Installed Whizzy 7.5, But can't seem to get Gnome 3.12 to fully function, It still looks like the classic and not the latest.
Also it is lacking Administation functions?
Need help to reconfigure full gnome desktop.

A Gnome is not an Elf.

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HI,
Gnome 3.X requires hardware rendering from your video device. You probably don't have the required drivers installed (or perhaps your video device is not capable of this).
Is that a question?
Start by working out what video device you have. Eg
Evo2.

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Or, a wizard. Check in Synaptic and see if you have Gnomes admin packages installed, did you use a DVD and do a full install? I've never liked Gnome but you can work around its limitations...

Edit\add: I'm a slow typist.

What are the specs of your computer (especially RAM and video RAM) and what video card is installed?

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I was thinking of that too... KDE?

Install 'firmware-linux' package, reboot, report.

Or, "non-free-firmware..."

Debian stable has latest Gnome 3.12? It's not available in many other bleeding distros ;-) On Wheezy GNOME is at versio 3.4 and hence the 'classic' look I guess. If you meant gnome2 like classic, then the above suggestions by others hold.
Refer Debian's GNOME wiki.

frank@debian:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
frank@debian:~$

root@debian:/home/frank# apt-get install 'firmware-linux'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
hyphen-en-us
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
amd64-microcode firmware-linux-nonfree intel-microcode iucode-tool
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amd64-microcode firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree intel-microcode
iucode-tool
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,110 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,250 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-linux iucode-tool amd64-microcode
intel-microcode
Install these packages without verification
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
E: Some packages could not be authenticated

What to do next?

The Intel Haswell graphics is not really supported on Wheezy, you will need a newer kernel/Xorg/Mesa for that. YOur best bet would be to use a newer distribution or switch to Testing/Unstable (only do that if you can handle occasional breakage).

Thanks, Could you walk me through getting a new kernel?
Thanks to to all for your input.
fvs

A newer kernel alone (which can be obtained from the Debian Backports repositories) may not be sufficient, likely you will also need a newer xorg-video-intel and a newer Mesa, which are not provided by Backports.
But of course you can start trying with a newer kernel.

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Thanks,
what is the command for upgrade kernel