Hi, Tom,

-----Original Message-----
>From: tekHedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 26, 2006 12:06 PM
>To: Igor Korot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Card for testing
>
>>> My patch will not apply to 2.6.17. I'm not sure why Gentoo calls 2.6.18 
>>> "not stable".
>
>Technically, it's "masked", not "unstable". :)

Did you notice a parenthesis around that word... ;-)
>
>Out of curiosity, I checked gentoo's bugzilla.
>
>Outstanding bugs seem to be:
> - problems when upgrading from the 2.6.17-r7

big issue for me as I was planning to upgrade it...

> - automatically generated kernel parameters (genkernel)

I am not stupid, and who uses the genkernel anyway? ;-)

> - it breaks the ATI drivers package (ouch)

no ATI cards here..

>
>And so on. So it's not unstable, as such, just new. I may just have to
>try it.

So, for me the only problem is 1. But it's the big one.
However, my card is recognized with the 2.6.17-r7, and if the problem I 
described with the
previous post will be fixed with the Larry's patch, I am willing to try it out 
as well.....

>
>tom
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Thank you.
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