> Even Ubuntu doesn't seem very bug free to me. However that said are you
sure that these problems aren't down to something you did?
Chris, I don't say that's Ruben's fault or something. Actually, it's always
the upstream which causes trouble. It's because the switch from Gnome2 to
Gnome3 which required a heavy amount of core rework. That and the immature
state of G3 is the cause of my problems. If I'd wanted to categorize the
system's stability like Debian categorizes its packages, I'll say that
Brigantia is a "pre-alpha/experimental" release, while Toutatis is in "Beta"
now.
> The flickering might be due to an older kernel with the Intel graphics.
You may be right. I read somewhere (on Debian wiki as far as I remember) that
my Ironlake chip requires Linux 3.2 or later. Its interesting that on Dagda
it worked perfectly well.
> The RTL8187 might be a card going bad.
I actually think this could be a system bug. I'll see if it persist after the
upgrade.
> And the other stuff sounds more like something is broken.. due to third
party stuff going on.
Can be, I don't know.
> I'll assume you haven't installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers here
either like I was thinking at first. I don't think you'd do that. My gut is
also saying you know what your talking about-but I'm horrible with names.
I actually did have installed the proprietary driver. My computer uses a
Sony-developed proprietary technology called "Dynamic Hybrid Graphic System"
similar to nVidia Optimus, but this has a special 3-way button to switch
between different usage scenarios: Speed (nVidia), Stamina (Intel) & Auto
(Both, automanaged by the driver). DHGP is not supported by the Linux-kernel
and I managed it to work with using a Linux acpi_osi= boot command and some
custom scripting that actually uses update-alternatives to link to the right
driver (this requires a restart through). I'm currently "switched" to the
"Stamina" mode which uses the Intel/Mesa driver. When I switch to "Speed"
mode which uses the proprietary nVidia driver, I does not have any graphic
issues anymore and the startup is as fast as it was under Gnome2. That's why
I'm confident that it's a Intel/Mesa/Linux bug.
