On Monday 07 August 2006 16:56, Bruce Marshall wrote:
========================================= Novell's Official Position
Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules ot be infringing on their copyright. Novell does respect this position, and will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of future products.
February 9, 2006 ========================================= I pulled this from the ALSA project site:
[ ALSA is released under the GPL (GNU General Public license) and the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License). ] <=== me thinks this speaks clearly to the kernel community. :) The ALSA ftp download site is: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver The driver that ships with SuSE 10.0 can be found there... alsa-driver-1.0.9 The driver that fixed my sound issue on the ThinkPad R30 (ALC880) HD Audio from Intel... is: alsa-driver-1.0.11 (although I pulled it from RealTek, the doc says its the same... looks the same... functions the same... ) ... and the latest driver that I think should be shipped with future editions of SuSE is: alsa-driver-1.0.12rc2.tar.bz2 dated 08/04/2006 [but I guess I could be wrong for some reason] Are the latest alsa drivers shipping with 10.1 and I just haven't discovered that yet? I am perplexed over the silence on this issue. I really must have missed something in your politics... I would think that you (SuSE Novell) would want your product(s) running on every piece of hardware... When WinXP runs out-of-box on a new HP Pavilion... and SuSE won't, how does that speak for SuSE, linux in general, or Novell either for that matter? Thanks anyway. :) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><