Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-11 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb I tried this tonight. I ran into dependency problems. linux

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-09 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-15-386_2.6.24-15.27_i386.deb I tried this tonight. I ran into dependency problems. linux

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you suggesting I upgrade to the Hardy beta, or just set my repositories to Hardy and update. Won't that be an upgrade? How stable is Hardy. I know the code freeze is this week, but is it safe to upgrade to Hardy

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-07 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: I downloaded the Kubuntu 8.04 Desktop CD ISO, burned the ISO and booted. It DOES install my hard drives as /dev/hd devices, not /dev/sd and I can access them without any problem, so whatever is causing my problem with Gutsy, has been fixed in Hardy

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-04 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: I've removed/commented everything from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules except via82cxxx ide_generic ide_disk ide_cd And I've run $update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.22-14-generic. I still can't boot the 2.6.22-14-generic kernel but now I can see my

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-04 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: I've removed/commented everything from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules except via82cxxx ide_generic ide_disk ide_cd And I've run $update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.22-14-generic. I still can't boot the 2.6.22-14-generic kernel but now I can see my

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-03 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: boot the 2.6.22.14-generic kernel? I have a 4 year old Soyo motherboard with Via chipset. Can I rebuild the kernel to get this older IDE support? I can still boot into my Feisty kernel. If your chipset is not supported by libata, and you

Re: Please keep the old IDE chipset drivers so that external CD writers can work

2008-04-03 Thread Rick Knight
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote: Rick Knight wrote: I'll file the bug report as you, suggest, tonight or this weekend. But until I hear a respones to the bug report, is there anyway to force the newer kernel to setup drives by path with hdxn instead of sdxn? Also, if I do rebuild the kernel, which

Help with Gutsy Upgrade

2008-04-01 Thread Rick Knight
, but that didn't work this time. While this may not be a common problem with the Feisty / Gutsy upgrade, a Google search shows the several are have the same or similar upgrade errors. Can someone here please give me some suggestions to fix this problem? Thanks, Rick Knight -- Ubuntu-devel