8.10 and the GeForce 6100 NVIDIA

[Bart Silverstrim]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:04 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    We, I hope we never get it :-)
> 
> Sure because the new kernel supporting a bunch more wireless cards, such
> as Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, and a new ath9k
> driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipset, is obviously totally
> useless. 
> Equally useless are a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based
> storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O
> scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4,
> multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a
> function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, and improved webcam
> support.

I think the new kernel actually killed my webcam, though :-(

It appears to be a known bug from upstream...something from changes in 
the kernel and the way the driver interacts with it.