On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:55:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > > > >everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are > > > >indeed valid reasons, but what is yours? > > > > > > I sense Alan expects everyone here has read and remembers every post he > > > has written. He told us his, though indirectly: > > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/09/msg00296.html > > > > > > Synopsis: > > > Wheezy was on old puter, with mature hardware supported by FOSS. > > > Jessie is on new (unspecified model) Dell (with Win10), with unknown > > > hardware with unknown FOSS support. > > > > Contrasting the behaviour of machine A with machine B (worked on my old > > machine, works fine with Windows etc) and indulging in nostalgia is only > > of passing interest when the objective is to get an aspect of machine A > > to function. If is like telling a doctor you ran a marathon every week > > twenty years ago when the present issue is having two broken legs. > > Yes. Someone had referred to upgrading and I mistakenly followed it. My > memory isn't up to yours or his. Mea culpa. I have elsewhere asked whether > the chip was a Skylake. That can cause problems with Jessie (sound was one > of them). Been there. Done that. Got the very bloody tee-shirt. I did,
I don't believe we know the make and model (Dell?) being used; it could be a factor in forming a solution. Who knows? (Rhetorical, we all know who knows). Add it to to the list of hoarded useful information. I recollect your tussle with a Skylake machine. You were your usual informative self and co-operated with the troubleshooting process; wear the tee-shirt with pride. :) We have more tee-shirts to hand out but a quality claimant in this thread looks less and less likely. > elsewhere in the thread, ask why he didn't use something other than Jessie, > which might suit better. I was actually thinking of Stretch or Mint. (I > woudl use Stretch. ;-) ) But any more modern distro might get on better > with what may be very modern (certainly fairly recent) hardware. Jessie isn't that old (2015) but things do move on, so when there a hardware problem (and we do not know that in this case) stable/testing is a good jumping off point. > (Why didn't I use Stretch, instead of Skylake with Jessie? It wasn't my > computer, and would have involved using either another DE or not-yet-ready > software.) Lucky you, being able to play with machines of others. I only have the opportunity to muck up my own. -- Brian.
