damies
September 13th, 2009, 11:36 AM
Hi All,
First let me say I love Ubuntu, Thanks.
I would like to suggest that an option be added to Update Manager's setting to not download kernel updates. The reason is I have often found that to get support for some piece of hardware you need to compile a driver, as soon as you get a kernel update the driver fails and so does the hardware, this is fine, but a bit annoying for someone like me who can compile a driver. It would be a much bigger pain for someone who is scared of a command line.
As a better long term solution kernel/drivers that weren't so interdependent would be better, ie a driver should be compiled by default for the major kernel version ie 2.6 and only need compiling for the next major version ie. 2.7 or even better from 3.0 to 4.0
So I guess it's really 2 suggestions. Some examples of where I have experienced this is: virtual box guest additions, vmware host network drivers, dvb tv tuner cards.
Dave.
First let me say I love Ubuntu, Thanks.
I would like to suggest that an option be added to Update Manager's setting to not download kernel updates. The reason is I have often found that to get support for some piece of hardware you need to compile a driver, as soon as you get a kernel update the driver fails and so does the hardware, this is fine, but a bit annoying for someone like me who can compile a driver. It would be a much bigger pain for someone who is scared of a command line.
As a better long term solution kernel/drivers that weren't so interdependent would be better, ie a driver should be compiled by default for the major kernel version ie 2.6 and only need compiling for the next major version ie. 2.7 or even better from 3.0 to 4.0
So I guess it's really 2 suggestions. Some examples of where I have experienced this is: virtual box guest additions, vmware host network drivers, dvb tv tuner cards.
Dave.