Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-27 Thread mario . i . ruvalcaba
I do not understand your point of view very well, IMHO everything is in ok. Only the updates corresponding to X server (graphical stack) were applied with the following: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 Here is my log (sorry, my system's locale is Spanish

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-27 Thread jason
But they wanted to apply ***Ubuntu's*** LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8. Not Trisquel's. That's the very title of this thread. Pulling stuff from Ubuntu does raise this issue.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-26 Thread mario . i . ruvalcaba
you're right, I apply the update while installing the new version of the graphical stack, so in that sense would have no way to determine if the improvement in functionality is due to one or the other. Regads.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-26 Thread mario . i . ruvalcaba
Well, I still have the X server up and running (LOL!). The installation process only showed me some warnings harmless but noisy but everything happened correctly. As a first impression it seems to me that the rendering problem has been solved at the moment. I need to let more time pass to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-26 Thread mario . i . ruvalcaba
Thank you very much for the explanation, I am still adapting to the Trisquel's packages/structure. Of course, I was just planning to install the suggested package as following: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 Wish me luck. @jxself: Thanks to you too for your

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-26 Thread jason
Ubuntu's so-called "enablement" things also include a newer kernel. Ubuntu's kernel includes proprietary junk. So be careful because by pulling in their so-called "enablement" stuff you might also get their horrible kernel wit all of its warts and general ugliness. You have been warned.

[Trisquel-users] Is it possible to apply Ubuntu's LTS Enablement Stack upgrades in Trisquel 8?

2018-09-26 Thread mario . i . ruvalcaba
Hi everyone! Very probably this question is typical but I have searched the forum and I could not find a satisfactory answer to it. I have tried to follow the procedure described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack, but I get as a result the replacement of several