On 12 April 2013 06:32, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:41:57PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> I upgraded the kernel to linux-image-3.8-trunk-amd64 from Debian
> experimental and, so far, the video symptoms haven't recurred.

just noticed your reply, hadn't seen it earlier.

have you noticed any oddities with USB on the 3.8 kernel?

I've been running the mainline Ubuntu 3.8.5 kernel on my Mac Air, and it's been perfect.

they're not bad keyboards, not great but better than the typical cheap
junk keyboards, but I have noticed weird problems with them in the past
(e.g. until recently, maybe 3.2 or 3.5 or the 3.7 kernel, they'd freeze
and need to be unplugged and plugged back in after a reboot...something
in the linux kernel initialisation confused them. it was linux-specific
because my gaming machine which is dual-boot linux & windows 7 had the
problem when booting linux but not booting win7). i think the problems
are due to the weird USB hub they have built in to them.

Agreed about the quality of the keyboard. I have had experiences where that multimedia keyboard did not get recognised by IBM servers though (couldn't press the key to enter the bios, and once in the OS, didn't register any keypress). But on the whole, it has been a very good keyboard.

Sean