Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:57:43
Message-Id: 201009112257.12652.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device by Alan McKinnon
1 On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:15:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:24 on Saturday 11 September 2010,
3 > Peter Humphrey did opine thus:
4 > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote:
5 > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon
6 > >
7 > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot
8 > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far.
9 >
10 > That's the beauty of Linux. When Linus decides he's had enough
11 > keeping old stuff hanging around and rips it out, you just put it
12 > right back in your own copies.
13
14 Hmm. Not sure how I'd do that. I'd just assumed that I'd stick with a
15 kernel version that worked. You know: mask anything later than version
16 99.94. And yes, I do remember that version, but in the 1.n.n series.
17
18 --
19 Rgds
20 Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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