War Story: HP 2000 Laptop

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:59:54AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Slightly scarily, I tried out the 3.2.0-4 kernel (in testing) last
> night, and that
> turned out strangely badly, where very shortly after the kernel started, the
> screen blanked, and there was no indication of further activity of the system.
> Possibly just a screen confusion; I didn't check further.  Too many things
> *useful* to do to the system.
> 
> Adding in a 3.7+ kernel looks not too troublesome; I suppose that I add in
>    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
> and some pin rules, such as:
> cbbrowne at cbbrowne ~/firefox> cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/simple
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 700
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 650
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 600
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 100
> 
> The other little entertainment was that I had to work a little harder than
> expected to get Firefox going.
> - The built-in iceweasel is a rather too elderly version.
> - The tarball that comes from a "default" download from Mozilla
>   is a 32 bit build, and my system hasn't 32 bit libs.  Installing
>   32 bit libraries seemed a bit of a pain, so I went with...
> - Pulling a specifically-64-bit Firefox tarball.

You don't need pinning.  experimental is ALWAYS lower priority and you
have to explicitly ask for such packages by version (or by name if only
experimental contains the package).

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Len Sorensen
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