Installing a compiler by default
Lee Revell
rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Jun 8 19:46:12 BST 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:39 +0200, Robin Sonefors wrote:
> Apparently, the drivers weren't available in any good shape when
> Breezy was released, and thus Breezy doesn't include any. But now they
> are very good: I know one guy to whom a "broken" USB dongle was given
> - when testing on three different windows boxes with the vendors
> drivers, it didn't work (and the tester owns a computer store, so he
> should be able to install drivers), but on linux, after compiling the
> drivers, it works great.
>
> I feel quite certain that during the six months which edgy will be the
> latest and greatest, support for devices that didn't exist before the
> release will be developed, just like in this case.
I guess it's not feasible for Ubuntu to add new drivers to the kernel
package after the release?
Lee
More information about the sounder
mailing list