8.10b - first impression and questions

[Derek Broughton]

guido dom wrote:

> 8.04 (and beta 8.10) may be improvements for some but not for me.
> 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
> 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).
> An external usb (Belkin) adapter works now and then.
> 
> Upgrading is not always an improvement.

These all sound like _kernel_ issues.  I hope you realize that it's _really_
easy to keep old kernels around while allowing everything else to upgrade. 
I never did use a kernel from Hardy - the gutsy kernel worked, and the
2.6.26-5 kernel that I got from a _very_ early version of Intrepid worked. 
So I kept my gutsy kernel until I found another working kernel, then
upgraded that, meanwhile everything else was upgraded to hardy.
> 
> I did submit the bug (is it a bug?) but:no solution up till now.
> Yes, solution: stick with 7.10 wherin everything works.

For kernel-only problems, it's not much of a solution.

> 2008/10/7 Myriam Schweingruber <schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch>
> 

>> It works
>> like a charm on my old machine (Pentium IV with 1 Gb RAM). (except for
>> Kontact, but that is another story...)
>>
Say it ain't so!  kontact's the only story I want to hear...
-- 
derek