On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:34 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/30/07, Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is > > working really smooth. Everything seems a lot faster, too. No doubt > > some of that is due to the improved video card, but boot time is > > faster and everything I do when working without X also seems faster.
I'll second this. I'm running it on my desktop at work (2ghz AMD64, 1GB ram, ordinary IDE disc and an old Radeon 700 with two 19" LCDs - it's simply the most responsive desktop I've ever had. > I've a question on behalf of the Debian Ombudsman Team: > - Is there any current issue you would like to see solved into our > post-etch release (Lenny) ? Notebook package selection and ACPI. I just installed Etch on my extra partition this morning (14 Feb 2007 snapshot), the installer correctly chose to install the mobile/laptop/whatever selection. I would have expected it to see that it's an AMD CPU, install powernowd automatically, and load the appropriate modules (which is included in the Debian kernel) to enable CPU frequency scaling. Installing a BitTorrent server by default is a bit silly. ACPI is still a thorn in my side too. I've seen way too many notebooks on which fans simply don't switch on and off reliably, and suspend works but resume doesn't - surely there must be a generic way to handle these things? Aside from those issues I'm over the moon with Etch (Sarge actually too, it's just getting a bit outdated). My desktop is really fast, it's as stable as I expect a server to be. I'm particularly impressed that on my notebook, and HP nx6125 (POS - don't buy) I can now finally dimm my LCD when I unplug the AC power without leaving X. It has never worked before. Keep up the good work. Hopefully I'll be a competent enough coder some day to help. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]