a couple early observations on f11beta install

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 04/01/2009 05:52 PM, Riku Seppälä wrote:

> I too like to write some of my observations of F11 beta on my HP
> dv9237eu laptop. The webcam doesn't work, still needs that firmware from
> http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/overview/ (I just thought if I nag
> enough about this it will magically start to work :) ) And of course the
> usual troubles, kernel oops, sound clicks at boot and login when it
> starts to play the welcome sound, have to manually enable network...

There is no way we will be able to include firmware sniffed out of
proprietary Windows drivers... unless the copyright holder for those
drivers gives permission, and I don't see Ricoh doing that.

~spot