frustration with hardware support

[Jeff Buchbinder]

On 5/16/05, Nadeem Bitar <nadeem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me start by saying the Ubuntu is my favorite distribution but the
> hardware support is terrible. First I bought a  sony vaio VGC-RA830G
> but it's impossible to install

I have to disagree. I have installed k/ubuntu on a total of four
machines, and I have had only one device (an Averatec laptop Unichrome
display adapter) which did not properly install drivers. Everything
else worked flawlessly from install to now.

> hoary on it while installing fedora is a breeze. Bug 7213 which
> affects my sony machine been open for 2 month now. I got the
> impression that my hardware is not common enough to be a top priority
> which is understandable.

If there are enough people on the developer list who share the same
problem, I'm sure a patch could be submitted to the package
maintainer, which would solve the problem.
 
> So i bought a monarch ultimate linux box which comes with components
> that work on linux and now I am affected with the following bug
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2710. Again fedora and
> gentoo work on the machine. Now, ubuntu not working on this machine
> isn't understandable.

>From the bug, it seems as though the initial disk image which holds
the drivers required to boot the system does not contain a driver
required to load the root filesystem. This is a pretty trivial patch,
and since it exists in breezy, I don't see any reason why the package
maintainer can't backport it for the hoary packages.

Thanks,
Jeff