Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 17:40:46 -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > And of course, it is much more up-to-date, with many enhancements, > additions, and bugfixes. At this point, in my opinion, there is no reason > to use Debian stable except for absolutely mission critical applications. > For exerything els

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-20 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an > > unreliable ppp dialout come to mind. > > Hi Kerstin. > > I managed to solve the gpm/X11 problem by discovering that the gpm > install defaults the repeat mode to ms3button

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-20 Thread sharkey
> (3) There was a problem with the mouse setup. I selected a PS/2 mouse > during the installation. However, when the X display manager (WDM in my > case) was started, the mouse wasn't working. I checked, and it seemed > that /dev/mouse was symlinked to sth like "/dev/gpmdata|..". I removed > that s

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-19 Thread G. Del Merritt
At 05:40 PM 6/17/00 -0700, Joey Hess wrote: . Describe how you upgraded or installed. If everything went perfectly, say so; If there were some problems, do your best to describe them, and any relevant information about your system. I started with slink on CD (The O'Reilly CD) and have been in t

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an > unreliable ppp dialout come to mind. Hi Kerstin. I managed to solve the gpm/X11 problem by discovering that the gpm install defaults the repeat mode to ms3

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Should all problems which arise now be reported to Debian-testing > instead of to the bug list? > > At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an > unreliable ppp dialout come to mind. No, if you have a definite bug report, file a bug. Debian-testi

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-19 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, question: Should all problems which arise now be reported to Debian-testing instead of to the bug list? At the moment the gpm/X11 problem with PS/2 /dev/psaux mice and an unreliable ppp dialout come to mind. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-18 Thread Alexander Perry
Joey Hess wrote: > So I'm writing to encourage people to upgrade to frozen, and if you can, > do new installs with frozen. Every report we receive of another clean > upgrade/install makes us that much more likely to release soon. So if > you upgrade or install frozen, post a report to the mailing l

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-18 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
i've been using potato since late january and have been doing apt-get dist-upgrade at least once a month. potato has been very very good to me. if not for power outages and the 'init 6' i'm prone to do, i don't need to reboot my system. On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 10:18:16AM +0200, Dietmar wrote: >

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Dietmar wrote: > Yes, but where should we report our experiences. > 2 weeks ago I installed potato on my box from scratch: I the boot images and > the base > system through ftp and continued with apt-get. As far as I remember there > were only > one severe problem. The loopback-device was not con

Re: please help test debian frozen

2000-06-18 Thread Dietmar
Joey Hess wrote: > [ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a > Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ] > > Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2) > release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the > distribut