Hi all,
I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash
drives over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had
been using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in
February, but when I bought a new video card recently I found that I
had to compile a new kernel module to get 3D working properly. At
that point, I decided that I might as well grab the latest kernel
sources and upgrade the entire kernel (to 2.6.18).
Unfortunately, 'hal' stopped working, and that broke 'gnome-volume-
manager'. I saw that backports had an upgrade for 'udev', and I
installed that hoping for a quick fix. The backports 'udev'
conflicted with 'hal' and 'hotplug', and I found myself facing a big
decision.
Since Etch is nearly ready to be released, I decided that my best
bet was to keep the new kernel and replace everything else! ;-) I
chose to dist-upgrade to Etch.
I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is
working really smooth. Everything seems a lot faster, too. No doubt
some of that is due to the improved video card, but boot time is
faster and everything I do when working without X also seems faster.
I would like to thank the developers who are busting their buns to
get Etch ready for release! Can anyone suggest other Debian mailing
lists I can post my thanks to, so that the greatest possible number of
developers will see it? (I realize that "thanks" is just noise, and
not productive, but everyone wants to hear that their hard work is
appreciated!)
Dave W.
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