Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 17:24:08 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.69: VIA IDE still broken |
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:09:10AM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: > Amazing: the only hardware components in my machine that actually work > as expected with recent Linux 2.5 kernels are the network cards, the RAM > and the keyboard, and I had to replace a tulip card with an eepro100 for > that. Even the CPU appears to run too hot with Linux, causing the > system to boot spontaneously under load, and because ACPI is terminally > broken in Linux and has been every time I tried it, I can't do much > about it. Firewire does not like me (modprobe eth1394 -> oops), IDE > loses interrupts (see above), my USB mouse stops working as soon as I > plug in my USB hard disk (which works fine on my notebook and under > Windows), using my IDE CD-R causes the machine to freeze while cdrecord > does OTP, finalizing or eject. The nvidia graphics card takes major > patching to work at all with X, and all of these components are > well-known brand components from tier 1 suppliers that were chosen for > reliability and market penetration over price. I envy people who can > still evangelize Linux under circumstances like this. I sure as hell > can not.
Have you filed bugs in bugzilla.kernel.org for these issues so that the developers can know about them to fix them?
thanks,
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