On Sep 22, 2008, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Partly because statements like "But they don't, and I can't quite > understand why" makes you sound like you have a phenomenal persecution > complex, which triggers the crazy-person filter. The reason I've focused on whatever effect I might have on the rejection of the message is that this possibility was brought up. It's not something I made up myself and, although I don't reject the possibility that it plays a significant role, I'm looking for other possibilities as well. I suspect this one is just as significant: > a problem that is not universally agreed to be a problem at all. in spite of Fedora's stated goals. > (Please don't take this as an invitation to try to convince me.) :-) > But, now for a real technical objection: > atropine:~% uname -a > Linux atropine 2.6.27-0.314.rc5.git9.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Sun Sep 7 20:57:41 > EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > atropine:~% modinfo -F firmware aic7xxx | wc -l > 0 Erhm... Are you sure aic7xxx was built with any expectation of loading firmware through the standard firmware-loading interface, rather than of having it built right into the kernel image? $ uname -r 2.6.27-libre.0.337.rc6.git5.fc10.x86_64 $ modinfo -F firmware snd-maestro3 ess/maestro3_assp_minisrc.fw ess/maestro3_assp_kernel.fw -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
