Bug#364167: missing sound drivers (were in 2.6.8 but gone in 2.6.17 and above)

2006-12-31 Thread Brian White
this is an obsolote sound module and oss is superseded by alsa. there is an equivalent sound driver for your sound card available. make sure you have the alsa userland installed aka alsa-utils and run alsaconf it will load the apprioriate sound driver. Okay, I got it. It was found and loaded by

Bug#364167: missing sound drivers (were in 2.6.8 but gone in 2.6.17 and above)

2006-12-31 Thread Brian White
I, too, have noticed that since 2.6.8, some OSS drivers are missing. For me specifically, "osssolo1.ko" is missing and my IBM ThinkPad needs it. This module is present in 2.6.8 but that version is too old to support udev and some other things. Please include these modules if possible. Thanks

Bug#388597: upgrade didn't preserve all kernel parameters

2006-09-21 Thread Brian White
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge4 Upon upgrading this package to the latest (the first upgrade since the machine was built), it lost the "pci=conf1" parameter passed to the kernel via grub. Other parameters, like "noapic" were preserved. Here is the grub menu entry:

Bug#378072: newer kernels don't find secondary IDE controller during boot

2006-07-12 Thread Brian White
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686 Version: 2.6.17-2 I cannot get my system to come up with the 2.6.17 kernel. It starts fine, but is unable to find drive hde,hdf,hdg, and hdh. These are all drives connected to a second IDE controller, a Promise "PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2)". The 2.6.15 kernel also

Bug#289679: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 pivot_root failture

2005-01-31 Thread Brian White
> I've tried using "mkinitrd" and adding "md" and "raid1" to the > /etc/mkinitrd/modules.conf file, but no change. I included "ext3" as well (since thats the fs on the root partition) in this list but that didn't make any difference either. Searching the web, I found several references to this pi

Bug#289679: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 pivot_root failture

2005-01-31 Thread Brian White
I too am getting this problem, but with a PC using nothing but IDE drives. I suspect that the trouble stems from the fact I'm trying to set up a RAID1 mirror as my root disk. I've tried using "mkinitrd" and adding "md" and "raid1" to the /etc/mkinitrd/modules.conf file, but no change. The 2.4 ker