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 :)

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn@badger.pro> 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 <mbushroe@gmail.com> 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

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