Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> It is unfortunate that the direction that this thread has now taken,
> appears to indicate that Debian versions, apart from ths "stable"
> version, are not supported.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote:
> And so is the particular computer, now, "old", so they should be able
> to get it fully functional.
>
> It is not as if the computer is now, "cutting edge", "new technology"
> - it is at least two years old.
Yes, and coincidentally, wheezy is also two years old. Squeeze is even
older.
Optimus video chipsets are notoriously tricky to get working correctly,
and it's only in the past few years that the bumblebee project has
gotten them doing the right thing. Wheezy has the packages backported,
but you might as well just upgrade to jessie at this point.
But go ahead and do whatever you want; it's your computer after all.
--
Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
-- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
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