[wellylug] Ubuntu & Debian kernel differences

[Jamie Baddeley]

what were the respective kernel versions?

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:19 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> When I was running Ubuntu on my old Toshiba P2 laptop I found that apm
> didn't work properly causing problems with the cpu fan. I was able to
> get around this by forcing it to use acpi instead by using the
> acpi=force and pci=noacpi boot parameters. I recently switched to pure
> Debian and expected to find the same thing since the distros are so
> closely aligned, but to my surprise apm works perfectly. Another thing
> that works in Debian is my DIVA Mobile V.90 pcmcia card. Gnome-ppp
> automatically detected this on /dev/ttyS1, but I couldn't get it to
> work when running Ubuntu. The good thing about this is I can now
> disable my internal lucent winmodem and I don't have to worry about
> recompiling the ltmodem driver whenever the kernel is updated. The pc
> card modem also has slightly better performance than the internal
> modem, I get download speeds of around 9 kbs/sec which almost sounds
> too good for dialup.
> 
> I wouldn't want to put anyone off Ubuntu, it's a nice distro and good
> to see it heading for  number 1 on distrowatch but for my older
> hardware the straight Debian seems to work a bit better.
> 

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Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz>