Hi, I'm wondering how to get the webcam working with the 2.6.25 kernel now that linux-uvc-source seems to have disappeared. There's a package for etch, would that work?
>From the sound pf it I could try the new kernel and that might get the webcam working already. Thanks, Veronica On 9/10/08, Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I know it would have been more of a contribution to try upgrading to >> current lenny, with a 2.6.26 kernel, but at the moment I can't find the >> energy to fight configurations as much as I have been reading about on >> this list. >> >> So, now, if I were to upgrade my 701, would I be likely to find wifi >> working, toggling off/on, etc? Suspending (to ram) working? The >> warning that was posted a while back was, by me at least, appreciated, >> since I could not have dealt with no wifi access on that machine at this >> time. But, no one has explicitly given an all-clear, although it >> certainly seems that things are settling down. > > There are workarounds for the thermal shutdown problem and for the acpi > failure but not a proper and accepted fix, yet. > See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Bugs/2.6.26 > > So why not keep the old kernel and modules as a fallback and then upgrade? > > In aptitude you can serch for all packets with 2.6.25 in the name, keep them > at the current version (by pressing =) before you upgrade. Make sure that no > such packet is marked as automatically installed with an A, or else it would > be removed. Carefully read what aptitude wants to do before you accept. > > So you can try the new kernel, help the project with feedback, but still can > savely boot into 2.6.25-2 > > just my opinion... > > Robert Epprecht > > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > -- married Peter(2000) with bonus Patrick(01), Chris(03), Anthony(04), Bernard(07) http://www.brandt.id.au breastfeeding counsellor Upper Blue Mountains ABA http://www.hermes.net.au/aba/ _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
