Bug#404503: Wrong characters typed using dead keys

2007-12-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
tch to kbd, and report any (other) problems you encounter doing so, as to help the transition. Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or a

Building a modified xen kernel

2006-10-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on a DebianĀ  amd64-xen kernel, but can't figure outhow to do it. I can do it on a plainer kernel , but not a Xen variant. Hows it supposed to be done?- Alastair McKinstry

Bug#390857: linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc: Upgrade sarge -> etch fails

2006-10-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc Version: 2.6.17-9 Severity: important Upgrade from starge to etch fails on my Pegasos system, as 2.6.8-powerpc to 2.6.17-powerpc fails. Below is the apt-get -f install output, with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer Regards Alastair apt-get -f install Reading packag

Bug#387310: fails to compile without legacy scsi proc included

2006-09-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: linux-source-2.6.17 Version: 2.6.17-8 Severity: normal Building linux-source-2.6.17-8: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o: In function `sd_iostats_init': (.text+0xe1c88): undefined reference to `proc_scsi' drivers/built-in.o: In function `sd_iostats_fini': (.text+0xe1e84)

Re: Out of tree kernel images / Lustre image

2006-08-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
How about the mISDN kernel modules as a format? I.e. preparing both patches (ie linux-patch-lustre.deb) that build on top of the kernel(s) (vanilla and debian) and modules that install direct on the relevant kernels shipped in etch? This is what I am currently working on. Regards Alastair McKinst

Bug#337663: initramfs-tools: droping in rescue shell has no loadkeys and do not default to right keymap.

2005-11-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Sven Luther wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Severity: normal Well, as said, it is rather painful when one is dropped in the rescue shell, to have it default to us keymap, even though you have another kind of keyboard layout (azerty for me). At least it should include the loadkeys binary as wel

Bug#336567: postinst fails runnng modprobe on 'ext3,ext2'

2005-10-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.11-10 Severity: serious I have an /etc/fstab with lines of the form: /dev/hda2 / ext3,ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1 ie. for filesystem, try ext3 first, if this cannot be done, use ext2. Recent versions of mount understand this syntax, but ya