Alpha Core 1.0a

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Hello,

Thank you very much for this detailed report. I hope we will try to 
resolve the issues.

Adding the following to yum config will give you access to updates 
released by Red Hat for FC3.

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/updates/alpha/

Unfortunatelly, the packages are not tested very much, but with your 
help we could get it working.

Thanks,

Andrija Pantovic wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I upgraded my AlphaCore 0.9 with provided packages and did some tests.
>Here is what I found:
>
>- KERNEL
>
>- the provided kernel package 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 is actualy 2.6.11-rc2
>with additional patches including those Alpha related
>- Qlogic ISP10x0 driven by qla1280 driver (instead of old qlogcisp)
>works ok
>- alsa seems to run properly finaly (on my built in ESS1888 in PWS600)
>- USB built in controller (Contaq Microsystems 82c693) is initialised
>properly (a very new thing)
>- iptables is reporting "Invalid argument" trying to add entry in "nat"
>table - recompilation of user space utilities did not help. My kernel
>build based on 2.6.10-1.766_FC3  source RPM with Alpha based patches
>from 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 (a bit modified) fixed the problem but my USB
>controller is not initialised now (the ohci USB host seems to be fixed
>in 2.6.11-rc2 patch)
>- boot sequence take a long time on 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 during
>rc.sysinit execution. I found that hotplug scsi takes enormous time. The
>problem disappeared with 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
>
>- XORG
>
>- the provided Xorg v.6.8.1 does not work on my PWS600 with Matrox G200
>(it is segfaulting). I fixed the problem downgrading to xorg packages
>xorg-x11* to 6.7.0 from AlphaCore 0.9 and it looks ok so far. The
>problem with 6.8.1 seems to be the missing Alpha specific elfloader
>relocations - type 10 R_ALPHA_SREL32 (the patch for this one already
>exists and is applied in 6.7.0 AlphaCore package) and type 28
>R_ALPHA_BRSGP (there is no patch and should be written)
>
>- XIMIAN EVOLUTION
>
>- I depend quite much on this package but it does not work -
>evolution-dataserver is constantly crashing. I tried building the latest
>stable evolution package (v.2.0.4) but compilation failed. I succeeded
>building development source RPMs from FC3 (v.2.1.5) and it works
>decently well so far (just writing this e-mail in it)
>
>- SCREEN
>
>- the supplied package does not contain the Alpha specific patch needed
>so it does not work - problem fixed installing the patched package from
>AlphaCore 0.9
>
>I tested many other components (md RAID, KDE, gaim, firefox, Mozilla,
>xmms, xchat, rdesktop, vnc, vtund, ssh, xterm ... etc.)  and general
>impression after mentioned fixes is that system works quite well - great
>job guys !
>
>Regards
>
>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:21 +0200, Balint Cristian wrote:
>  
>
>>	Hi folks,
>>
>>	After a timeout and slow development of alpha core, me [Cristian Balint]
>>and a new volunteer Sergey Tikhonov, finaly developed next release of alpha core 1.0
>>wich is equivalent with fedora-FC3 but with lots of alpha specific fixes.
>>
>>
>>	Unfortunatley Mike Barnes haven't the time these days to take major part of
>>development on this new tree, so we decided to release AlphaCore 1.0a now as-is.
>>
>>	The main personality of the tree is the fact the Sergely fixed some important
>>threading suport in glibc to switch corectly between nptl and linuxthreads, so application 
>>run more stable and few bugs present even in 0.9 are gone now. The second major thing 
>>is the kernel, we used 2.6.10 because between 2.6.6<>2.6.10 the mainline kernel was 
>>broken for alpha, and we disable few things wich are unstable/unusable for alpha arch. 
>>In rest everything else is fedora specific changes between FC2-->FC3.
>>
>>
>>	We release this under the version "1.0a" and plan that "1.0" version will be 
>>marked only on the final iso images.
>>
>>	The iso images will be based exact on that curent tree, unless someone discover 
>>something showstopper thing to fix, and will try in a mather of 2 weeks to pack it.
>>
>>So, the path to AlphaCore 1.0a tree:
>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/
>>
>>And olso there is a yum config file wich point to this tree:
>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/yum.conf-1.0a
>>
>>	Mirrors are welcome, testers and volunteers are welcome, any feedback suggestions are accounted 
>>in the final iso pack.
>>
>>
>>Thank you all,
>>~cristian
>>
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