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  1. Bug #471872
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 471872

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spinlock (andrew-d-dixon) wrote :

I actually don't need to custom compile the kernel any more. I'm running the stock Ubuntu kernel on the 10.4 Net Book Remix:

> spinlock@sendack:~/highr$ uname -a
> Linux sendack 2.6.32-32-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 21:54:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

And, I totally agree that "unsupported series" is pretty weak. My guess is that they're talking about the Inspiron 600m rather than the version of Ubuntu. But, this is still a missed opportunity to understand what changes hang certain chipsets and which are OK. We've done a ton of work just on this bug thread identifying exactly which modules cause the problems and then identifying when the issue was fixed. You'd think someone would want to understand that a bit better, maybe put a comment in the kernel source, and go on their merry way knowing they've prevented this from popping up again. As it stands now, I feel like any kernel upgrade might break my machine.