There is something seriously wrong with the i386 version of Kubuntu 12.04, and I have no idea how to even begin a bug report on it, so I'll begin here and report my experiences with it. Allot of this is from memory, so forgive me if I forget something.
My system:
Ausus M5A97 Motherboard
AMD Phenom X6 1090T processor
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 based graphics card with 1GB DDR3 RAM.
It all started a week or so, I believe, after 12.04 was released, when I did a system upgrade from 11.10. Phonon is totally hosed on this setup. VLC sound is scratch, at best, and any attempt to adjust volume during any sound being played will, at first, create an echo effect, then, if I keep adjusting it, the system will freeze.
After fighting with that for a few days, I went back to 11.10, which works like a charm. Today, I decided to give the amd64 version a try. After base install, sound works great, VLC works great and there seemed to be no problems at all. That is, until I tried to run Eclipse. Eclipse dosen't seem to like openjdk, at least not on my system. Trying to install the official java was fruitless, Eclipse kept crashing, and I need eclipse now so trouble shooting java is not an option at this time.
I then decided, since there were no problems with the amd64 build, Nvidia drivers installed automatically, sound was working without scratchiness and/or echo-hangups and dragging windows across the screen was snappy, I would go with a clean install of the i386 build. Same sources, right? It had to be a problem with the upgrade form 11.10, right? Well, no. A fresh install of the i386 build results in the same problems as an upgrade from 11.10 did with the added issue of not installing the Nvidia drivers. Also, after installing the Nvidia drivers, video does not seem to be accelerated. Dragging anything across the desktop results in choppy movement.
Needless to say, I am not happy with 12.04, especially the i386 build. I'm off right now to try the amd64 build again starting from scratch in installing Eclipse and its plugins I use. I'm hoping the problem with that was that I was using my restored home directory with some i386 plugins or something....
Don't know. We'll see how that goes before reverting back to 11.10. Hopefully if it comes to that, 12.10 will be better behaved.
My system:
Ausus M5A97 Motherboard
AMD Phenom X6 1090T processor
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 based graphics card with 1GB DDR3 RAM.
It all started a week or so, I believe, after 12.04 was released, when I did a system upgrade from 11.10. Phonon is totally hosed on this setup. VLC sound is scratch, at best, and any attempt to adjust volume during any sound being played will, at first, create an echo effect, then, if I keep adjusting it, the system will freeze.
After fighting with that for a few days, I went back to 11.10, which works like a charm. Today, I decided to give the amd64 version a try. After base install, sound works great, VLC works great and there seemed to be no problems at all. That is, until I tried to run Eclipse. Eclipse dosen't seem to like openjdk, at least not on my system. Trying to install the official java was fruitless, Eclipse kept crashing, and I need eclipse now so trouble shooting java is not an option at this time.
I then decided, since there were no problems with the amd64 build, Nvidia drivers installed automatically, sound was working without scratchiness and/or echo-hangups and dragging windows across the screen was snappy, I would go with a clean install of the i386 build. Same sources, right? It had to be a problem with the upgrade form 11.10, right? Well, no. A fresh install of the i386 build results in the same problems as an upgrade from 11.10 did with the added issue of not installing the Nvidia drivers. Also, after installing the Nvidia drivers, video does not seem to be accelerated. Dragging anything across the desktop results in choppy movement.
Needless to say, I am not happy with 12.04, especially the i386 build. I'm off right now to try the amd64 build again starting from scratch in installing Eclipse and its plugins I use. I'm hoping the problem with that was that I was using my restored home directory with some i386 plugins or something....
Don't know. We'll see how that goes before reverting back to 11.10. Hopefully if it comes to that, 12.10 will be better behaved.
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