Re: Backport Questions from a new debian user
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:51:15PM -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote:
> I've recently switched to debian wheezy, and this is my first foray into
> the debian world. I have a few questions about wheezy's backports.
>
> Debian wheezy's kernel has many, many issues with GUI freezing on intel SNB
> and IVB graphics (just look at the threads popping up almost daily about it
> in the debian forums), and this is most likely due to wheezy's old 3.2
> kernel.
I'm sorry to hear that. Actually, the video drivers in wheezy are
from Linux 3.4. There will be further fixes to them in stable
updates.
> After manually updating to kernel 3.8 the freezes are gone for me.
> I also need kernel 3.8 for my brightness keys and card reader to work.
>
> I'd like to switch to the official backported 3.8 kernel once it ends up in
> backports. How long does it typically take for a new kernel to reach
> backports after a new debian stable release?
Only packages in testing are eligible for backports. No new kernel
has yet migrated to testing, due to some build failures. This will
probably be fixed in a few weeks.
You should be able to install the new kernel package and
initramfs-tools from unstable without upgrading any other packages.
> Will firmware also be
> backported (I noticed that after compiling and installing kernel 3.8,
> firmware-realtek stopped working and gave lots of errors about missing
> firmware when updating the initramfs, this was resolved after downloading
> firmware-realtek 0.38 from sid)
I expect I will do that soon.
Ben.
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