On 19/06/2015, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to >> it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, >> I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. > > Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, > confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? >
As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for about two years, now, to get Debian working on this computer, so that it can work with the external monitor. The status of Debian Linux, with the computer, is that it is partly functional, like some printers are apparently partly functional with Linux. Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are performed, if they are deemed serious enough, and, for the packages that are not abandoned, and, development of the version and its packages, is abandoned, like when I once worked at a pulp and paper mill, which used to close down production for three days every christmas, with only repairs and maintenance and cleaning being done, except here, the shutdown of production, becomes permanent, and maintenance mode takes over (for as long as the maintenance is performed), once a version is decreed stable, and "released". And so,I have been trying for about two years, to get Debian Linux workiing on this computer, to the extent that it can, like Ubuntu 12.04, drive the external monitor, and transfer the display completely, to the external monitor, when the external monitor is connected. And, I have not yet, been able to achieve that. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- 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/cacx6j8odcwwhgcrkgh5u-kjzh6grem6wceoztynlftsro9w...@mail.gmail.com
