Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 21:06:20 schrieb Sam Morris: > At some time in the future it will hopefully be possible for udev(?) to > get the 'missing firmware' event from the kernel; Since the firmware helper is part of udev, it already knows that the firmware is missing. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-27 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:35 +0300, Joona Kiiski wrote: >>It should be documented: yes. >>But what's your problem? It is the same situation as for so much other >>hardware like WLAN, etc. And the sound card is not even essential for >>booting or downloading additional software. >>And no need to wr

Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-27 Thread Joona Kiiski
>It should be documented: yes. >But what's your problem? It is the same situation as for so much other >hardware like WLAN, etc. And the sound card is not even essential for booting >or downloading additional software. >And no need to write a driver: it is still there. I think you didn't get the m

Re: Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 13:23:35 schrieb Joona Kiiski: > I decided to give lenny a try and upgraded my old laptop. > Everything went fine, except for some strange reason, sound didn't work. > > After about three hours of trial and error plus some googling, I found > bug #464191 which is caused

Etch->Lenny upgrade mutes some/many old laptops.

2008-08-26 Thread Joona Kiiski
Hi, I decided to give lenny a try and upgraded my old laptop. Everything went fine, except for some strange reason, sound didn't work. After about three hours of trial and error plus some googling, I found bug #464191 which is caused by removal of some binary-only driver from kernel. While in pr