-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Excuse me, he said Etch, not Sid and installing something from >> experimental in Etch is almost sure to cause problems. > > From his post, > "Today I installed sid to check whether that bug was solved but > no luck." > > At the moment, experimental is more of a waiting ground for packages not > intended for etch, and anyway, installing a few carefully selected > packages from experimental is not dangerous. > > I did recommend Xorg 7.2 (the one in experimental) because the radeon > has seen quite a lot of development, especially for r300 (used for the > rv350 cards also I think) and might have fixed whatever problems he had. >
So he did (and you corrected the punctuation. I missed that line. Sorry. As for experimental packages, you are also correct, but one must be careful which packages to install and it is something that is not for someone who is not familiar with the inner workings of the system because it can cause problems. For the record, I run Kernel 2.6.20.4 with KDE 3.5.6, in Sid, KDE being from experimental. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDLHLiXBCVWpc5J4RAj2PAJ0eUNCAFjeyWBHtzupXciSBN2gFegCgycND Kti9ItP3ycaPkPjS/ug50e8= =6aPe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
