j debert wrote:
Can't say I have experienced the same - 12.1 was a poor release due to systemd, but otherwise I have not noticed any lack of support for older hardware. (except the GUI needing more resources, but that's to be expected).
Pegasus driver is still broken. It's been broken since 10.3. If you're lucky it'll just cause an oops, not a crash. Still requires a reboot as it silently breaks USB when it fails. Only a small subset of Prism2/2.5/3 functions are now supported and it seems a bit fragile. It seems Orinoco, Proxim and Ricochet are also no longer fully supported. Some PCMCIA cards are no longer detected such as SunDisk/SanDisk PCMCIA Flash cards and Flash memory on otherwise supported PCMCIA cards. Haven't checked lately but noticed that Palm USB support disappeared after being reintroduced. Silicon Motion support for X was seriously crippled when it was allegedly improved in 2008, disabling hardware acceleration and 3d, and it hard-codes allocation of too much screen memory, and those were never fixed. Older ACPI support has been broken or at least incomplete since 11.0 and that was never fixed. Can't get APM to work right since 11.0. Some problem with motherboard i2c support since 10.1 broke the cooling fan control, especially for many laptops and someone said that was a known problem fixed in the next release but it wasn't. wpa-supplicant oopses and probably doesn't work with CPU's without crypto functions. Just to mention a couple off the top of my head.
None of that has caused any issues for me, but then I deal mostly with servers. Laptops don't get very old around here (except Thinkpads). If it's all about hardware / kernel support, I guess there are open bugs on it? I recently reported a kernel bug in the thunderland network module - it was fixed very quickly, despite Tlan really being pretty ancient. /Per -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org