The only issue I've had with a graphics card in the last 10 years was with an nvidia card; kernel 3.11+ blows up their native drivers. The nouveau driver works but it has issues with laggy video/etc. With a laptop you can't really do anything about it but on my desktop that had that problem I followed Linus Torvald's advice... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ :) -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) jd@twingeckos.com On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Shawn Badger wrote: > I haven't had to tweak my kernel for such for any device. I am curious as > to what graphics card your laptop has. > But then I again, I haven't had a problem with any updates I have gotten > in the last 10 years either. > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > >> I have also had problems allowing updates. In my case it usually means >> that there was a generic kernel 'upgrade', and that seems to break several >> things on my system. I seem to remember that menuconfig can be used. I >> guess I need to find out what tweaks are needed for my graphics processor >> and laptop to be happy and store them in a text file. Then when ever they >> push another kernel on me, go back to menuconfig and the text file set >> things right. But it seems easier just to refuse kernel upgrades for quite >> awhile, until I am worried the system may have too many exploits that have >> become better known and it is time to plug any possible leaks. >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> "Creativity is intelligence having fun." — Albert Einstein >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >