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Efwisi need to find out the location for the C header files in ubuntu that match the kernel, can someone tell me where they are located?03:53
rtcmEfwis: linux-headers-2.6.12-7 I guess03:56
EfwisI'll look thanks, need the location to install vmware for linux03:56
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fabbionemorning07:09
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mdkehi all01:14
mdkeis it intentional that kernel upgrades leave me with multiple entries in grub? I have 2.6.10, 2.6.12-6 and 2.6.12-7 on a machine with a breezy installed at colony 201:15
chmjyou can remove the others 01:16
fabbionemdke: yes.01:16
fabbionethat's a normal procedure01:16
fabbioneonce you boot in the new one, you can safely remove the old one01:17
mdkeoh01:17
fabbioneit's complex to explain in few words, but that's the correct thing :)01:17
chmjmdke: in case the new one doesnt work, see ?01:17
mdkeyeah01:17
mdkewill that happen for breezy release too?01:17
fabbionechmj: no, that's not the reason01:17
fabbionemdke: the 2.6.12-7 or 2.6.12-9 are not binded to release01:18
fabbionethey are related to some specific changes in the code01:18
mdkeso hoary->breezy updaters will get multiple grub entries?01:18
fabbionemdke: hoary has 2.6.10-whatever...01:18
fabbioneupgrading you will get 2.6.10-whatver and the 2.6.12-something that will be there at release time01:18
mdkeouch01:19
fabbione2.6.10 will be marked as obsoleted01:19
fabbionebut it can't and won't be removed automatically01:19
mdkeimo users don't really want that stuff01:19
mdkeespecially those who don't know what the numbers mean01:19
fabbionemdke: there is no way to remove it01:19
fabbionebecause when you are upgrading hoary -> breezy, you are running 2.6.1001:19
fabbioneand you REALLY REALLY so much do NOT want to remove the running kernel01:20
mdkeis there anyway to have the title of the entry a bit more user friendly? marking one as obsolete will help, perhaps the default one could be titled "ubuntu breezy badger"01:20
mdkeyeah i see the reason01:20
fabbionemdke: pointless.. aptitude will tell you that01:20
mdkeusers don't use aptitude01:20
fabbioneor synaptic01:20
fabbioneor whatever01:20
fabbionethe package is marked as obsolete after the upgrade01:21
mdkehmm01:21
mdkeso you don't think that the grub titles will bother users who don't know what the numbers mean?01:21
fabbionemdke: the latest kernel available is always the default in grub01:22
mdkeokay01:22
fabbioneso if a user doesn't touch anything.. it just boots with the most recent one01:22
mdkesure01:22
fabbione+ you get to have a known to work kernel if the new one doesn't01:22
fabbioneand the latter can unlikely happen01:22
mdkebut when users see the others, they will get confused IMO01:22
fabbionenoone has been complaining till now about it..01:23
fabbioneso i really see no problem in it01:23
mdkeok01:23
fabbionethe user thinks as 2.6.12-7 is higher than 2.6.12-6 .. it must be better..01:23
fabbionethat's the only thing they see01:24
chmjnormal users hardly ever look at the boot process anyway 01:24
mdkechmj, they do if they dual boot windows01:24
chmjhmmm, I suppose 01:25
mdkeanyway, fair enough, i just wanted to ask01:25
mdkethanks fabbione, chmj 01:34
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zulheylo02:08
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mjg59BenC: Hmm. The sk gigabit ethernet stuff is proving to be an issue.03:23
mjg59BenC: We could ship the vendor driver but neuter it so it only binds to devices that aren't supported by the in-kernel one?03:23
BenCthat's a possibility03:24
BenChas there been any reported issues with the vendor driver for all cards?03:25
BenCI know it's ugly code (backported it a long time ago to 2.0.34), but it works everywhere I tried it03:25
BenCnot really ugly, but you can tell that it was ported from the win32 driver03:25
mjg59I haven't /seen/ any reports, but we know that the kernel driver works for most people03:29
mjg59It may be a bit late to start playing with that and risking instability03:29
zulmjg59: is that the yukon ethernet?03:41
zul*sigh* i just love it when a log file fills up a partition03:43
mjg59zul: Yeah03:46
zulah...yeah i think that would be a good idea03:47
zulthen you might want to call it yukon or something and remove it when there is better support for it in the kernel03:48
mjg59Hmm03:48
mjg59Oh argh, I'd forgotten what a nightmare of crap this driver is03:48
mjg59(In terms of its build tree)03:49
zulbecause i saw somewhere that yukon support is coming03:49
mjg59Yeah. With luck, we'll be able to drop it for Breezy+103:49
zulBenC: i could look at it tonight if you want03:49
zulwe will need to find someone to test it though03:50
mjg59zul: I'm hacking a patch to the sk98 driver now. I don't have time to do the kernel integration, though.03:50
mjg59I'll feed you the diff and you can take a look at it03:50
zulsure03:50
mjg59zul: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/tmp/sk98.diff03:54
mjg59It removes all the IDs that the skge driver supports03:54
mjg59So apply that to sk98 and merge sk98 into the tree and things should be happy03:55
BenCsweet03:58
BenCshoot me an email when it's ready. I wont be doing much more today other than looking at email and IRC every so often03:59
zulokie dokie ill do it tonight04:10
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zulBenC: when are you going to do the next upload?04:26
fabbionere05:09
fabbioneBenC: we need to get OCFS2 1.1.1 in asap05:09
fabbionecan you please coordinate with mdz for when to upload with an ABI bump?05:09
fabbionebecause he is stalling us again with some CD issues05:09
fabbionehttp://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/tccboot.html05:22
fabbionei wonder why gentoo didn't implement this 31337 bootloader yet05:22
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zulbecause they suck..05:37
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BenCfabbione: ok05:53
mdzfabbione: pardon?06:11
fabbioneBenC: perfect06:50
fabbionemdz: yesterday you told me to wait because you needed a working CD.. 06:50
fabbionei managed to test the install and it's go for me06:51
fabbionebut not the live :/06:51
BenCI'm downloading i386 and ppc live cd's to make sure they work06:51
fabbionei need to send a super rant mail to my ISP06:51
fabbioneBenC: great06:51
mdzfabbione: the live is the one which was broken06:52
mdzand the one I asked you to test06:52
BenC* Node and architecture local files using Context Dependent Symbolic Links (CDSL)06:53
fabbioneit's still rsyncing from this morning and yes i do run rsync at night06:53
mdzI need to know that we got one working build before another ABI change06:53
BenCis that like DFS cpu/arch/os symlinking?06:53
mdzand this needs to be the last ABI change unless there is a security issue06:53
mdzat least until preview06:53
fabbioneBenC: not sure.. i think so.. but kernel guys didn't like it much06:53
BenCthat's a cool feature06:54
fabbionemdz: it's not like we like ABI changes.. they are required ...06:54
BenCwill make for some nice v9/v9b stuff on sparc :)06:54
fabbionemdz: and we can't always avoid them06:54
mdzfabbione: in this case, it is only needed for OCFS2, right?06:54
fabbioneBenC: eheh06:54
fabbionemdz: for the changes i did, yes.06:54
mdzok, so we need to freeze it after this one06:54
fabbionemdz: but after you bump the abi, no other checks are done06:54
fabbionemdz: this is final.06:55
fabbionefor ocfs2 i mean06:55
fabbionemdz: so BenC or zul might have committed other code that changes the ABI06:55
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BenCmjg59: ping?07:12
mxpxpodwho is in charge of the linux-wlan-ng patches to the kernel?07:12
mjg59BenC: Hi07:13
BenCmjg59: any idea id vga16fb has been tested in 8bpp mode?07:13
BenCs/id/if07:13
mjg59Uhm. The "16" in the name is a giveaway :)07:13
BenCwith usplash it is coming up in 4bit07:13
mjg59It's 16 colour legacy VGA only07:13
BenCthe driver supports 8bpp07:14
mjg59Seriously?07:14
BenC        if (info->var.bits_per_pixel == 4) {07:14
BenC        } else if (info->var.bits_per_pixel == 0) {07:14
BenC        } else {        /* 8bpp */07:14
mjg59Uhm.07:14
BenCcheckes for it all over the place07:14
mjg59Oh07:15
mjg59In 320x200 it might support 256 colours07:15
BenCdoesn't look like it forces any certain resolution07:16
fabbioneAH GREAAAATTTTT!!!07:16
BenCvga16fb_check_var() looks like it will accept it07:16
fabbionersync.. connection timeout...07:16
fabbioneblabla07:16
mjg59VGA hardware doesn't support more than 16 colours in 640x480, TTBOMK07:16
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mjg59BenC: But if you want to test it, please feel free :)07:17
BenCI'm not too fluent on vga specs, but the driver is reading like VGA 8bpp is possible07:18
BenCif the windows installer can do it, we can do it, right? :)07:18
mjg59Windows installer does 16 colours in that resolution07:19
mjg59I think, anyway07:19
mjg59Kconfig says:07:19
mjg59"This is the frame buffer device driver for VGA 16 color graphic cards"07:19
mjg59But, well.07:19
BenCI'll see if it allows fbset to change the bpp07:20
BenCif it does, and it works, I'll get you a patch for usplash to call the correct ioctl's, and we'll see if it fixes things for folks having problems07:21
mjg59Ok07:21
BenCif it does, then debian-installer can use the ioctl's aswell07:21
mxpxpodif I want to file a bug against the kernel, what package do I put in my bug report?07:39
jbaileyDoes qemu actually fire up grub and all that, or does it just chain to the new running kernel?07:56
zul if i remember it does the grub 07:57
jbaileyCool, thanks.07:57
fabbione<seklos> we ll drop the cdsl stuff out of ocfs208:08
fabbioneBenC: don't rely on that CDSL feature for too long :(08:08
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zulmxpxpod: linux08:10
mxpxpodzul: thanks08:10
jbaileyzul: Aren't you just Mr. Information today? =)08:19
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BenCl08:40
zuljbailey: heh..i try :)08:49
mxpxpodzul: know who takes care of the wlan-ng patch?09:24
zuluh...i made the patch in the first place so i guess i do09:36
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mxpxpodzul: I just filed bug #14103 relating the the wlan-ng patch09:52
zulok09:56
mxpxpodzul: I hope it's not too late to get an update of that patch into breezy09:57
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{Seb}hi people09:58
{Seb}i've got a kernel module problem with ndiswrapper09:58
{Seb}anyone around?09:58
{Seb}i've installed ndiswrapper-utils09:58
{Seb}and added 'ndiswrapper' to my /etc/modules09:59
{Seb}but when i boot up, i don't think the module is loading09:59
{Seb}because it will only continue IF i remove the adaptor?10:00
{Seb}any ideas?10:00
jbaileymjg59: I got this at support@canonical.com: "I found your support page that talks about a special version of Ubuntu10:02
jbaileyfor the HP NC-6220 laptops."  Any idea what he's talking about? =)10:02
Mithrandirjbailey: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/custom/hplaptops10:06
jbaileyMithrandir: Ah, thanks. =)  Didn't know about this.10:07
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Mithrandirgoogle://site:*.ubuntulinux.org NC-622010:08
{Seb}can anyone help me with this one?10:08
jbailey*blink* Right.10:08
jbaileyI hate being sick.  I can't think straight.10:08
jbaileyMithrandir: Thanks.10:08
Mithrandir(ok, I had to check canonical.com and ubuntu.com first, but still)10:09
{Seb}who do i need to speak to about this?10:16
jbailey{Seb}: BenC probably.  zul might be able to help you.  It's mostly a matter of waiting for someone who's around (I don't know what BenC's hours are).  If noone has answered by the time you want to go, I'd suggest filing something in bugzilla.10:21
{Seb}ok10:21
zulim heading home...c ya later10:38

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