Chris Evans wrote: > > Marek Straka wrote: > > Install debian - wheezy. It is nearly stable. You have quite new > > hardware in your notebook. > > Yes, I wondered if that was the way to go. Am I right in thinking > that there's a wheezy live install option? I'm sure that if there > is, that should be a good next step.
Since you already have Squeeze 6 installed I wouldn't be completely hasty about re-installing. Because the Wheezy installation process is still not ready for prime time. Instead I would add backports to the sources.list file and install the backported kernel as a first step. Because you undoubtedly need a newer kernel to match your newer hardware. Because your graphics problems are that it doesn't know about your newer hardware and so has fallen back to the vesa driver. deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports contrib non-free Then: # apt-get update # apt-get install -t squeeze-backports install firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-linux-free linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae Replace "686-pae" with the appropriate kernel matching what you have already installed on your machine. Likely candidates are "686-pae" and "amd64". Then reboot and see if your X driver is improved. Hopefully that will fix it. But I think it actually about 50/50 that it won't. See the Bug#687442 for a trail of problems with the 3.2 Wheezy kernel due to removed support for various hardware. But also included is a solution using a proposed kernel with forward/backward ported support for much of the hardware. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687442 Hopefully that proposed test kernel will resolve your hardware support issues. If not then I suggest repeating the above one last time using the experimental linux-image-3.7-trunk-$ARCH kernel. I would avoid the work of the full re-install, it isn't needed, and try the newer kernels out in isolation first. If any of those work then you are good to go. Bob
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