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Why suffer the *UPDATE* setback & Hardware view ?

From no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Why suffer the *UPDATE* setback & Hardware view ?
Date 2016-01-04 02:17 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <n6ckne$g2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

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Reading these bank-clerk mentality opinions of 'get the latest'
[rubber wheels & shoe soles wear out], reminds one of the problem
that the original light bulb manufacturers had when they realised
that their product lasted too long, and they couldn't sell fresh-milk
every day.

2009: Slak13 had a subtle/painfull problem: after non-use, when the
display shuts-down, xpdf & others show 'fuzzy' - related to gamma.

An older Slak12.x based liveCD has no such problem.

After much pain & wasted effort, advice to: 
  xset s off
  xset -dpms
solves the problem.

Some year/S later, Slak13's partition 'overflows' & causes CRASH!
TextToSpeech generates *BIG* files.

Attempts to reinstall Slak13 from the same CD, to other partition/S fail 
with xorg errors?! 
BLINDLY copying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf* files from old Slak12.x solves
the problem.

Has there been a change in the hardware?
Did that cup of water spilled over the running MOBO, which took-out
the power, cause permanent change, and relate to DebWheezy losing
kybrd & mouse when going X?   But it's running OK now.

While running old Slak12.x I noticed that mouse slowing was possible
by: xset m <Arg1 Arg2> . But not in Slak13 ?! But xset is confirmed by
xset s off +  xset -dpms; being effective, in Slak13 ?!

Who would want to *upgrade* with all this punishment?
Don't name it an "issue" when it's a PROBLEM.

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Why suffer the *UPDATE* setback & Hardware view ? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 02:17 +0000
  Re: Why suffer the *UPDATE* setback & Hardware view ? JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-01-04 04:41 +0000
  Re: Why suffer the *UPDATE* setback & Hardware view ? Doug713705 <doug.letough@free.fr> - 2016-01-04 09:35 +0000

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