[Bug 248635] Re: acer_wmi is not used by default (on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G)

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno lun, 23/02/2009 alle 12.33 +0000, Martin Pitt ha scritto:
> Pietro sent me mail, but for the purpose of record keeping it's better
> > - with no particular conflicts with anything
> 
> Is that true? The description of the bug says you need to rmmod b43.
> Maybe that was true for intrepid, but not for the Jaunty kernel any
> more?

exactly


> > - that is simply a workaround, waiting for a proper fix (from the
> > kernel)
> 
> If those three reasons are true, a jockey handler sounds like the
> wrong solution to me (as much as I like jockey :-) ). But if a driver
> which we ship by default does not get activated by default, then
> that's simply a bug, and not something the user should need to worry
> about. In other words, jockey should allow you to do a qualified
> decision, but shouldn't be a place with lots of "unbreak my computer"
> buttons.

OK, I get it (and I partially imagined it).

thanks for further hints

Besides (referring to the bug), my Fujitsu Siemens just broke
quasi-definitely, so I will hardly be able to code/test on it again.

Pietro

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acer_wmi is not used by default (on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G)
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