Re: hda-intel woes

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> I wasn;t trying to be flippant or rude, I was simply pointing this 
> person to a website where they might find answers.  Most users are not 
> programmers and expecting them to debug patches and rebuild a kernel 
> (which won't work in most cases because of forking and massive patches 
> by the DISTRO vendors) .

Since at least one other person mentioned that your reply was harsh, 
leave it that your intentions were good and you weren't intentionally 
impolitic.

> Linux has grown up.    People using laptops with distros will find a lot 
> of answers on these forums.
> How about wireless drivers?  Bcm drivers for example.  Written as NDIS 
> and using ndiswrapper.  Laptop issues are complicated and not general 
> bugs.  LKML isn;t useful to address these issues.  I don't even get 
> responses on AMD issues and I do kernel development all day long.    And 
> I don't use stock kernel.org releases any longer since the distro's have 
> forked so extensively.

Since the issue is/was in the kernel.org release, the question wasn't 
really out of place. As noted ASUS sound hasn't worked forever, and last 
night I was curious about the claims that it was fixed, and lo... I have 
sound in 2.6.16.1. Of course my webcam stopped working, so now that I 
can play back my meeting notes I can't record the meeting :-( That's not 
a trouble report, I have to look at all my config stuff first.


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