On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:01 AM <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:35:04 PM George Olson wrote: > > I have an RX 6600 XT also. I use a 4 monitor setup and had to configure > > things so that it would work with 2 on top and 2 on the bottom. I can't > > remember exactly how I did it, but I first installed Bullseye and > > figured out it wasn't going to work. I had enough of a functional > > graphics environment and terminal to change all my sources to Testing, > > which goes by the codename Bookworm, because to me that was easier than > > trying to figure out how to use backports to install a newer kernel. > > From the peanut gallery (I almost always run with the default kernel in > whatever distro I'm using), I'm guessing that if the only thing you > installed > from Testing was a kernel, that would be fairly stable. (I imagine (but > don't > know) that when kernels get to testing they have been tested fairly well, > even > before showing up in Debian. >
Testing and Sid track pretty close to the latest kernel releases. Testing currently has version 6.0.10. New kernel versions are first uploaded to Sid then after about a week they are uploaded to testing. Testing, when not in freeze, is more like a rolling distro than a stable distro. > > Once I got that running, it has basically been going without a hitch. > > Testing seems to be almost as stable as regular Debian Bullseye like I > > have on my laptop. I haven't run into any major snags yet. > > -- > rhk > > (sig revised 20221206) > > If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; > avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma (and semi-colon) > included at no charge.) If you revise the topic, change the Subject: > line. > If you change the topic, start a new thread. > > Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal documents > excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including > liberal use of whitespace (short paragraphs, separated by whitespace / > blank > lines) and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, and > references. > > If someone has already responded to a question, decide whether any > response > you add will be helpful or not ... > > A picture is worth a thousand words. A video (or "audio"): not so much -- > divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript > and > edit it to 10% of the original. > > A speaker who uses ahhs, ums, or such may have a real physical or mental > disability, or may be showing disrespect for his listeners by not properly > preparing in advance and thinking before speaking. (Remember Cicero who > did > not have enough time to write a short missive.) (That speaker might have > been > "trained" to do this by being interrupted often if he pauses.) > > A radio (or TV) station which broadcasts speakers with high pitched voices > (or > very low pitched / gravelly voices) (which older people might not be able > to > hear properly) disrespects its listeners. Likewise if it broadcasts > extraneous or disturbing sounds (like gunfire or crying), or broadcasts > speakers using their native language (with or without an overdubbed > translation). > > A person who writes a sig this long probably has issues and disrespects > (and > offends) a large number of readers. ;-) > ' > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
