Release Candidates :: DSL-2.0RC1



Not sure if these are bugs but...

ACPI
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Using the USB boot parameters apm=off & acpi=force does not result in the ACPI modules being loaded at boot. After manually loading the modules battery, button, fan, processor, thermal & ac the ACPI stuff seems to work - are these meant to load automatically in DSL 2.0?

PCMCIA
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I can see the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file has a lot more detail in it than the same file in DSL 1.5 but I still cannot edit it as /root or using /etc/init.d/mkwriteable, is this meant to be the case?

Also from boot messages after loading Card Manager, I noticed DSL 1.5 can see my Texas Instruments smartcard reader but does not recognise it. DSL 2.0 does not see it at all.
When you load the same dsl (say barrage.dsl) twice using emelfm and "mydsl" you get multiple dsl menu entries.  This didn't happen in 1.4

The command prompt changed for root.  Did we want it changed or did it work better before with the username and path?  I like the old way better.

I don't like the single click icons, but it's not a democracy and I understand that.

Aside from that, thanks for the bcm5700 network driver, the additional cloops, and especially for the kernel and config file.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 15 2005,01:49)
alsa ".o" driver modules are compiled for a specific kernel version, so the alsadebs.dsl extension will not work with 2.0rc1

The alsa deb packages were taken from KNOPPIX 3.4 with very little tweaking on my part.

Unfortunately, KNOPPIX is now exclusively based on the 2.6 kernel so I can't just steal them from a newer version of KNOPPIX.

It might be possible to get them from a Debian branch (experimental?), but otherwise a recompile from source and then repackaging the files with the autodetection scripts will need to be done from scratch, and at the moment I am not ready to take on  a task with this level of involvement.

Any takers?

cbagger, I took this on and submitted a dsl to extensions.  The kernel sources and config file that John put out there for RC2.0 make creating modules so much easier than it was before.  It's a great thing to have the whole thing there for when you need it.
Does xmms work for playing a CD for anyone else in 2.0?  I tried but it would not work.  I booted dsl toram, and then chose Xmms Play Cd from the menu.  I chose /dev/cdrom for the location.  Has anyone else tried to play an audio CD?  MP3s work fine for me.
I tried DSL2.0-RC1 Embedded but my mainboard is not recognized correctly. My mainboard is MSI 845E Max (MS-6566E v1.X) ATX based on Intel 845E & ICH4 chipset (designed for Pentium4). I see "Pentium II (Klamath) 1570 Mhz  128 mb".
Programs seems to work well.
DSL-0.9.3 Embedded's hardware recognization is correct.
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