Anssi Saari [2022-12-23 10:37:55] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>> I use Debian Testing
> Different story then. Breakage is expected in Testing.
I haven't experienced particular breakage/problems around drivers for
AMD/Intel graphics cards, whereas that's been rather frequent
for nVidia. So,
Stefan Monnier writes:
> I use Debian Testing
Different story then. Breakage is expected in Testing.
> so if you mostly reinstall from scratch when an upgrade comes along
> you'd likely be fine.
I've reinstalled Debian only once when it was time to switch to 64-bit
sometime in the decade befo
>>> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
>>> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
>>> seems to work perfectly.
>> IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
>> driver working over time across u
>>> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
>>> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
>>> seems to work perfectly.
>> IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
>> driver working over time across u
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes:
> I'd start from the firmware .iso and an expert text modeinstall and then
> uncheck
> everything other than standard - so no graphics environment AT ALL - before
> rebooting. (You might want to add network manager or similar for nmtui to
> configure WiFi).
Looks lik
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:39:40AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:52:24 +1100
> David wrote:
>
> Hello David,
>
> >Hi, I don't know myself what is correct, but I see these related
> >statements on the Debian wiki [1]:
>
> I know the best wisdom suggests an install of stable,
Stefan Monnier writes:
>> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
>> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
>> seems to work perfectly.
>
> IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
> driver work
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:52:24 +1100
David wrote:
Hello David,
>Hi, I don't know myself what is correct, but I see these related
>statements on the Debian wiki [1]:
Personally, I've never had issues with the testing installer. OTOH,
I've only used it three times in the last twenty years. Hardly
On 21/12/2022 13:27, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
seems to work perfectly.
IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
driv
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 20:16, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote:
> >you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade
>
> That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer
> ISOs for testing.
Hi, I don't know myself what is correct, but
> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
> seems to work perfectly.
IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
driver working over time across upgrades is
On 12/20/22 17:29, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/19/22 20:38, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop
On 12/19/22 20:38, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update.
On 2022-12-19 23:38, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest updat
On 2022-12-20 04:16, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500
Gary Dale wrote:
Hello Gary,
you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade
That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer
ISOs for testing.
Not with this laptop. The Debian/Testing install
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500
Gary Dale wrote:
Hello Gary,
>you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade
That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer
ISOs for testing.
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On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update.
If you want a GNU/Linux distributi
On 2022-12-17 23:10, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
On 17 December 2022 9:00:49 pm UTC, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I s
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update.
If you want a GNU/Linux distribution that "just works", one
possibility is Debia
On 17 December 2022 9:00:49 pm UTC, Gary Dale wrote:
>>On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
>>> On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
> My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I
> select a normal boot - it
On 2022-12-17 14:58, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800
David Christensen wrote:
… the practical answer is install and
find out.
There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out".
https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should
consider contr
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops
after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and
displays an error message about: [ 0.71793
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800
David Christensen wrote:
> … the practical answer is install and
> find out.
There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out".
https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should
consider contributing as well. "apt show hwinfo".
Anot
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after
I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays
an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug).
If I go into recove
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after
I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays
an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug).
If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but t
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I
select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an
error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug).
If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops
after a message about the
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