An engineer's life around Kyoto

I recently upgraded my wheezy box to jessie. As always, upgrade ended in success. It's amazing for me that all the major upgrade have never made my Linux box ruined. I believe that both well-designed package management system and the Debian developer's effort have achieved this result. Thanks a lot, all the contributors!

It's been a long time since my last post. Recently, I bought a secondhand Panasonic T7 laptop PC. It was as much as seven thousand yen (about 76 USD), and I am pleasant for the price. I installed Debian 7.1 (wheezy) to the PC and set up Xfce desktop environment. Most of the things went well, but the X-Window system didn't recognize automatically that its touch pad device was circle and able to sense tapping operations. I was disappointed a while, but managed to write additional configurations for the X server with a help of the man page of Synaptics touch pad input driver. For reminder,  here it is: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputClass"     Identifier  "MyTouchPad"     MatchDriver      "synaptics"     Option        "TapButton1" "1"     Option        "CircularPad" "true"     Option  ...

The Debian's next major version 'wheezy' is planned to be released this year. Before the release, I have already upgraded my home PC to wheezy. But after I upgraded the latest kernel, I have experienced kernel crashes frequently. Owing to the detailed review and good inspiration of the kernel maintainers, the cause was detected shortly and the fix has been prepared for the next kernel package release. The cause was a wrong change of the Intel graphics controller's driver, which was introduced to the wheezy's kernel in the last autumn. The crashes of this cause seems to be reported on the BTS only on the PC's with Intel 82865G graphics driver. I hope owner of the PC's like mine be happy until the wheezy is released.