Yesterday evening I started upgrading my notebook to the Ubuntu Lucid Beta 2, and I felt I could write about it:
first I prepared a booting usb stick to be able to do some restorations if things fail.
running update-notifier-kde -d took some time downloading all the packages. the installer asked some questions (so if you do it, take a look at the progress every now and then).
after the first reboot I was quite excited that everything seems to work (wlan, the amd video driver). I did some testing, then went to bed.
today in the morning, things didn't look so good anymore. for some reason, the screen resolution is not correctly set after booting the system (this causes my plasma applets positioning being screwed). then, a new fglrx driver came in, after the reboot I had no graphics. I wasn't able to uninstall the fglrx driver because the postrm script failed (it complained about removing a file that is also owned by another package, xorg-driver-fglrx afair). to get rid of fglrx, I commented 2 lines in the postrm script, then the uninstall was fine. after a reboot, I installed fglrx again. now I had the amdcccle application back. the screen resolution setting done with amdcccle survived reboots.
the next thing I worked on was wireless lan. It perfectly worked last night, in the morning it did not. I actually didn't do anything, but after a reboot without having the wired lan cable pluged in, it worked again (I hate problems being solved without knowing the cause).
there is definitely a problem with wireless, I can't enable it if it's not enabled by default when booting (added to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/522545)
so, I didn't do a lot today, the most problematic thing is that krunner has some real regressions compared to the kde version in karmic (sometimes it's really slow, I already had lots of crashes), I need to file the bug reports as soon as i get usable backtraces.
another thing I currently dislike is the absence of sun-java (but it seems my java apps work with openjdk) (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a6/+bug/515678 ).
so, I have a usable system running Lucid (which I initially wanted to have because of the improved Core i7 support), I hope the remaining issues get fixed until end of april (ok, the fglrx part is AMD's problem - I really hope the open source driver in 10.10 supports power management of the graphics chip, then I'll give it a try)
update
I just verified that the improved power management for my Corei7 cpu works (overclocking seems to work too) - almost everything is quite fine. the temperature plamoid also reports lower temperatures (at least a bit lower)
first I prepared a booting usb stick to be able to do some restorations if things fail.
running update-notifier-kde -d took some time downloading all the packages. the installer asked some questions (so if you do it, take a look at the progress every now and then).
after the first reboot I was quite excited that everything seems to work (wlan, the amd video driver). I did some testing, then went to bed.
today in the morning, things didn't look so good anymore. for some reason, the screen resolution is not correctly set after booting the system (this causes my plasma applets positioning being screwed). then, a new fglrx driver came in, after the reboot I had no graphics. I wasn't able to uninstall the fglrx driver because the postrm script failed (it complained about removing a file that is also owned by another package, xorg-driver-fglrx afair). to get rid of fglrx, I commented 2 lines in the postrm script, then the uninstall was fine. after a reboot, I installed fglrx again. now I had the amdcccle application back. the screen resolution setting done with amdcccle survived reboots.
the next thing I worked on was wireless lan. It perfectly worked last night, in the morning it did not. I actually didn't do anything, but after a reboot without having the wired lan cable pluged in, it worked again (I hate problems being solved without knowing the cause).
there is definitely a problem with wireless, I can't enable it if it's not enabled by default when booting (added to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/522545)
so, I didn't do a lot today, the most problematic thing is that krunner has some real regressions compared to the kde version in karmic (sometimes it's really slow, I already had lots of crashes), I need to file the bug reports as soon as i get usable backtraces.
another thing I currently dislike is the absence of sun-java (but it seems my java apps work with openjdk) (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a6/+bug/515678 ).
so, I have a usable system running Lucid (which I initially wanted to have because of the improved Core i7 support), I hope the remaining issues get fixed until end of april (ok, the fglrx part is AMD's problem - I really hope the open source driver in 10.10 supports power management of the graphics chip, then I'll give it a try)
update
I just verified that the improved power management for my Corei7 cpu works (overclocking seems to work too) - almost everything is quite fine. the temperature plamoid also reports lower temperatures (at least a bit lower)