[ltp] Mandrake 9.1 on A22p - installation report

[Buchan Milne]

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Richard Neill wrote:

> It does work, but be warned that if you are running it at the same time
> as any 3D accelerated application on an A22p, it will crash the X
> server. I've reported a bug on this. It probably works on non-A-series
> fine.

Sorry, I searched briefly on your page, and missed your paragraph on tpb
until just after I sent the mail ...

I don't have any issues with tpb on my 600X, but I don't have a Thinkpad
button of course ;-).

>
>
> Also, I have
>
>> made thinkpad driver RPMs, and tpctl RPMs, which you can get here:
>>
>>
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.1/thinkpad-2.4.21-0.13mdk-4.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
>>
>> http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.1/tpctl-4.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Have you considered submitting them to Mandrake's contrib?
>

I submitted the changes to one of the kernel maintainers (kernel modules
belong in the kernel ...), and the thinkpad drivers are in since kernel
2.4.21-0.15mdk (it was too late for 9.1), and tpctl is in main.

I may consider putting the ones for the 9.1 kernel in the Mandrake Club,
I am also looking at making better packages for ltmodem (which will
probably be on Club for the unofficial kernel update which is coming).

BTW, I have write access to contrib
(http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Buchan_Milne__bgmilne_linux-mandrake.com_.html),
so any other Thinkpad-related packages can easily find their way into
contrib. I didn't have much success myself with tp4d, but I can make a
package for you to test, and it if it works, we can get it in.

Regards,
Buchan

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