[Klug-general] xorg woes

[Sharon Kimble]

Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> writes:

> On 18/12/14 14:17, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If Debian 8 wasn't so painfully close to release (hopefully!) I'd drop
>>> xubuntu and be a Debian boy again. I got Ubuntu because I wanted an easy
>>> life, not constant xorg problems! Arrggh.
>> Close to release? Give over, it will be at least a year yet, it only
>> went into freeze on November 5th.
>>
>> And my "xorg.conf" was set on setup in December 2013, and has needed
>> nothing else doing to it since then. But I do keep a backup in my
>> ~/cron/conf folder. So its stable under testing.
>>
>> Sharon.
>
> Oh, I thought it had been in freeze MUCH longer than that.
> FWIW, my issue has now resolved with the 3.16 kernel (which i manually
> installed from the 14.10 repos) so I guess it was an issue with my
> existing kernel (3.13 I think).
>
> Thanks all for your assistance. I guess there are just some things you
> can't stop Shuttleworth from breaking.
> Debian 7 is being downloaded now so I should have my system the way I want
> it by the new year ;-)
>
Debian 8 will ship with kernel-3.16 afaik. Currently I'm on
3.16.0-4.

Sharon.
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