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

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 Ryan Burchett yurofspr...@gmail.com 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

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

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sven Bartscher sven.bartsc...@weltraumschlangen.de (2014-08-19): On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 Ryan Burchett yurofspr...@gmail.com 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

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 (and

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 has

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 question

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', wich

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 many bugfixes or support

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

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. (I

Re: Bugfix/hardware support updates to stable releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
(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, are mostly excluded by the current updates policy. As of now

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 working on

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

2006-07-02 Thread Ron
: 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 the url above