Monday's 8.04 update

[Pastor JW]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 11:24:41 am Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2008 11:44:50 pm Pastor JW wrote:
> > Has anyone found out what causes 2.6.24-17-generic, which was part of
> > Monday's update, to kill the sound on the Dell 1525 that worked just fine
> > running 2.6.24-16-generic?
>
> There has been a lot of chatter about this on the dell linux desktop list.
> (http://linux.dell.com for info).  I have ignored it because I don't own or
> support a Dell 1525, but you may wish to check it out.  There is also a
> dell repo there with dell specific drivers.

It seems there are no longer any drivers found with 2.6.24-17 but if one boots 
with the previous 2.6.24-16 kernel it does find a driver.  Actually the 
complaint I see is that it does not find any soundcard in the -17 version.  I 
have tried to find hardware config tools but they seem to be totally missing 
in this distro.  I'm feeling a little like I am back in the C=64 days as 
everything has to be done with a CLI.   I did get the /boot/grub/menu.lst 
file edited so it defaults to the -16 version.  I just cut the two top 
listings and pasted them back in under the -16 versions.  Now I have to 
escape to grub menu to bring up -17 if I want to but it defaults once again  
to 2.6.24-16, so normally everything works.  I finally got Kate to come up in 
root mode so was able to edit the menu file.  Only took me two days.  

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