On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:43:31PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:22, Sven Luther wrote: > > It is well possible that a similar detection problem is present in the > > XFree86 package, and the fact that it works fine in ubuntu is probably > > due to them using X.org, where this bug is absent. > > Another possible reason for differences is that Ubuntu Hoary uses a > different kernel (2.6.10 IIRC) than Sarge (2.6.8).
Also hotplug in the installer rather than discover, which could easily make a difference to hardware detection (and shifts more of the burden to the kernel, so kernel versions are more likely to make a difference to what hardware is detected). I've contributed that code from Ubuntu back to d-i so that it can be enabled by building the initrd in a different way, but I can't make the decision for Debian on whether to use discover or hotplug. This makes it quite difficult for me to deal with mails that say "Ubuntu can detect this but Debian can't; why haven't you contributed these improvements?", because in many cases there's little more I can do. (It's true that I didn't manage to get the hotplug stuff into d-i before sarge released, though. Mea culpa.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
