Drivers unavailable for Linux

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun 4 Nov 2007

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Graphic device  <-> 25%138 votes
Printer  <-> 9%51 votes
Sound card  <-> 7%41 votes
Motherboard  <-> 1%10 votes
RAID  <-> 7%40 votes
Networking  <-> 12%68 votes
Camera/Smartphone  <-> 25%137 votes
Other  <-> 9%52 votes
Total 538 votes

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (85.118.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 12:00
this is a great vote!

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (212.175.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 13:05
none?

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (190.169.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 13:42
I have a webcam that doesn't work under Etch.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (217.115.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 14:21
I have two unsupported devices under Etch: D-Link web camera and O2micro card reader.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (70.123.xx.xx) on Sat 10 Nov 2007 at 03:45
The O2 Micro device should be handled by the o2micro driver. If I'm not mistaken, the one module pretty much covers all implementations.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by rollopack (88.81.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 14:17
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I have a webcam that doesn't work under Sid.

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older scanner
Posted by Anonymous (85.216.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 14:29
Ok, the scanner I talk about isn't even supported under Windows XP, but I am really angry that the producer doesn't give specs so one could do it oneself.


cb

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (82.29.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 16:08
everything works :)

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (85.230.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 16:57
All my stuff works. Why would I buy anything that doesn't?

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (190.169.xx.xx) on Mon 5 Nov 2007 at 18:11
I didn't buy mine thinking in Debian. And some work and some others don't.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Sun 11 Nov 2007 at 16:37
Because somebody has to be the first to buy it, and that person has to document that it works.

Why should you have to check that it works?

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux Sound Card
Posted by Anonymous (71.169.xx.xx) on Tue 6 Nov 2007 at 05:15
alsamixer does not control anything on CA0106

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by ajt (204.193.xx.xx) on Tue 6 Nov 2007 at 09:06
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Most stuff works okay, but on an antique Dell Latitude notebook the combined MeoMagic video/audio chipset works fine for video but the sound subsystem doesn't make a beep with either OSS or ALSA.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (81.56.xx.xx) on Tue 6 Nov 2007 at 20:06
I have a video input card that works under linux and freebsd but not under windows (too old). lol.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Utumno (60.248.xx.xx) on Wed 7 Nov 2007 at 08:08
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Everything I need works, including - bluetooth connection to my cellphone - suspend-to-disk, suspend-to-ram ( although after some fight ) - wireless - printer - controlling XMMS with a standard TV remote through IRDA - not to mention standard stuff like wired network or sound Now I am waiting for and upgrade of bluez-utils to version 3.22 in Debian, when I hope I'll be able to make my bluetooth headset work. ( it is supposedly already possible to make it work but with some bloated daemons like plugz and btsco - 3.22 removes the need for them ) I haven't tried using any cameras, though.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by simonw (212.24.xx.xx) on Wed 7 Nov 2007 at 11:55
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Almost everything I have works, but I'm depressed that my Tape drive and RAID driver worked flawlessly, but recent kernels degraded the support, and I had to do stuff manually to make them work again.

Guess this shows Linux needs hardware regression testing, and that really required hardware vendor input. Just writing the drivers for free isn't enough.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Sun 11 Nov 2007 at 16:39
Did you bug report this?

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by simonw (84.45.xx.xx) on Sun 11 Nov 2007 at 17:48
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In one case someone beat me to it.

I'm still trying to figure out that I have everything correct for the other.

But the principle is the problem, without hardware regression testing they can't know that they broken a device. In one case they split the PCI IDs supported into two, supported the two sets with a different driver, and forgot to include the PCI ID of the device I had. Although in that case the breakage was predictable.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by sneex (63.139.xx.xx) on Wed 7 Nov 2007 at 21:02
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I have several CalDig (VA-Linux) systems that use Promise FastTrack RAID -- which Debian doesn't seem to like ...

I know -- old systems -- but they still work great :]
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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (194.228.xx.xx) on Thu 8 Nov 2007 at 07:31
I have got a photo scanner from HP which does not work... and the printout quality from my HP printer is not as high as in M$ Win

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (201.250.xx.xx) on Thu 8 Nov 2007 at 17:24
kodak easyshare camera... mmmm still today donnot work on my lenny...

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (81.82.xx.xx) on Fri 9 Nov 2007 at 05:14
Using Creamware DSP soundcards is what keeps me from removing M$ from my farm completely. The DSP are managed using their own OS that runs on top of a Win/Mac OS. The OS is pretty much portable (graphical JAVA?), but there drivers and copy protection seem to be complicated.
There's been talks and invitations of Creamware for *nix developers, but after about 3 years still no news. And yes, I do want to keep these DSP cards, there's nothing that sounds like them and no modular synth that is more fun to play.

Also, I'm having a bit of issues installing drivers for ivtv, lirc and nv from time to time. There used to be ndiswrapper for my Broadcom wifi card, but since recently there's proper *nix drivers for the Broadcom chip at last.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by andreas (62.38.xx.xx) on Sat 10 Nov 2007 at 01:33
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Drivers for many devices are missing...
For example many raid controllers (named as fakeraids) are not supported ....
And a lot gadgets (like camers etc...) also need a lot time until drivers for linux get released.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (206.28.xx.xx) on Sun 11 Nov 2007 at 02:58
Filesystems anyone? Linux really needs a new filesystem. Snapshots are the biggest single feature that I think is needed, compression, encryption, and live self repair would also be nice (today if a large volume needs to be fscked, it can take days!).

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (213.164.xx.xx) on Sun 11 Nov 2007 at 16:47
Sounds like you've been reading about ZFS.

> Snapshots are the biggest single feature that I think is needed

We've had snapshots for years. Look at LVM.

> Compression

Already done, I think SquashFS does it, but it's not useful for disks because disk space is cheaper than cpu time.

> Encryption

Years old. Look at dmcrypt.

> Live self repair

This is something that should be done at the hardware level, but if you mean block replication, then I don't think we have (need?) that.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by Anonymous (217.117.xx.xx) on Tue 13 Nov 2007 at 02:06
686 kernel: processor sensors for amd64-k8 missing
amd64-k8 kernel: nvidia driver missing

I have to choose between the two.

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Re: Drivers unavailable for Linux
Posted by mcortese (206.19.xx.xx) on Tue 13 Nov 2007 at 15:51
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It is incredible to me how many different languages/interfaces are born every day to drive such "old" devices as printers.

Of course I'm not talking about laser printers for which PostScript is the standard. I'm referring to the low-cost inkjet printers that you buy in every supermarket and that, when at home, you suddently discover Linux does not (completely) support. Sometimes you can print only up to a certain resolution, sometimes you cannot access some advanced functions (or even not so advanced after all, like the ink level), and even when everything works, still the speed is lower compared to operating it through Windows drivers.

Not to mention those all-in-one boxes (printer + scanner + fax): you are lucky if two out of three functions work!

It seems a paradox that we find easier to drive a complex AGP or PCI cards than an external device linked via a long-known serial or parallel cable.

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