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[Keith Rennie <question78779@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78779 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78779

    Status: Answered => Open

Keith Rennie is still having a problem:
Tom.Thanks,
I'm going to try the voltage thing first. I'll get a separately powered USB
hub just in case my laptop isnt supplying quite enough juice. That seemed to
solve the problem for a number of people. one flash per second seems to be
diagnostic of insufficient USB power supply.
I wont bother to take it back--the cost in my time and effort is more than I
paid for it.  I'll try to make it work , even force a reformat, or wait for
a driver. Share your irritation with hardware manufacturers, but the people
that really need educating are the retail chain stores in the US and the UK
(as with Asus EEE).  The hardware people know perfectly well what the score
is, they're just arrogant.  There are lots of things that will keep driving
the Linux numbers up.
BTW I am an example of a windows statistical fallacy. I'm using a machine
that shipped with Vista. It doesnt matter that I have used it for  full ten
minutes to test out a couple of things. They have counted me as a Windows
user!
I'll let you know if I find a solution.


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Tom <question78779@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Your question #78779 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78779
>
>     Status: Open => Answered
>
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> Hi
>
> Sorry no-one has got back to you sooner.  It might be worth posting the
> same question in a few forums
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost/Questions#help
> http://www.linuxquestions.org
>
> Also try visiting the manufacturers website and see if there are any
> forums worth asking in and perhaps a "Contact Us" part of their website.
>
> Often hardware manufacturers seem to demand that you use Windows (or,
> reluctantly, Mac) in order to use their product.  Luckily linux devs are
> pretty good at reverse engineering a lot of these things so that decent
> drivers can be built but it takes time.  Sometimes hardware manufacturers
> say stupid things like "We haven't time to build all the different drivers
> for all the different versions of linux, it costs too much to produce the 4
> or 5 we need for Windows" not realising that developing just 1 OpenSource
> driver would cover all the different versions of gnu&linux, gnu&hurd, bsd,
> unixes and also all the Macs.  Hardware manufacturers also sometimes say
> they wont support use in linux because it's such a tiny market - which is
> true but unlike with Apple and Windows it's a rapidly growing, even
> exponentially growing, market.  The figures up to 1998 at which point it
> started to get silly to even try to measure it
> Year . Number of users
> 1991    1
> 1993    20,000
> 1995    500,000
> 1997    3,500,000
> 1998    7,500,000
> 1999    12,000,000
> We are now seeing some hardware manufacturers such as Dell, Asus and a
> couple of others starting to ship product lines with linux pre-installed and
> already some people are choosing to avoid certain manufacturers such as
> CreativeLabs because they don't provide linux drivers.  Some analysts say
> that when linux usage reaches 10% of the desktop market, it's currently
> estimated at 2% by many, most hardware manufacturers will be forced into
> supporting linux usage of their equipment in order to stay afloat.  But by
> then buying trends amongst linux users may have become established and
> hardware manufacturers that aren't already supporting linux will find it
> difficult to break into the market!
>
> Anyway i would seriously consider getting your money back on this
> product and clearly stating that the reason for returning it is lack of
> support for linux.  Some people have already done this type of thing and
> the more of us that do the bigger the message we send to hardware
> manufacturers and the sooner we find that all this is a non-issue.
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
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