On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > > But before blaming the 2.6.35 kernel prematurely, please note that I am seeing > similar keyboard input issues with Yoper. What I need to study with VMFusion > is whether there's any semantic meaning to identifying a kernel as > Other 2.6 kernel > rather than a vendor-specific choice. Yoper might well be using a 2.6.35 > kernel too. > > I'll know more as I create additional VM's for buildbot's. >
Here's a couple more data points in case you are interested in fixing. These notes are wrto the latest OpenMAMBA livedvd iso. There's something wrong at the inital splash screen (and that's pre-kernel load iirc). I cannot use arrow keys, and unless I click focus and hit either CR or DOWN-CR almost immediately, the install just hangs there. If/when I succeed, install proceeds to loading KDE, but then screen goes dark. That's where CTRL-ALT-DEL leads me to a login prompt. I finally got CTRL-ALT-F2 to do _SOMETHING_. Turns out its a 4 key sequence needed to send CTRL-ALT-F2 (I'm gonna need to use my toes soon, sigh) and the (black window after KDE load) resizes. I think I tried CTRL-ALT-F2 at the login prompt after CTRL-ALT-DEL too will double check). In both cases I end-up with a hung install. YOPER uses 2.6.33 and also has "ZEN SMP PREEMPT". Both YOPER and OpenMAMBA are installing with KDE which needs more than 256Mb to succeed. Sadly YOPER doesn't yet have a functional initrd, so the YOPER VM goes onto a shelf until I get some time to kernel fuss-a-bout. Otherwise YOPER/OpenMAMBA installs with KDE are both gorgeous, and with sensible (IMNSHO) packaging methodology. And Ark is just too weird for me to figure out. So I'll take a shot at Scientific Linux in a VM, and perhaps a random wild stab at installing OJUBA and/or MeeGO to test the waters, and then I gotta get to "continuous integration" under buildbot.rpm5.org resurrection. I can/will test whatever you got in OpenMAMBA, time permitting. But milestone2 is gud enuf to start getting @rpm5.org stable in OpenMAMBA. If you can send along config.log output (or even better, send a patch to debtool.conf), then I will arrange to build @rpm5.org with exactly the same build options as you are using in OpenMAMBA. No hurry (and no need, my maximal functionality build options are enough to find issues/bugs and fix reproducible problems). hth 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
