The reason we are so upset is that we want to support Ubuntu and
therefore we are surprised that Fiesty was issued with the development
team knowing there was a difficulty.
If there had been a clear warning e.g. : "Don't upgrade to Fiesty if
you want to use a xsane or similar scanner" then we (your
customers/clients) could have taken an informed decision and probably
waited for the next issue.
Now you have a lot of very miffed people who are complaining and
probably a lot more who have not complained but just ditched Ubuntu as
too much trouble to mess around with a fix that it shouldn't need.
NB I am using Mandriva 2007 as it lets me use my scanner - It is not
perfect but then we all know only MS is - until Gutsy appears of course
regards
Mervyn Mitchell
Probably I am not using the right protocol for this site but then why
should I bother when courtesy of proper information is missing?
silentb wrote:
> Please, CALM DOWN. If this were as easy to fix, it would have been done
> by the kernel team. Btw, it's just not true that only Ubuntu has this
> problem.
>
> The problem has been fixed for the next version of the linux kernel, but
> you have to unterstand that they cannot just send out a new kernel
> version via apt-get without testing it a while. In case you urgently
> need your scanner, you might try compiling your own kernel:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.22-rc3.tar.bz2
>
>
The reason we are so upset is that we want to support Ubuntu and
therefore we are surprised that Fiesty was issued with the development
team knowing there was a difficulty.
If there had been a clear warning e.g. : "Don't upgrade to Fiesty if
you want to use a xsane or similar scanner" then we (your
customers/clients) could have taken an informed decision and probably
waited for the next issue.
Now you have a lot of very miffed people who are complaining and
probably a lot more who have not complained but just ditched Ubuntu as
too much trouble to mess around with a fix that it shouldn't need.
NB I am using Mandriva 2007 as it lets me use my scanner - It is not
perfect but then we all know only MS is - until Gutsy appears of course
regards
Mervyn Mitchell
Probably I am not using the right protocol for this site but then why
should I bother when courtesy of proper information is missing?
silentb wrote: www.kernel. org/pub/ linux/kernel/ v2.6/testing/ linux-2. 6.22-rc3. tar.bz2
> Please, CALM DOWN. If this were as easy to fix, it would have been done
> by the kernel team. Btw, it's just not true that only Ubuntu has this
> problem.
>
> The problem has been fixed for the next version of the linux kernel, but
> you have to unterstand that they cannot just send out a new kernel
> version via apt-get without testing it a while. In case you urgently
> need your scanner, you might try compiling your own kernel:
>
> http://
>
>