ( is too fast to see what the errors are sorry ) , I didn't got sound at all.
> 
> using lsmod, can you check if there are some unnecessary loaded or
> missing modules? sound seems to be ok on my machine

I saw yet is some mixer error but is really to fast read the whole text .. I'll try to boot debug or so maybe I can see more.

> 
>> Network does not work here ( I have 3 network cards ). We should  have :
> 
>> 1) an earyload=mod,mod,mod from initrd
> 
>> or
> 
>> 2) an blacklist=mod,mod,mod from initrd
> 
>> or
> 
>> 3) both
> 
>> So one can tell what card to use. ( eg: early load foo_mod_for_card BAZ or even blacklist all the others etc )
> 
>> ( feel free to poke me on that if you don't know what I mean )
> 
> by default eth0 tries to use dhcp, i think you mean this could be
> changed so that for example eth1 could try to request dhcp, right?
> 

Yes the first card eg: the build-in one is always eth0 ( if you got 2 then the one you set from  BIOS ).

We have this problem on initramfs as well , is why I have blacklist= ..

Well we use broken mdev from BB for the live stuff which trust me does not work ( you'll just notice it does not once you get an modular kernel :P )
so we can't even play with udev rules here. Anyway this may be my problem later to port it so don't care yet ;)

> blacklisting modules is also a good idea, i don't know what plans janny
> has :) blacklist=foo,bar could be a solution then we could parse that
> parameter in rc.hotplug before loading any module :)

As well earlyload because some boxes got really weird BIOS'es and foo need be loaded before bar to make stuff working
but  blacklist first :)

( We can wait for bug reports for the other thingy and implement if really needed )

> 
>> X startup is *should not* ask one about whatever but :
> 
> maybe i misunderstand you but it does not ask currently either

It does ask you about the resolution and popups the :

"Is this fine? press OK  box"

This should have defaults or a parser to set it  auto and boot X away without to bug one about on 'xstart' from command line

> 
>> 1) start away from comandline with defaults
> 
> this is what the current situation

Not here :P


> 
>> 2) this should be a boot option as well IMO
> 
> you mean starting x by default?

Yes, xmode=yes|no ( or whatever it may be called ) from cmdline.

> 
>> We should tell somewho  the fwlive user is using sudo by default ?!
> 
> i think you mean here that 'the fwlive user has sudo', it does not use
> sudo for everything i'm sure :)

No idea :P I just noticed I can use sudo by default  :)

  >
> (i haven't modified TODO yet, but after some discussion i think these
> missing features could be go there)
>

Ok :)


> thanks,
> VMiklos
> 

crazy