Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:06, Paul Gear wrote: >> Comments/Problems: >> The VIA VT8251 appears not to be *fully* supported until 2.6.20, and is >> mostly working on 2.6.18. [1] Kernels are one thing for which i think >> Debian needs to make an exception to the rule of "no updates unless >> something's broken". If you can't install Debian on the latest >> hardware - it is broken. There are lots of PGA775 motherboards out >> there that require 2.6.20 to work fully - it needs to be supported in >> etch somehow. > > I'm sorry, but that is not a decision for the installer team, but for the > kernel team, but the kernel for Etch is frozen now. > Unfortunately there will always be hardware that is not supported by a > release kernel. We'll make installation images for lenny based on newer > kernels available as soon as possible after etch has been released. > > Closing this report as this is not an issue we can fix.
Hi debian-kernel team, Frans suggested this is the best place to bring this up to find out if there is anything more that can be done. I really feel this is a problem area, because i now have 2 machines that i can't properly use Debian on. Next time a motherboard dies in my house, i'll have 3. On the machine i reported above, i gave up and installed Ubuntu dapper (yes, *dapper* - it has full support for the hardware), and i have another machine running etch that i simply can't use the CD drive on due to too old a kernel. Are there any practical workarounds for us non-Debian-developer, non-kernel-compiling types? I'd really like to use etch on all my machines (at least once it is released as stable), but lack of support for modern hardware gets in the way. I really don't think compiling a custom kernel is a good option - it takes less time to install Ubuntu. Thanks for listening, Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Did you know? Using Microsoft Internet Explorer can make your computer less secure. Find out more at <http://browsehappy.com>.
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