Re: hda-intel woes

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > I wasn;t trying to be flippant or rude, I was simply pointing this 
> > person to a website where they might find answers.  Most users are 
> > not programmers and expecting them to debug patches and rebuild a 
> > kernel (which won't work in most cases because of forking and massive 
> > patches by the DISTRO vendors) .
>
>
> Since at least one other person mentioned that your reply was harsh, 
> leave it that your intentions were good and you weren't intentionally 
> impolitic.
>
> > Linux has grown up.    People using laptops with distros will find a 
> > lot of answers on these forums.
> > How about wireless drivers?  Bcm drivers for example.  Written as 
> > NDIS and using ndiswrapper.  Laptop issues are complicated and not 
> > general bugs.  LKML isn;t useful to address these issues.  I don't 
> > even get responses on AMD issues and I do kernel development all day 
> > long.    And I don't use stock kernel.org releases any longer since 
> > the distro's have forked so extensively.
>
>
> Since the issue is/was in the kernel.org release, the question wasn't 
> really out of place. As noted ASUS sound hasn't worked forever, and 
> last night I was curious about the claims that it was fixed, and lo... 
> I have sound in 2.6.16.1. Of course my webcam stopped working, so now 
> that I can play back my meeting notes I can't record the meeting :-( 
> That's not a trouble report, I have to look at all my config stuff first.


Thanks for the kind response.  I will not be so abrupt next time. 

Jeff

>

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