Re: [tlug] Modprobe error

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Josh,
> I would recommend that you tell Ubuntu to ask you about all upgrades,
> and simply discard them unless they meet criteria (1) or (2), above.
> Which will be Not Very Often, and will result in you having a stable
> box that Just Works when you want to watch TV.


You make a good case, and I will incorporate a lot of what you say into 
my approach.

A main caveat is included in the part where you talk about upgrading to 
get a "nifty new feature" that I'm "dying to use".

The thing is that right now I don't see my box as being really complete. 
My printer and palm pilot still don't work. And after banging my head 
against trying to make them work for so long (I have two long and 
incomplete threads about them in the TLUG archives), it became clear 
that the problems were unspecific and beyond people's ability to help. I 
haven't even started on my web-cam (since it works with Vmware/Windows 
anyway). And there have been some wonky things that seem to have cleared 
up over time with successive upgrades. Things like my SD card reader, 
ALSA mixer, and so on.

So I have been tempted to keep upgrading by the fact that it has helped, 
and may yet still help, with issues that I don't have a clear enough 
diagnosis of to really focus on fixing myself.

Might it not be just as good an approach to keep upgrading, and boot to 
an earlier kernel when things don't work as expected?

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Dave M G