>It should be documented: yes. >But what's your problem? It is the same situation as for so much other >hardware like WLAN, etc. And the sound card is not even essential for booting >or downloading additional software. >And no need to write a driver: it is still there.
I think you didn't get the main point, I'm not too worried about the sound of my ten years old laptop, I didn't even (yet) care to test the fix. I'm much more worried about what things like this are going to cause for the overall popularity of the debian. In case you didn't know, 99% of western people don't know how to read kernel log or build and install firmware from source. They don't even know what kernel means, and really they shouldn't have to. Think for example my mother. She uses her computer for reading mail, writing text, watching movies, listening to music, playing small java games. I could install debian for her laptop and quickly teach how to do those things. Then after using her computer for one year, she makes upgrade and BANG! She can hear no more music, or she cannot use WLAN anymore! She goes to shop, and buys Windows Vista and gets her neighbour to install it for her. Typical death of linux. If you ******** fanatics cannot start to look things from my mother's point of view, debian will not ever become popular. Now I cannot honestly recommend debian to any of my friends, because instead of making hard things simple, you are making simple things harder. It's just totally frustrating to see that huge effort put in X (it's nowadays unbelievably easy to configure) is meaningless if you intentionally break newbie users' systems in other ways (this time by removing fully functional kernel firmware, next time, who knows...). Sorry for being rude. I'm just very angry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
