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Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 04:42 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>win4lin packages are supposed to be updated in the 9.2 contrib tree ...
>>but I have had no response from Lenny ...
>>
>
> Shouldn't the win4lin packages from the original kernel be made
available to
> for people that have chosen not to upgrade the kernel.  As long as the
> original kernel is available in the tree, the packages that go with it
should
> remain available.  Although if that .10 kernel is getting pulled
because of
> the LG business, then the related win4lin packages could be pulled also.

All kernel-related packages in the tree (main and contrib) have been
updated now I think. The tmb and mm kernels have already, and Lenny has
just let me know he has updated the win4lin kernels which should appear
on the mirrors soon.

> Maybe there needs to be a updates directory for contrib too.

This has been discussed before, but there was no final conclusion. In
the meantime we are abusing the MandrakeClub mirrors.

>
>
>>Thanks for the report though!
>>
>>(BTW, win4lin-utils-3-6mdk should fix all issues related to links in
>>/boot etc which were not quite working before)
>>
>
> Yes, the initrd link was set up properly this time, although I have
lost my
> bootsplash with the .21 kernel.  I am not sure if it is something I
have done
> or if it is a packaging problem.

I don't think it's a packaging problem, the 3 kernels I tested with (I
didn't have smp or enterprise kernels, so tested the normal, i686 and p3
kernels) all got bootsplash.

You may want to check what
/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/detect-resolution says ...

Regards,
Buchan

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