Re: [LAU] New computer planned

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 12:00 +0000, linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote: Hi Robin :) users still need to venture a guess what to take from what repo to get their hardware working with Debian. Debian didn't like my PS/2 mouse. I bought a USB mouse and everything was ok. Some upgrades later Debian didn't like my PS/2 keyboard and my USB mouse anymore. I only had X from stable installed, to keep the nv driver and everything else was from testing. Now there's the suggestion to compile the nv driver from git, anyway, there's no Debian that is really stable. If you get some Intel graphics you need testing, if you get some NVIDIA graphics, you need stable. Btw. it's vague that the mouse and keyboard issues were related to my X settings, since they already started with a vanilla install of Debian stable. For me it was easier to switch the distro, other users millage may vary. I don't like this policy of Debian and Debian derivatives. For current Ubuntu Oneiric, I don't have audio output for my RME card. It's not "just" that pulseaudio issue. I don't experience such issues for basic hardware using current Arch Linux or older Debian and Debian derivatives. Of cause, today, right now, I try to get USB WiFi ad-hoc working for the sextillionth time, since their seems a drivers available, to get the iPads MIDI by WiFi working with Linux. Here Debian "knows" the USB adapter by default, Arch Linux doesn't, still not working even for Debian, but this isn't something "basic" such as the graphics, keyboard and mouse are. Regards, Ralf