8.10b - first impression and questions

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Hello, Girard,

most of the problems you describe here are neither kde, nor kubuntu issues.

kernel is kernel, so right place is to bug the kernel people. In fact how can you expect something top work, that is in rc (release candidate) state?
The fact that it has not been released speaks itself .

Install the debian kernel 2.6.26-1-686 - you can download the packages from debian.org.
I did and it works just fine (on desktop,notebook etc) My webcam works, my wireless works and so on.

I downloaded those packages:

linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686_2.6.26-5_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-common_2.6.26-5_i386.deb
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686_2.6.26-5_i386.deb
linux-kbuild-2.6.26_2.6.26-3_i386.deb
linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-5_all.deb
linux-support-2.6.26-1_2.6.26-5_all.deb
linux-tree-2.6.26_2.6.26-5_all.deb

Where did you get the 2.6.27 kernel from - did you compile yourself?

Please describe the problems more precisely and may be provide a debug output!


--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr> wrote:


> > My audio and my webcam are no longer recognised in my
> Medion MD 96640
> > laptop but do work in my desktop - although somewhat
> older) and do not

what kind of audio chip and webcam model do you have inside/outside?

> > work in the new kernel. This is not only the case with
> Ubuntu but also
> > with Linux Mint and Debian 5.0 Lenny.
> > Wireless is impossible, even with the Windows drivers
> (via
> > ndiswrapper).

Did you mean you tried the 2.6.27 kernel on those distros. Well if there is a driver issue or kernel issue, then it wont work in any distro ... that's why it's called kernel - doesn't it?

> > An external usb (Belkin) adapter works now and then.
> > 

YOu mean also with 2.6.27?

> > Upgrading is not always an improvement.
> > 

NO especially without complete backup before ;-)

> > I did submit the bug (is it a bug?) but:no solution up
> till now.
> > Yes, solution: stick with 7.10 wherin everything
> works.
> > 
> > By the way: the same is true for Kubuntu and KDE

what is the same to be true - did not understand the reference?

reagards