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[lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Reinhard T. <sir...@ta...>]

Hey LCD4Linux fans,

I finally got around to apply Michael's rdtsc fix for the debian
package. Unfortunately, after my notebook upgrade, my usb lcd device
stopped working, I assume it is not the device's fault, but something in
my 2.6.22 kernel. Anyway, I cannot really test the package, so I
uploaded it to http://siretart.tauware.de/upload-queue first.

Could please someone test that package and mail success or error reports
to 43...@bu...? Thanks a lot in advance!

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Marcel <ta...@gm...>]

Seems to work here with a very minimalistic test config, but I'm writing this 
here instead of mailing it to the bugtracker because I would really like to 
have a serdisplib driver compiled in, but the 0.10.1-RC2 source from the wiki 
doesn't compile here. (Most likely the error the fix you mentioned fixed.) 
Does something really speak against building the "default" debian package 
with serdisplib support? Or would it be best if I downloaded the most recent 
source from the repository and build it?

Marcel

Am Donnerstag 10 Januar 2008 11:06:05 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Hey LCD4Linux fans,
>
> I finally got around to apply Michael's rdtsc fix for the debian
> package. Unfortunately, after my notebook upgrade, my usb lcd device
> stopped working, I assume it is not the device's fault, but something in
> my 2.6.22 kernel. Anyway, I cannot really test the package, so I
> uploaded it to http://siretart.tauware.de/upload-queue first.
>
> Could please someone test that package and mail success or error reports
> to 43...@bu...? Thanks a lot in advance!

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Reinhard T. <sir...@ta...>]

Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:

> Seems to work here with a very minimalistic test config, but I'm writing this 
> here instead of mailing it to the bugtracker because I would really like to 
> have a serdisplib driver compiled in, but the 0.10.1-RC2 source from the wiki 
> doesn't compile here. (Most likely the error the fix you mentioned fixed.) 
> Does something really speak against building the "default" debian package 
> with serdisplib support? Or would it be best if I downloaded the most recent 
> source from the repository and build it?

Thanks for testing my packages.

As for serdisplib support, this would require the serdisplib to be
available in debian first. Then I could build lcd4linux with serdisplib
support.

I don't see myself in a position to maintain serdisplib myself, since I
do not have a compatible display. If you would know someone who would be
able and willing to maintain such a package, that would help.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Marcel <ta...@gm...>]

Am Freitag 11 Januar 2008 19:05:44 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:
> > Seems to work here with a very minimalistic test config, but I'm writing
> > this here instead of mailing it to the bugtracker because I would really
> > like to have a serdisplib driver compiled in, but the 0.10.1-RC2 source
> > from the wiki doesn't compile here. (Most likely the error the fix you
> > mentioned fixed.) Does something really speak against building the
> > "default" debian package with serdisplib support? Or would it be best if
> > I downloaded the most recent source from the repository and build it?
>
> Thanks for testing my packages.
>
> As for serdisplib support, this would require the serdisplib to be
> available in debian first. Then I could build lcd4linux with serdisplib
> support.
>
> I don't see myself in a position to maintain serdisplib myself, since I
> do not have a compatible display. If you would know someone who would be
> able and willing to maintain such a package, that would help.

In principle, I have a compatible display and would be willing to maintain the 
package. There are only two problems:
I first have to figure out if it still works (this errorless error message I'm 
getting atm made me doubt it) and then have to find out how to build debian 
packages. But that is something on which I should find thousands of 
tutorials, so maybe I can produce a working package. I'll see tomorrow. :)

Marcel

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Reinhard T. <sir...@ta...>]

Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:

> In principle, I have a compatible display and would be willing to maintain the 
> package. There are only two problems:
> I first have to figure out if it still works (this errorless error message I'm 
> getting atm made me doubt it) and then have to find out how to build debian 
> packages. But that is something on which I should find thousands of 
> tutorials, so maybe I can produce a working package. I'll see
> tomorrow. :)

If you are truely interested in maintaining the seradisp driver, I'd
suggest let's maintain both packages, seradisp and lcd4linux
together. I've made good experiences with using a version control
system for the packaging.

I'm using bzr for managing the lcd4linux packages. You can see my
packaging branch here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/lcd4linux/debian

Perhaps you can base the serdisp package on that?

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Marcel <ta...@gm...>]

Am Montag 14 Januar 2008 10:25:35 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:
> > In principle, I have a compatible display and would be willing to
> > maintain the package. There are only two problems:
> > I first have to figure out if it still works (this errorless error
> > message I'm getting atm made me doubt it) and then have to find out how
> > to build debian packages. But that is something on which I should find
> > thousands of tutorials, so maybe I can produce a working package. I'll
> > see
> > tomorrow. :)
>
> If you are truely interested in maintaining the seradisp driver, I'd
> suggest let's maintain both packages, seradisp and lcd4linux
> together. I've made good experiences with using a version control
> system for the packaging.
>
> I'm using bzr for managing the lcd4linux packages. You can see my
> packaging branch here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/lcd4linux/debian
>
> Perhaps you can base the serdisp package on that?

I already have built a serdisplib package by hand (useful to understand the 
system, but it must be a pain to do this for really big projects...), but 
didn't test it yet. Installing it on my production (sidux) box seems too 
risky to me, but I have set up a minimal debian etch installation in qemu to 
try it. And there's also a mail sent out to Mr. Astleitner, the serdisplib 
dev, (probably you know each other?) to inform him about this package, but he 
didn't answer yet.

I'm willing to maintain the package, using some version control is a good 
idea. :) Going to read some bzr documentation later.

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Marcel <ta...@gm...>]

Oh, maybe there's a misunderstanding... I cannot maintain the serdisplib 
driver of lcd4linux due to a lack of c++ knowledge but want to maintain a 
serdisplib debian package. Just to have this clear. :)

Marcel

Am Montag 14 Januar 2008 10:25:35 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:
> > In principle, I have a compatible display and would be willing to
> > maintain the package. There are only two problems:
> > I first have to figure out if it still works (this errorless error
> > message I'm getting atm made me doubt it) and then have to find out how
> > to build debian packages. But that is something on which I should find
> > thousands of tutorials, so maybe I can produce a working package. I'll
> > see
> > tomorrow. :)
>
> If you are truely interested in maintaining the seradisp driver, I'd
> suggest let's maintain both packages, seradisp and lcd4linux
> together. I've made good experiences with using a version control
> system for the packaging.
>
> I'm using bzr for managing the lcd4linux packages. You can see my
> packaging branch here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~siretart/lcd4linux/debian
>
> Perhaps you can base the serdisp package on that?

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Reinhard T. <sir...@ta...>]

Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:

> Oh, maybe there's a misunderstanding... I cannot maintain the serdisplib 
> driver of lcd4linux due to a lack of c++ knowledge but want to maintain a 
> serdisplib debian package. Just to have this clear. :)

Well, I don't think this is a hard requirement, if we can agree on a
common VCS, so that we can look (and commit) into each others branches.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

Re: [lcd4linux] New Debian Packages need testing

[Marcel <ta...@gm...>]

Am Donnerstag 17 Januar 2008 09:54:05 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Marcel <ta...@gm...> writes:
> > Oh, maybe there's a misunderstanding... I cannot maintain the serdisplib
> > driver of lcd4linux due to a lack of c++ knowledge but want to maintain a
> > serdisplib debian package. Just to have this clear. :)
>
> Well, I don't think this is a hard requirement, if we can agree on a
> common VCS, so that we can look (and commit) into each others branches.

To be honest: I don't really understand yet why I should need a VCS - There's 
no real code to have control over, only the debian control files which imho 
don't really need version control...
Or does bazaar do more than just version control and I did not read about it 
yet? :)