Good one buddy! For the lesser mortals in the greek world...the between
the line story is...wait up for Fiesty for the card reader to work. Gotcha!
On a different topic - your subject reminds me of an age ole joke -
What's the difference between a guy jumping down from the 3rd floor and
another jumping down from the 30th?
Ans: The first one
goes...THUD......ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The other
goes....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......THUD
Brad Campbell wrote:
>
> The sound of frustration..
>
> In trying to get my inbuilt SD card reader to work I had to upgrade
> from my trusty 2.6.19 kernel to
> a 2.6.20 kernel.
>
> Now the 2.6.20 kernel has some pretty major sysfs changes that don't
> work well with an older HAL
> version (like anything older than 6 months). There is a compatibility
> option to enable n the kernel,
> but it's not *that* compatible.. Not wanting to really upgrade my
> Ubuntu 6.06 system to Feisty
> alpha, which is what would be required to make it all work, I embarked
> on a selective upgrade process.
>
> I didn't want to install all the -dev packages on my poor little
> laptop, so I installed another 6.06
> in a QEMU virtual machine and did all the compiling there, just
> copying the finished .deb's to the
> host to selectively upgrade the required packages.
>
> I chose all the new packages from the Feisty tree so I'd at least be
> pretty up to date.
> In the end I had to upgrade udev, dbus, hal, gnome-power-manager &
> gnome-volume-manager.
> Along the way to keep the deps up I had to upgrade e2fstools, dpkg,
> dselect, debhelper, hwdb-common,
> hwdb-gnome, python2.4, python-central, python-dbus and install the new
> package gnome-mount.
>
> 3 days later and lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth, I now have an
> Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper system that
> functions perfectly with a 2.6.20 kernel with the compatibility
> options turned off. When I
> insert/remove media, it appears/disappears from the desktop. HAL no
> longer locks up at the first
> forced unmount, gnome-power-manager again detects me
> plugging/unplugging the AC and reports my
> battery state, and all is again well with the world..
>
> And the best part is, I did not need to re-install the whole OS and
> re-do all the last 8 months
> customisation... <whew>
>
> Oh, and my SD reader now reads and writes cards without blowing up the
> kernel. Happy days!
>
> Needed to vent some frustration.. sorry about that..
>
> Brad
> --
> "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
> to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
> for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
>
>
