On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:14:02PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 04/08/10 01:48, Bob Tracy wrote: > >So... What's the current state of unstable on Alpha? I've been told > >the following so far: > > Thinking about that list further we should add: > > 8) Xorg only works on bwx capable Alphas. > > I did take a look at fixing the Xserver for the older Alphas but > discovered that the problem is deep rooted and involves both the Xserver > and libpciaccess. It will be quite a bit of work to fix and as all my > Alphas are bwx capable I abandoned that task.
I remember that discussion from the pre-meltdown days... I think the consensus was something along the lines of "even if we somehow got it working, the performance would be atrocious." I know it's not the same, but how 'bout FreeNX from a remote system as a workaround for those platforms? Unrelated to the above, the upgrade from lenny to sid went far more smoothly than anticipated. I haven't tried X yet, and you may hear the screams when I do :-), but everything else seems to be running just fine. The only upgrade "issue" was package configuration failures for the upgrade from Postgres-8.3 to -8.4, and those may have been intentional in the sense of not being able to cleanly determine whether a DB migration was desired (vs. starting with a clean default DB). Once the decision was made (by purging all the -8.3 packages and removing the associated default database), the -8.4 packages configured cleanly. All the locale-related noise from "mandb" and "perl" during the dist- upgrade was expected from having done other upgrades of this magnitude, but unlike the previous occasions, the problem resolved itself by the end of the dist-upgrade process. Nicely done, Debian... --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
