Webcam not working on Thinkpad E520

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Daniel Wayne Armstrong <daniel-HRJVlgn2G/y5aS82P/H3Zg at public.gmane.org>

| When running VLC failed to display video I suspected - combined with
| the webcam/desktop freezes - there might be a deeper problem with the
| X environment. I checked to see if there was a more recent Xorg
| package in Debian backports ... there is. Replacing the default Xorg
| and Intel driver in Squeeze with the backported versions + the
| backported kernel resolved the issue.

This is the kind of thing that scares me away from Debian.

I like it when the distro takes care of me.

I will admit:

- my trust in Fedora and Ubuntu has not always been justified.

- I'm being a bit like a Windows user: if it is broken, someone
  else will fix it or it will stay broken.

I'd like to be braver.

How do you keep aware of backports?  How do you decide whether to use
one?
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