Re: Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:15:56PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> You don't need a backport of the kernel packages. They are stand alone
> pieces of software that nothing depends upon and depend on nothing
> themselves (in the packaging sense; I know the system needs a kernel to
> run). You can just down load the kernel packages of your choice.
True the kernel is usually rather simple to backport, although sometimes
you have had to get a newer initramfs package or similar to support the
new kernel, which I count as part of backporting a kernel.
> I had a problem with the kernel in lenny not supporting the Nikon D40
> DSLR I've just got. Loads of stuff on the Ubuntu forums because they
> shipped with a version of the kernel that was "broken". Any way I just
> installed the sid kernel set and everything just worked.
>
> Here are the packages I got from sid:
> linux-headers-2.6.23-1-amd64 2.6.23-2
> linux-headers-2.6.23-1-common 2.6.23-2
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-amd64 2.6.23-2
> linux-kbuild-2.6.23 2.6.23-1
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Len Sorensen
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