Re: Sound on Jessie
On Sun 18 Sep 2016 at 12:55:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote:
> > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100):
> > > >Alan McConnell wrote:
> > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!!
> > > >
> > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if
> > > >everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are
> > > >indeed valid reasons, but what is yours?
> > >
> > > I sense Alan expects everyone here has read and remembers every post he
> > > has written. He told us his, though indirectly:
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/09/msg00296.html
> > >
> > > Synopsis:
> > > Wheezy was on old puter, with mature hardware supported by FOSS.
> > > Jessie is on new (unspecified model) Dell (with Win10), with unknown
> > > hardware with unknown FOSS support.
> >
> > Contrasting the behaviour of machine A with machine B (worked on my old
> > machine, works fine with Windows etc) and indulging in nostalgia is only
> > of passing interest when the objective is to get an aspect of machine A
> > to function. If is like telling a doctor you ran a marathon every week
> > twenty years ago when the present issue is having two broken legs.
>
> Yes. Someone had referred to upgrading and I mistakenly followed it. My
> memory isn't up to yours or his. Mea culpa. I have elsewhere asked whether
> the chip was a Skylake. That can cause problems with Jessie (sound was one
> of them). Been there. Done that. Got the very bloody tee-shirt. I did,
I don't believe we know the make and model (Dell?) being used; it could
be a factor in forming a solution. Who knows? (Rhetorical, we all know
who knows). Add it to to the list of hoarded useful information.
I recollect your tussle with a Skylake machine. You were your usual
informative self and co-operated with the troubleshooting process; wear
the tee-shirt with pride. :) We have more tee-shirts to hand out but
a quality claimant in this thread looks less and less likely.
> elsewhere in the thread, ask why he didn't use something other than Jessie,
> which might suit better. I was actually thinking of Stretch or Mint. (I
> woudl use Stretch. ;-) ) But any more modern distro might get on better
> with what may be very modern (certainly fairly recent) hardware.
Jessie isn't that old (2015) but things do move on, so when there a
hardware problem (and we do not know that in this case) stable/testing
is a good jumping off point.
> (Why didn't I use Stretch, instead of Skylake with Jessie? It wasn't my
> computer, and would have involved using either another DE or not-yet-ready
> software.)
Lucky you, being able to play with machines of others. I only have the
opportunity to muck up my own.
--
Brian.
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