Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread David Christensen
On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. If you want a GNU/Linux distribution that "just works", one possibility is Debia

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 17 December 2022 9:00:49 pm UTC, Gary Dale wrote: >>On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: > My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I > select a normal boot - it

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:58, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: … the practical answer is install and find out. There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out". https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should consider contr

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.71793

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > … the practical answer is install and > find out. There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out". https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should consider contributing as well. "apt show hwinfo". Anot

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread David Christensen
On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recove

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-12-17 Thread Eric S Fraga
I'm in a similar position for a Dell workstation at work. I decided to keep it as it came, with ubuntu 20.04. Some annoying niggles/differences compared with Debian which I use on all of my other systems but as this system acts as a server mostly, they are not particularly worrying. It's annoyin

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but t