Re: Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:14:52 +0200 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Is it just me or is testing karmic currently impossible? Here it started with $HOME/.xsession(rc) being ignored, after some wrestling and updates the GUI was gone completely. Then I did a reinstall of alpha5 on a fresh

Re: Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/9/15 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop- amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track? Go to bed and test some more tomorrow. There's been some fairly major changes in the boot process, including stuff like dbus and gdm

Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-15 Thread Markus Hitter
Is it just me or is testing karmic currently impossible? Here it started with $HOME/.xsession(rc) being ignored, after some wrestling and updates the GUI was gone completely. Then I did a reinstall of alpha5 on a fresh partition. Right after installation the OS worked, but automatic updates

rt2870sta versus rt2800

2009-09-15 Thread Paul S
It looks like linus has committed changes in the wifi ralink driver in the final release of 2.6.31. But, karmic's kernel still includes the binary built rt2870sta (and rt2860sta). I have the hardware and would like to test this new code. Do the kernel dev's know about the change or do I