The release notes said that monitors must support 3D graphics, which should be most monitors made within the last 10 years. My laptop is about that old, so I figured that must be it. I installed KDE, and it works fine.
I also changed my sources.list to avoid a surprise like this in the future. Thanks for the help! On May 3, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-05-03, John Aten <welcome.to.eye.o.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> --Apple-Mail-2--756983614 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii >> >> I am not in fact running wheezy. I got confused, it is Jesse.=20 >> >> /etc/apt/sources.list: >> # Debian packages for stable >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib >> # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' >> # to work with most packages. >> # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib >> >> # Security updates for stable >> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib >> >> # Added October 1, to install newer Zotero >> deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main > > Yes, you are running jessie /now/, and the upgrade you described was an > upgrade from wheezy to jessie. The reason for that is that you identify > the release in your sources.list file as 'stable'. Up to last weekend, > stable meant wheezy; now it means jessie. > > I suggest you consult the release notes[1] and check that the upgrade is > complete. There might be some housekeeping to do. > > I also suggest that you change occurrences of 'stable' in sources.list to > 'jessie'. That will prevent inadvertent release upgrades in future. You > have about two years to do that. :-) > > -- > > Liam > > 1: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmkcmdd.hdd.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/10af49da-297f-4140-8a65-b574d4c40...@gmail.com
