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Re: [cooker-axp] Good God, it works!

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> > > booted and ran with very few difficulties. I haven't tried anything advanced
> > > like X or (and here I may be realy pushing my luck) KDE, but I can log in,
> > > access remote FTP sites via my firewall and compile a new kernel.
>
> > The last time I checked (7mdk of XFree86 4.0.3) it built fine on the Alpha.
>
> Compiling doesn't always mean working. In my case XF86 was able to
> freeze the keyboard, and the screen wouldn't react to mouseclicks either
> (only mouse-movement). As I recall, this _only_ happened with KDE for
> some reason.
>

So, the problem is only with KDE? And not any other WM? How about other
input devices like the mouse?

> > I can't verify for now since things are automated around here, I guess the
> > build scripts haven't had the time to build a newer XFree86 yet.
> Build scripts are a bit whack at the moment :-/
>
> > For KDE, I've also verified that it compiles.
> Be carefull with kde.
>
> > I'm quite sure that it works but:
> > If you are not sure just give it a try and report back here, or if you know
> > that it's a program problem, not a packaging problem, then you can report
> > back to the maintainer of the software component.
>
> Could someone also do some testing with NFS? I'm getting some stale
> filehandles. I'm not sure if it's an alpha only problem though.
>

Somehow, we got stale NFS handles @ kenobi as well.

> > > security level chosen, but for those not using the installer, it might be nice
> > > if it contained a default entry of 'tty1'.
>
> > I believe that you should login as normal user and then su to root. In
> > terms of security it is a bit safer than allowing direct root tty logins.
> It's kinda tough to do this right after a rocky install.
>

Yep, but that's only because we don't have a proper installer for the Alpha
platform yet ... in particlar, we need a BOOT kernel.

-- 
Geoffrey Lee <snailtalk@linux-mandrake.com>
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$ /usr/games/fortune
Anything that can go wrong will go
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ 

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