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

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2015-06-23, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/06/2015, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop
>>> environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either
>>> the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to
>>> drive the external monitor.
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>> Squeeze and Wheezy are old, and neither contained bumblebee.
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> 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.

A stable release is supported with respect to security updates and fixes
for major bugs only, from its release date until one year after the
release of its successor. That is basic Debian release policy, and I
fail to see why it has taken countless contributions to this and other
threads for you to grasp it.

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Liam