I have qc-usb-0.6.6 source code from Sourceforge for my cheap web cam and it works with the 2.6.10 kernel, but I don't think it works with any later 2.6.x kernel. On the ReactOS forums, it has been suggested that Linux lacks a coherent driver model so that every driver has to be ported every time a new kernel comes out. Is this true? It has been suggested that Linux doesn't do well with proprietary drivers from one kernel to the next. I have yet to see ReactOS use anything that Linux can't use without crashing, so maybe the ReactOS community is being a bit premature to be knocking Linux.
On my PII system with the built in ISA sound card, I found that turning the Monorail 3D Audio on causes Slackware to crash during boot. Turn the audio off in the bios, Slackware boots like a charm. Why did Monorail integrate junk into an otherwise decent Pentium II motherboard? Why didn't they integrate a standard sound blaster? Where is the Linux kernel going in the future as far as drivers are concerned? It seems right now like a lot of stuff is broken. I hate to see stuff break between an old release in the current stable kernel series and a newer release in that series. I guess it is a lot to ask that someone fix the driver for an ISA sound card since ISA has been gone a long time. Concerning hardware not working with Linux. Say I know an EE and know about a business that could potentially make PCI cards. Is it possible to make say sound cards and release the design without defeating one's opportunity to profit from the work? Is releasing a hardware schematic with the hardware under a license that says, "you are not permitted to use these schematics to build the hardware without explicit permission from the manufacturer," a reasonable way to do business? If the schematics to popular hardware exist and are free for the owners of said hardware, someone will probably write a Linux driver for it. For that matter, someone may write a driver for Syllable, Haiku, Freedos, etcetera. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
