On 05/26/2017 06:40 PM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017, at 06:18 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > >> Now means that 4.9+79 is what is now installed on your system. 4.9+80 >> is available from the testing distribution, so that would mean that you >> have the testing distribution mentioned in your sources.list file in >> /etc/apt. > > I had just figured that out. In my sources.list I have deb entries with > "stretch", not "testing", when Stretch is released as stable, will I > remain in Stretch and not continue getting the Testing packages ?(that > is what I want) > >> This is not the problem, and given the totality of the >> situation, I would not upgrade to the newer kernel. > > Too late. Since it was being proposed I did make the upgrade, I cant say > for sure but no changes appear to have happened, maybe its taking longer > for the initial load of the graphical interface in general (login and > desktop), but cant be sure. > > I appreciate your help and support, I really want Debian to work for me, > I bought an Asus laptop because I thought they had better support in > linux, they ship some of their PCs with linux (actually their EEEpc > originally ONLY shipped with a modification of Debian) > > As another symptom I have now is for example, scrolling down or up on a > simple Libreoffice (docx) document is not smooth, it appears to be a > purely graphical issue, not something beyond that in terms of > processing, but I can be sure. > > I have tried installing Mate, really I dont see a lot of difference at > all with regard to any of my issues, actually I have a problem in Mate, > it will not load the desktop background image and it is stuck in black. > For completeness, the bug that I mentioned in my last post is Bug#862355.
> thanks again, > > -- 73's, WB5VQX -- The Very Quick X-ray