Testing hardware compatibility

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:47:01PM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> I have an intel i915 based system that I would like to run ubuntu on.
> Unfortunately, neither hoary, breezy or dapper seems to support the
> hardware in this system, notably the sound card and videocard.
> 
> Attached to this message, you will find the output of dmesg, lspci and
> uname -a. I tested with the currend daily-live cd.
> 
> There is a kernel Oops when loading (i think) the intel-snd-hda module,
> and the system crashes hard and sometimes reboots when X is started.
> 
> Is this the right place to send such info? If not, where should I send it?

The best thing to do is to search the bug tracker to see whether the problem
is already known.  I'm fairly certain there is an existing bug report about
snd-hda-intel hanging, which is fixed in Dapper.

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 - mdz