19/01/2011 @21:47:18 ^22:11:26

sid Well as promised I dist-upgraded* to unstable. Nothing really horrible has happened yet, but I'm sure it will. sid is relatively quiet at the moment because of Debian being frozen.

• If you have any local init scripts and you want this new dependency-based boot sequence thing you need to add dependency information to your scripts. I didn't really care but did it anyway.

• Firefox needed a few tweaks as usual, in particular it reverted to a two-year-old bookmarks list because my profile still had a bookmarks.html in it. Also I set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false in about:config** because I'm used to closing the last tab and being left with an about:blank rather than the program exiting completely.

One thing it didn't fix was mplayer still doesn't give any sound when trying to run a video that has surround sound in it. It goes

ALSA lib pcm.c:2190:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51

There's no surround51 section in /usr/share/alsa/cards/ENS1371.conf (probably because my soundcard is old and doesn't have any surround sound configuration, but it's better than this motherboard's onboard sound so I keep using it) so I think what i have to do is fake it in ~/.asoundrc. However I have yet to work out exactly how to do that.

* Well I say dist-upgraded, more that I manually did a few packages at a time, as I usually do. The first one was git. No surprise there.
** That link won't be clickable.