Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-15 Thread Chris Swenson
Did you ever look into backports? There are newer kernal versions hosted there, as well as many newer packages. http://backports-master.debian.org/ – Chris On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:39:06AM +0100, Michael wrote:

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-15 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 02/14/2013 10:47 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do expect that these problems will be mostly sorted out by the time wheezy gets close to being stable. That is really the basic question - wheezy is close - down to 211 bugs http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ I'm wondering if I can jump

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:02:46AM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote: On 02/14/2013 10:47 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I do expect that these problems will be mostly sorted out by the time wheezy gets close to being stable. That is really the basic question - wheezy is close - down to 211 bugs

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:21:47AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: I check that both systems boot, and that, when booted, they each have mounted the correct partitions, and not each others'. In the case of lilo, I try to make it boot from a floppy, and I install the old and new systems' lilos

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-15 Thread Dick Thomas
About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 gpg key: C791809B On 15 February 2013 16:29, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:21:47AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: I check that both systems boot, and that, when

kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Karl Schmidt
I am still using squeeze - I want to jump the gun and upgrade to wheezy - Most likely problems would have to do with nvidia. Is anyone running wheezy today? (down to 211 release critical bugs !! ) Karl

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael
Is anyone running wheezy today? Yes. I don't see crashes or critical bugs with major applications, but i avoid KDE on 'production' desktops :) but then, 'production ready' is a slightly broad term :) From my i386 laptop, it seems to be ok though (with plasma desktop) if you don't insist on

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:35:28PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote: I am still using squeeze - I want to jump the gun and upgrade to wheezy - Most likely problems would have to do with nvidia. Is anyone running wheezy today? (down to 211 release critical bugs !! ) I'm running wheezy on all my

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:58:45AM +0100, Michael wrote: Is anyone running wheezy today? Yes. I don't see crashes or critical bugs with major applications, but i avoid KDE on 'production' desktops :) but then, 'production ready' is a slightly broad term :) From my i386 laptop, it

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael
Hendrik, I see. Now that's another statement ! Maybe you should move to grub then, within Squeeze, and also try to upgrade only the 'problem' packages first ? if that's all fine, to the rest ? I always do such things within aptitude, maybe in several cycles, since it gives me more choices

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:39:06AM +0100, Michael wrote: Hendrik, I see. Now that's another statement ! Maybe you should move to grub then, within Squeeze, and also try to upgrade only the 'problem' packages first ? if that's all fine, to the rest ? In one of my tries, one of the problem