firmware

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 09:50:57PM +0100, Steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Stats:
> System Linux mint 17 32-bit
> Cinnamon 2.2.16 all up to date
> Old Pentium 4, 1.70ghz
> Nvidia GeForce 7300GT
> 
> Probably not a problem although it has never happened before; I don't think.
> I see Linux-firmware 1.127.6 as an update to 1.127.5 (loaded) in synaptic.
> And am wondering why it doesn’t update with 'update-manager' nor can I
> select to update in synaptic.
> 
> It's just sitting there, all 65.9mb of it.
> Curious. No mention in the forums or Google that I can find.
> Should I do a force upgrade, or maybe dist-upgrade?
> 
> Steve

I (we) are not Mint experts, but I thought Mint's diferentiator was
that they held those kinds of packages (linux, linux-firmware, et al)
back letting Ubuntu users test them first.  Perhaps this is happening to
linux-firmware in this case.

-apw