> Oh :(
>
> Well, Marc, the bad news are it is not going to work out-of-the-box. My
> question - would you help in testing it? You will have to update to
> current cooker (or at least beta4 - I have heard it is out) because
> testing on 8.1 is pretty useless, devfs support there is largely broken
> and I do not have time to test old versions anyway. You also have to
> apply patch to kernel and compile it. I'll tell you what to do so here
> is no problem.
>
> O.K. several points:
>
> - currently pcd has very poor devfs support. It registers only vanilla
> /dev/cdroms/ entry; it does not register anything else. It means with
> devfs no /dev/pcd* are created that violates devices.txt :-)
>
> - everything else in paride (pg = generic, pd = disk, pt = tape) seems
> to register corresponding /dev/{pg,pd,pt}/* entries and devfsd knows how
> to create compatibility links for them
>
> So to (fully) support paride with devfs we need
>
> - patch kernel pcd.c to create correct device entries; in which case
> "correct" means /dev/pcd/pcd* IMHO and /dev/cdroms/ links
>
> - patch devfsd to create compatibility links
>
> - think about modules.devfs configuration. We have to deal with both
> interface+device here much like for SCSI.
>
> Pixel is it possible to autodetect paride devices (assuming, they are
> connected on install) like for SCSI ppa/imm?
>
> My concern is, loading more than one parport driver may not be
> transparent. I.e. adding paride to standard modules.devfs may
> accidentally trigger loading of paride that may break other modules (lp
> or ppa/imm). Anybody knows about it?
>
> -andrej
Hi Andrej,
I'm OK to test it. I currently run 8.1 on my laptop but I could also use
other hosts to do the tests. I work as a sysadmin in a french school and I
have plenty of PC to play with! I have one host running beta2 and another
running beta3 (it's not smart but after I got it work with the SiS620 based
pc I wanted to try my scsi HP laserjet 4c with scannerdrake as well as a
cdwriter).
The backpack is a portable cdwriter then I could try that easily in a couple
of different pcs.
But you may have to direct me with all that because I'm not familiar with
devfs. But I'm ready to work!
1. to upgrade to cooker is it enough to run the Mandrake software manager and
install the cooker's rpm? Other simpler way?
2. send me the kernel patchs and the command line instructions
I'm ready.
Regards,
marc
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