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On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:50 -0500, Brent Busby wrote:

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> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

>

> > I experienced the same issues regarding to the resolution and the 60

> > Hz stroboscope (and a non working mouse wheel for my PS/2 mouse, slow

> > down Internet for PPPoE etc.) with current debianoid Linux. They drop

> > old hardware, even if they claim not to do.

>

> I don't know if it's related to your problem, but since I run Gentoo, I

> see a lot of the changes that happen as they come down from upstream.

>

> Some things that have changed recently regarding the kernel and X11, or

> at least probably since the last time you upgraded:

>

> * KMS is now becoming normal.  KMS is Kernel Mode Setting, which means

>    the kernel now has control of your video resolution rather than the X

>    server.  This is apparently more efficient at the machine level, but

>    because it is now just debuting, it is still somewhat buggy on some

>    video chipsets.  (I have an older Radeon card at home that it doesn't

>    work on without all sorts of video problems, but a newer Radeon at

>    work that KMS works flawlessly on.)  Because KMS is now in charge of

>    setting your screen resolution, your problem may be related.  It is

>    possible to disable it, either with a kernel parameter passed from

>    Grub ("nomodeset"), or by recompiling your kernel with the KMS option

>    set to default to off.  I had to do this with my home machine.

>

> * Individual device drivers for X11 input devices (keyboard, mouse,

>    trackpad, etc.) have become obsolete.  No longer does X use a keyboard

>    driver, a mouse driver, and so on.  One driver called 'evdev' now

>    handles all input.

>

> * Also, this isn't the actual upstream Linux kernel, but is Debian --

>    they have now decided to drop non-OpenSource firmware blobs from their

>    packaged kernel.  This has the effect of making some peripherals that

>    once worked fine now unusable on the packaged Debian kernel.  In some

>    cases, it even makes Debian uninstallable on machines which need such

>    firmware blobs to run their disk controllers.

>

> Your problem could be something else entirely though...Linux is a

> rolling stone.

Thank you for the explanation :)
I had a stressful week with setting up Linux and I'm not ready yet, but

the only thing I didn't get working is the mouse. I replaced it with an

USB mouse, anything else does work. Now I only need to set up

nonessentials.

Most things seems to work better, than they have ever worked before.

Regarding to the Internet it could be issues caused by my provider, I

don't know.
The computer now seems to be in a good shape and my systolic blood

pressure was at 154 in the morning and is at 142 now ;), if I reach 139

Linux and I are ok again. Oh, this is for the imaginary OT blog.
I did expect trouble with audio, but not with anything else.

Still euphoric, but not pissed of.
My impression is that audio reached a very high quality state, but that

the environment, desktop, X etc. might do a small step in the wrong

direction, but at the moment I'm unable to see it dispassionate.
Hm, ok, time to stop writing OT, but I liked to reply.
Should do a backup now.
Best,
Ralf
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