Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors
On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-04-17, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17/04/2015, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2015-04-16, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 17/04/2015, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>>> Have you tried "catalyst" for the AMD setup?? Under AMD Mobility
>>>>> Product Family your 6000 series is listed.
>>>>> http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I assume something bad is in the source code of that web page (it is
>>>> aspx, so, proprietary MS stuff), but, with two web browsers - Arora
>>>> and rekonq, running on Debian 6, I can only see a bit at the op of the
>>>> web page - no scroll bar or any way to get to the important stuff
>>>> lower down on the web page.
>>>>
>>>> Publishing a web page about Linux stuff, in MS only format, is a bit
>>>> weird.
>>>>
>>>> It is kind of like the manuafacturer (AMD) wants to hide its Linux
>>>> stuff, from Linux users.
>>>
>>> It is nothing of the sort. The site Works fine in iceweasel on jessie.
>>> It should work on wheezy, which has the same version of iceweasel, too.
>>>
>>> Any browser you run in squeeze was EOL'ed years ago, from a security
>>> perspective if nothing else.
>>>
>>
>>
>> What it comes down to, has nothing to do with the version number of
>> Debian.
>>
>> What it came down to, is, the web page bien aspx shite, it requires
>> javascript (javashite).
>>
>> I installed a 12.x version of opera (from my Debian 6 desktop system),
>> on this (Debian 7, running on the Acer E5-521-238Q) system, and left
>> javascript enabled, and the web page works.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> So do you normally run browsers on squeeze with javascript /dis/abled? I'm
> surprised that any modern web sites work at all.
>
>
The computers upon which I run Debian 6, have only 16 GB of RAM, and,
expecially with Debian 6 not having adequate memory management (as
previously mentioned, memory swapping does not work effectively), so,
amongst other things (including the malware stuff like popups that
browsers do not stop), I do not have enough resources, to allow
javascript in all of my web browsers.
I generally allow javascript in only one of my web browsers, and that
is only for secure transactions, in what I reagrd as a relatively
secure web browser.
Unfortunately, too many web developers are so incompetent that thatey
can not write decent web sites.
A well written web site, does not need the malware that is javascript.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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