Archive for August, 2005

external

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

The following is the list of OOo modules marked under the “external” cvs alias which do not currently have matching configure –with-system options, or similiar alternatives to avoid building when building OOo

rhino work required, what do the patches do ?
xalan work required ?, prebuilt jars
psprint_config work started (maxweber), module also contains SGENPRT fallback ppd
twain work required ?, single header
regexp work required, heavily modified, ignore ?
icu erack OOo later
msfontextract patch underway, WITH_FONTOOO only
MathMLDTD patch underway, two data files
hsqldb patch submitted
beanshell patch submitted
np_sdk patch submitted

additionly it would be nice if sablot and expat could be replaced with libxslt/libxml2.

startup times

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Took jakub’s suggestion about improving OOo’s startup time, and knocked together an incantation to make the various bits, seems to knock a second off startup time for me under rawhide, details

zd1211 reset

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Bought some wl-113 sitecom wireless things (zd1211) ages ago, they worked fine until moved house and different broadband service, now lots of…
NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out
wlan0: Tx timed out.

generally with large OOo downloads. Ripping out the dongle and sticking it back in is growing old fast. Kludgey patch to implement a reset seems to work around sufficently.