On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:03:02 +0000, Periodic FAQ Pointer wrote:

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> Last-change: 2006/07/11

No new FAQ's in over a year...?

I would have thought that Slack 12.0/HAL/dbus would have accounted for a
few...

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Dan C wrote:

> I would have thought that Slack 12.0/HAL/dbus would have accounted for
> a few...

Two points, a) someone has to decide which are the Frequently Asked
questions on 12.0/HAL/dbus, in the example that you give, which means
that someone has to analyze the 12.0/HAL/dbus related questions, and
answers in this newsgroup from the point that 12.0 became available;
and, b), they then have to sort out the answers that work for most
people, on most hardware.

If I remember correctly it took several months for the last set of
FAQ's to be updated when Sylvian took over the job from Keith, and that
process engendered a certain level of criticism.

Lots of people find the material in the FAQ handy from time to time, but
its finding someone willing to compile it thats the problem.
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On 2007-07-24, Two Ravens wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly it took several months for the last set of
> FAQ's to be updated when Sylvian took over the job from Keith, and that
> process engendered a certain level of criticism.

Well, there was a lot of cruft to eliminate in that round. For HAL, I'm
guessing there could be one or two entries. But, as you say, someone
needs to write them.

--keith

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Keith Keller wrote:

> Well, there was a lot of cruft to eliminate in that round. *For HAL,
> I'm guessing there could be one or two entries. *But, as you say,
> someone needs to write them.

I for one will be grateful when someone does!
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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:18:18 +0100, Two Ravens wrote:

>> Well, there was a lot of cruft to eliminate in that round. *For HAL,
>> I'm guessing there could be one or two entries. *But, as you say,
>> someone needs to write them.

> I for one will be grateful when someone does!

There was a thread in here, OP was Robby Workman, which should serve as a
good starting point for at least one entry on HAL tweaks:

Message ID:

Perhaps the maintainer (Sylvain?) could pretty much cut-n-paste that into
the FAQ...


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Dan C wrote:

> There was a thread in here, OP was Robby Workman, which should serve
> as a good starting point for at least one entry on HAL tweaks:

Thank you, yes, I did read it, but I'll have to admit to not
understanding what
HAL is or does yet. Why is the /dev/cdrom entry in fstab commented
out? Will the previous edits of fstab adding /dev/dvd to /mnt work?
These are rhetorical questions, I'll find out. Its just that having
been used to things the way they were with 2.2.X and 2.4.X kernels,
using hdc=ide-scsi, and fstab being the way it was since 7,
I've always used something similar to the "how to mount devices
as a regular user" article in "Userlocal", now we get a new kernel
and HAL. I'm obviously too old and set in my ways, but I'll
catch up eventually.

At the moment as I get a 'security' message having uncommented the CD
entry in fstab and still being unable to get my computer to read the
CD's I made while awaiting the delivery of my Subscription DVD to
Europe, I can't install the KDE library 'kdeedulibs' which for some
reason the installation process didn't like, but as I said I'll get
there if I re-read enough.
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Two Ravens
"...hit the squirrel..."

Two Ravens wrote:

> ...but as I said I'll get there if I re-read enough.

I think I've got most of it now thanks to Robby Workman, I managed to
get set up with the CD commented out. Got it to read the CD as a user,
and even got the DVD to run, assembled a jigdo from a cover disk DVD
and got the CD burner to burn a CD without resort to hdc=ide-scsi.

One strange point having got the CD reader to read the missing library
that for some reason it would not install, I then used pkgtool to
install it on root, thinking it would install system wide, but I had to
su on each user and then install it individually again for each one.
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Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:03:02 +0000, Periodic FAQ Pointer wrote:
>
> > Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.008)
> > Archive-name: aolsfaq
> > Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer@therockgarden.ca
> >
> >
> > Last-change: 2006/07/11
>
> No new FAQ's in over a year...?
>
> I would have thought that Slack 12.0/HAL/dbus would have accounted
> for a few...

Nah. The slackware community is just too lazy these days.

>

Dan C wrote:

> There was a thread in here, OP was Robby Workman, which should serve
> as a good starting point for at least one entry on HAL tweaks:
>
> Message ID:
>
> Perhaps the maintainer (Sylvain?) could pretty much cut-n-paste that into
> the FAQ...

I apologize for my aparent bsilence on this matter; I've been on
vacation. I'll have a look at that in the near future, and add what
seems right.

Keith's followup to your original question is correct: what *are* the
frequently asked questions, and more importantly, what are the answers
to them, phrased in such a way as to make them applicable to the general
case?

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Dan C wrote:

> There was a thread in here, OP was Robby Workman, which should serve
> as a good starting point for at least one entry on HAL tweaks:
>
> Message ID:
>
> Perhaps the maintainer (Sylvain?) could pretty much cut-n-paste that into
> the FAQ...

I apologize for my aparent bsilence on this matter; I've been on
vacation. I'll have a look at that in the near future, and add what
seems right.

Two Raven's followup to your original question is correct: what *are* the
frequently asked questions, and more importantly, what are the answers
to them, phrased in such a way as to make them applicable to the general
case?

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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