Experiences with severn and 2.6 kernel on a dell laptop.

[Laur Ivan]

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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 12:48, Alan Cox wrote:
> > decided to try again. this time with no probing devices. poof again in
> > the same spot. Subsequently I tried the *extreme method*: let the initial
> > image load and remove the firewire connection while starting the
> > installer. ..and voila! it worked. Of course, it wouldn't load the sbp2
> > module (hang again), but I decided I could live without for the install
> > time. So off I went with the network install...
>
> (boot option "nofirewire" 8))

 d'oh! :)

>
> >  The sound is OK. The sound applications are not. I understand that there
> > are issues with licensing various codecs (mp3), but one should be
> > provided with some lines: "we don't have it, but you can get it here and
> > compile it yourself". IMHO, xmms is rather useless without mp3 support
> > since most
>
> Red Hat is a free software company. You can get mp3 modules from a variety
> of locations but obviously remember to obey your local laws - this is
> especially an issue in the USA

I understand the legals. I'm just saying a document of links where to get 
stuff from would be nice. I'm sure something along these lines it's going to 
be available (as release notes or otherwise) by thie time severn is released.

>
> >  - when I launched the battery applet (gnome), it crashed with no
> > explanation. KDE would have displayed "battery/power info not available"
> > and the crossed battery icon in the tray. Loaded the acpi modules, and
> > got the applet running with the exclamation mark and red battery
> > (unavailable). No big surprise here
>
> Please bugzilla the applet crash

It's alreay there as 100540.

Cheers,

Laur
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