Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:24:42 +0200, lee wrote:
> Sid is stable?
Dude... what a question for a user running testing :-)
Sid is the codename for unstable.
> I want to run testing and not stable, and shouldn't the
> packages in testing not be newer than the ones in Sid?
Sid has the most updated verions of the packages.
> And if the packages in testing should be more recent than the ones in
> stable, then why downgrade them to older versions?
I think you need more reading on Debian available versions :-P
> Some packages currently installed may be from unstable or experimental
> because I needed more recent versions of them --- IIRC, the mumble ones
> are. I would want to keep those until testing catches up.
Then this can be the culprit for all your mess unless you had configure
apt repositories priorities properly.
> ,----
> | lee@yun:~$ LANG=C apt-cache policy
(...)
What the hell is all that bunch of repositories? :-O
You need an urgent reorganization for your repos and also reducing the
number of them as you have too many defined.
> While (unsuccessfully) trying to use more recent NVIDIA drivers because
> with the ones from testing the X-session randomly froze, I added the
> i386 architecture because that was recommended. I'm not so sure if that
> was a good idea ... Fortunately, the freezing problem seems to have been
> fixed :)
At a high cost, I'd say...
> BTW, what is the Debian way of specifying different locales for
> different users?
That will depend on the DE you're on (or if you're on none). There's more
info on locales here:
http://wiki.debian.org/Locale
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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