August 2003 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

i8500 / red hat / kernel upgrade / acpi / LVM
by Stephen Pearce 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

HELP!!! Hi All! Just got an inspiron 8500/1G/60G/dvd+rw,cdrom/etc Successifully installed rh9.0 .. then upgraded to a patched kernel from an rpm package better .. but not perfectly, optomised for the 8500 power management. Instituted LVM, with no physiscal boot partition as this is what someone who posted a fix for rh on the 8500 .. and it sounded like a good idea. Bit frustrated by lack of support, still for power management even in the patched kernel .. so grabbed a 2.5.75 kernel ..and also a 2.6.0test4 kernel from kernel.org .. compiled ok and installed to grub loader .. .. root=LABEL=/ but it won't mount root and hangs at this point. I tried changing root to /dev/hda2 .. which is where I put linux (hda0 is the dell maintainance partition and hda1 is xp .. yes got it to load and even recompiled to get ntfs support .. successfully) I presume this is some arcane problem with LVM .. any ideas .. next step might be to start from scratch and get rid of LVM. Many thanks Stephen

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WLUG meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Today is 25/08/2003 The WLUG meeting is tonight Monday 25 August, 7:30pm Introduction to the BSD Family of Operating Systems, presented by MatthewLuckie. Location: CrawshawSchool. Synopsis to be announced. Stay tuned. _________________________________________________________________

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checkinstall
by S Swami 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

It was mentioned in the meeting tonight that installing from source was troublesome for package management systems in that installed files are not recorded in any database. This makes uninstalling difficult. The program 'checkinstall' goes some way in alleviating the problem. It works very well with Slackware packages; I don't know about rpms or debs. See: http://checkinstall.izto.org/ Regards, Sid.

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RE: [wlug] Linux in schools
by Matthew Browne (DSL HN) 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

> From: Daniel Lawson [mailto:daniel(a)meta.net.nz] > > I know that one of the largest complaints from Photoshop > users about The Gimp is the retraining time needed. Without > going into the fact that you can get The Gimp in win32 > anyway, or without discussing relative merits of the two > applications, if you are doing a course on graphic design, > and The Gimp will do everything you need, then why not use it? Well first I have to say I agree with your basic point here but I really think this is a bad example. Gimp may have the same basic functionality as Photoshop but it's nowhere near as usable. Dropping a newbie in Gimp would put them off the Graphic Design industry for life. Besides, most books on the subject refer to Photoshop's implementation. I agree this is not ideal but until Gimp improves and other factors (like books, etc) are addressed I don't think anything will change. That said Gimp can be very handy at times and certainly isn't lacking functionality. Just using 1c here. Never know when I might need the other 1c. Matt Browne

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RE: [wlug] Linux in schools
by Matthew Browne (DSL HN) 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

> From: Perry Lorier [mailto:perry(a)coders.net] > > Recent version of The Gimp have changed the useability a lot, > for instance by making the "right click" menu permanently > dock'd into the top of the image window by default, which > tends to avoid the "what on earth do I do now?" problem. Actually I was comparing a very recent version of Gimp I have here at work, it was at the same point release at least. Just upgraded to the latest and I can't say I see much difference in the UI and I really don't think that menu thing helps much. Photoshop on the other hand I haven't really used intensively since version 5.5 so if anything, I'm possibly underestimating the difference. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Photoshop has a perfect interface or anything but Gimp's is pretty awful in comparison. Matt Browne

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Linux in schools
by Terry Cole 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Folks, With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been having, I am keen to try a Linux option at our high school. I have RH 9 Web server that performs great, no downtime. I have spoken with our board chair who is also on my side. For workstations and server what OS and Apps should I use? We need 'Office', 'Corel', 'Internet', 'E-mail', 'Publisher'. I want to put a small network together to show the staff. Any suggestions would be great. Cheers Terry Cole Rotorua, New Zealand mailto:terry(a)cole.gen.nz http://www.cole.gen.nz http://www.websnz.com

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Swap not enabling
by Gene Smith 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

Hi guys, I haven't booted with linux for a few months, but when there was talk of a possible newbies class I thought I had better get a little more familiar. Whan I choose redhat 9 as the duel boot option it started booting but got stuck at enabling the swap and it won't go any further. Any clues as to a fix? Thanks :) _________________________________________________________________ Check out the Xtra gaming servers at http://xtramsn.co.nz/gaming !

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Next RHEL to be completely Free?
by Craig Box 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

"Taroon (the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux) ships with version 2.1 of the open source Eclipse Development Environment. Eclipse requires a Java virtual machine to run, but Taroon doesn't ship with one." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228480,00.asp While the article is short on information, it inspires me with hope that due to Red Hat Inc's new position on 'only OSS software in their distribution' that the entirety of RHEL 3 will fall under the GPL and it will be copyable for those who want the stable platform but don't want commercial support. Craig

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ride to the next meeting available from Ham East
by S Swami 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

Hi, Glyn and I will be taking a car from Hamilton East to Monday's meeting. So if anyone would like a lift there and/or back, just drop one of us an email. Note that given the terrain that our ramblings span, it is unlikely that we will be taking the shortest path. Indeed, I cannot even guarantee that the route will be acylic -or even directed for that matter- ;) Sid.

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Gallery
by Daniel Appleton 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

My gallery (http://gallery.dapples.net.nz/) seems to have broken itself. Anyone have any ideas as to what has gone wrong? Daniel http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search

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