Ubuntu Failure Story

Yeah, I sort of get the feeling from that article that there is some
sort of subtle hardware failure going on there. Perhaps an IRQ conflict
between a PCI device and his legacy non-pnp ISA device... 

newer mainboards hate that :)

if stuff starts to magically segfault, I don't think there is much you
can prepare for in a distro :(

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:13 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:08:16AM -0500, Harold wrote:
> > Non-plugandplay boards as well as ISA boards in many older machines are 
> > a challenge.  Though most issues can be overcome, it does take more than 
> > typical know-how to find setup information and the files to put them in, 
> > as it often has to be done with a text editor to start-up files. 
> > 
> > Sometimes we forget the bad old days with everything non-standard from 
> > sound boards to modems and nic cards.
> 
> While this is true, systems from the era in question quite often have PCI
> buses and PNP cards.  Regardless, there exists no piece of hardware for
> which a missing driver causes Synaptic to completely fail to start, or the
> CD player application to crash, as described in that article.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 
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