Ark Linux 2005.1 released

After 3 years of development and testing, the Ark Linux team have decided to 
release the first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1.

The goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use Linux distribution for 
people converting from That Other Operating System, while keeping it 
technically sane.

Ark Linux 2005.1 is built around the latest desktop technologies, including 
KDE 3.4, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (a preview of 2.0 is also available on the Ark 
Extra Software CD), glibc 2.3.4, X.Org 6.8.2, and kernel 2.6.11.

The base insall CD of Ark Linux contains everything the average desktop user 
will need - other tools, for example compilers and development tools, 
additional games and support for additional languages, are available on the 
extra CD images "Ark Development Suite", "Ark Extra Software", "Ark Server 
Software" and "Ark Extra Languages", and of course in our large online 
package repository, easily accessed through the Kynaptic GUI. Experienced 
users can use the "apt-get" tool to install software from the repository on 
the command line.

Ark Linux 2005.1 can be downloaded from http://www.arklinux.org/ using ftp, 
http, BitTorrent or EDonkey.

USB mouse

Hi,

Thank you for your quick response to my USB mouse problem. I'll try to get 
you the output of lspci and lsmod soonest, but I will take some time before 
I figure out how to setup a mail account without a mouse. In the meantime, 
maybe it helps if I tell you that attempting to "modprobe usbmouse" gives 
me: "FATAL: Module mousedev not fount."

I'll get back to you in a little while, hopefully.

Ladislav

USB Mouse

Attached: lspci.txt, lsmod.txt

Module                  Size  Used by
mga                    55808  1 
drm                    69400  2 mga
intel_agp              23068  1 
agpgart                33352  2 drm,intel_agp
md5                     4224  1 
ipv6                  262912  8 
snd_intel8x0           32192  1 
snd_ac97_codec         75256  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                90632  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              25092  1 snd_pcm
snd                    55428  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9696  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9732  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
psmouse                30216  0 
parport_pc             38756  0 
lp                     11332  0 
parport                36808  2 parport_pc,lp
af_packet              22536  0 
8250                   23556  0 
serial_core            22272  1 8250
ide_cd                 40224  0 
cdrom                  38304  1 ide_cd
video                  14980  0 
thermal                12808  0 
processor              21428  1 thermal
fan                     4612  0 

Re: USB mouse

On Sunday 20 March 2005 03:58 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your quick response to my USB mouse problem. I'll try to get
> you the output of lspci and lsmod soonest, but I will take some time before
> I figure out how to setup a mail account without a mouse. In the meantime,
> maybe it helps if I tell you that attempting to "modprobe usbmouse" gives
> me: "FATAL: Module mousedev not fount."
>
> I'll get back to you in a little while, hopefully.
>
> Ladislav

Hmmm, this makes me think that /etc/modprobe.conf has incorrect values for the 
mouse driver since mousedev is from kernel 2.4 and we're on kernel 2.6.... 
Can you send the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf to the list? Thanks.

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USB Mouse

OK, here is my original modprobe.conf as created by Ark Linux.

alias	char-major-116	snd
alias	char-major-14	soundcore
alias	char-major-2	floppy
alias	char-major-226	intel-agp
alias	char-major-6	lp
alias	eth0	8139too
alias	snd-card-0	snd-intel8x0
alias	sound-service-0-0	snd-mixer-oss
alias	sound-service-0-1	snd-seq-oss
alias	sound-service-0-12	snd-pcm-oss
alias	sound-service-0-3	snd-pcm-oss
alias	sound-service-0-8	snd-seq-oss
alias	sound-slot-0	snd-intel8x0
alias	usb-controller	uhci-hcd
alias	usb-controller	uhci-hcd
remove	snd-card-0	/bin/alsa-startup stop 2>&1 || : ; /sbin/rmmod snd-seq-oss; /sbin/rmmod
snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/rmmod snd-mixer-oss; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-card-0
install	agpgart	/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install agpgart ; /sbin/modprobe char-major-226
install	lp		/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lp; /sbin/modprobe parport_pc
install	snd-card-0	/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 &>/dev/null || : ;
/bin/alsa-startup start 2>&1

maso's lspci -v

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                122212  4
nvidia_agp              5788  1
agpgart                27048  2 nvidia_agp
parport_pc             30660  1
lp                      8748  0
parport                20032  2 parport_pc,lp
binfmt_misc             8840  1
sg                     28960  0
ipt_limit               2176  2
ipt_state               1664  72
ipt_LOG                 6272  2
ipt_REJECT              5504  2
ip_conntrack_irc       70704  0
ip_conntrack_ftp       71344  0
ip_conntrack           39412  3 ipt_state,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter          3072  1
ip_tables              16640  5 
ipt_limit,ipt_state,ipt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter
ipv6                  231296  6
pcmcia                 16900  0
yenta_socket           17920  0
pcmcia_core            45632  2 pcmcia,yenta_socket
8250                   18180  0
serial_core            18048  1 8250
minix                  26884  0
ntfs                  165904  0
nls_iso8859_1           3968  2
nls_cp437               5632  0

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Arklinux.org

The site appears to be offline. If its because of an unusal traffic load, we 
just made a release. Im just checking in though to see whats going on.

Please make sure you carbon copy this message to 
greeneg <at> arklinux.org,bero <at> arklinux.org,zdeems <at> arklinux.org,arklinux-list <at> arklinux.org,deux <at> arklinux.org.

I probably won't be around Im leaving at 7 am cst, so one of these guys will 
have your contact if you need information
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Re: [Support] Arklinux.org

> The site appears to be offline. If its because of an unusal traffic load, we 
> just made a release. Im just checking in though to see whats going on.

Back up now but will probably crumble again from the looks of it.

> Please make sure you carbon copy this message to 
> greeneg <at> arklinux.org,bero <at> arklinux.org,zdeems <at> arklinux.org,arklinux-list <at> arklinux.org,deux <at> arklinux.org.
> 
> I probably won't be around Im leaving at 7 am cst, so one of these guys will 
> have your contact if you need information

Might be time to pony up for another box?  We're more than happy to host
it here ... just hate having to reboot it so often ... 

Scott 

Network Problems

I have a quick question. I had my Ark Linux machine set up and
working. Then we moved to a new house and now I can get the Ark Linux
machine to connect to the Internet. I have tested the connection with
my windows machine. I mainly would just like to reset the network
settings because I think I just got something messed up.

Is there a quick and easy way to reset the network settings, and can
someone suggest a good web site that can help me debug this?

Thanks

Using: Ark Linux 1.0.0 alpha 12 (will upgrade once I get a Internet connection)