Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

[Rick Knight]

Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>
>   
>>>   $ wget
>>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb
>>>
>>>   $ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I tried this tonight. I ran into dependency problems.
>> linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb depends on
>> module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-4ubuntu5_i386.deb which depends on
>> libc6_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb. I don't mind replacing module_init_tools,
>> but libc6 scares me a little. Is it safe to replace the Gutsy libc6 with
>> the Hardy libc6? It will probably lead to more dependency problems.
>>
>>     
>
> Try:
>
> $ sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=module-init-tools -i linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb
>
>
> Wenzhuo
>   
Wenzhuo,

This worked. I was able to install the Hardy kernel and then boot using 
it. My drives show up as SCSI devices (/dev/sdxn) instead of IDE devices 
and the pata_via module is being loaded. The IDE modules are not 
loading. Whatever was broken in Gutsy seems fixed in Hardy. There a 
couple of problems, that will go away when I upgrade to Hardy. I get a 
Cups backend error and the VBox modules won't load. Other than that, 
things look good.

Thanks,
Rick