Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sven Bartscher (2014-08-19): > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 > Ryan Burchett wrote: > > > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. > > debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > > > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however.

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Michal Sojka
On Tue, Aug 19 2014, Ryan Burchett wrote: > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. I > would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > I am having is that you guys do not support my Wireless card. I went to the > wiki and the wireless se

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 Ryan Burchett wrote: > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem > I am having is that you guys do

Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Ryan Burchett
Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however. The problem I am having is that you guys do not support my Wireless card. I went to the wiki and the wireless section and saw my wireless card on the list of supp

Re: "Etch and a half" ( was Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?)

2007-09-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Tim Hull wrote: > Anyway, I'm curious - is this still a legitimate consideration within > Debian? Yes. > If it were to be done, it would have to be December/Januaryish (any That's the plan. > Thus, one wouldn't HAVE to upgrade, but > new users and anyone standing to benefit from a new X/kernel

"Etch and a half" ( was Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?)

2007-09-02 Thread Tim Hull
Hi all, The idea (mentioned in the prior thread) of having an "Etch and a half" release with an updated X/kernel/installer sounds EXACTLY like what I was hinting at. Backports are great, but having a supported, Debian-tested release that Debian can give to users with new/exotic hardware (which ha

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Charles Plessy] > Actually, I would be happy to hear opinions (in private if you think the > question was trivial) on the follwing bug : > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425508 > > Basically, IBM does not distribute anymore the tarballs supported by > Etch's `java-package',

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:45:40AM +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > Only release-critical bugs are fixed in a stable release. You can get > non-critical fixes for some packages by selective use of backports.org. > Actually, I would be happy to hear opinions (in private if you think the questi

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:02:32PM -0400, Tim Hull wrote: > > There are plans for an "etch + 1/2" release which would update the > kernel and X server to support newer hardware. I don't what the status > or timetable for this is.\ > > > This would be great. I'm curious who is worki

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Tim Hull
> There are plans for an "etch + 1/2" release which would update the > kernel and X server to support newer hardware. I don't what the status > or timetable for this is.\ This would be great. I'm curious who is working on it... Why not use backports.org? Well, none of what I need is there. (

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
> making significant updates (like new GNOME, Xorg, etc etc) to *stable* > releases - it would make them *un*stable. > > However, this still leaves the question of bugfixes and hardware > support updates - things that, while not necessarily "new-toolchain" > complexity, a

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Tim Hull wrote: > I've also had to backport libgksu to get a fix for a problem which > causes there to be an extremely high amount of CPU wakeups when gksu > is used (as that kills battery life). The best thing for this is to use backports.org, and in the cases where a package

Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Tim Hull
- it would make them *un*stable. However, this still leaves the question of bugfixes and hardware support updates - things that, while not necessarily "new-toolchain" complexity, are mostly excluded by the current updates policy. As of now, there is no way for stable users to get m

Bug#376347: ITP: ctserver and vpb-driver -- Voicetronix telephony hardware support and ctserver middleware

2006-07-02 Thread Ron
Description : Voicetronix telephony hardware support and ctserver middleware I'm presently preparing packages to support voicetronix hardware, and the (generic) computer telephony libraries developed on top of it. Take control of your phone from software, or your software from a phone. See