Comment 68 for bug 22336

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 01:31 +0000, Trae McCombs wrote:

> The only reason I even REMOTELY considered switching to another distro was
> because of this bug. Now I'm stuck. My laptop is broken, and I can't use
> anything else. And Edgy won't be fixed either it seems. This means, it'll
> be a whole nother 6 months I have to wait, and hope this bug is fixed.
>
This mail isn't really very helpful.

Nagging or wailing on a bug doesn't get it fixed.

This bug hasn't not been fixed (urgh, green wiggly lines) because
developers don't believe it's that important.

This bug has not been fixed because the developers have no idea why this
happens, and not enough information to find out. We don't even know
where to begin to ask further questions.

At this point, the most useful thing somebody with this bug can do is
get their laptop in front of a developer. Then the bug can be
demonstrated, and explicitly demonstrated as not occuring with Mandriva
2007.

Also we'd really like to know whether this bug occurs with the pristine
upstream kernel or not.

We can then also try various kernel packages on the laptop, bisecting
until we figure out exactly which line of code causes the behaviour to
occur or go away.

Perhaps somebody could get to UDS-MTV and bring their laptop?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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