returning to 8.04....

[andreasj64]

... does anyone know how it's going go loading 8.04 over 8.10?

[aged hippy]

Re: returning to 8.04....

How do you mean?

[andreasj64]

Re: returning to 8.04....

I mean, putting in the 8.04 CD and installing right over top 8.10. i'd like to keep my contacts intact if possible, from Kontact. That's about all I care about at this point.

[dibl]

Re: returning to 8.04....

Andreas, does the 8.10 Live CD work reasonably on your machine (ignoring the slow speed of it)?

[andreasj64]

Re: returning to 8.04....

I did an upgrade online, but i just downloaded the 8.10 and noticed I could do that... trying it now

[aged hippy]

Re: returning to 8.04....

Never mind.... i always was a one-finger typist.

[andreasj64]

Re: returning to 8.04....

well, so far, nope...

[andreasj64]

Re: returning to 8.04....

well, it's definitely something to do with the graphics adapter. it works in safe graphics mode off the live CD, but I can't get failsafe to work off the hard drive. any clue how to permantley put my system into this safe graphics mode state?

[jglen490]

Re: returning to 8.04....

well, it's definitely something to do with the graphics adapter. it works in safe graphics mode off the live CD, but I can't get failsafe to work off the hard drive. any clue how to permantley put my system into this safe graphics mode state?

What graphics card do you have, and did it work correctly in 8.04?

By "can't get failsafe to work", do you mean that selecting the recovery option from Grub doesn't bring you to the command line?

[andreasj64]

Re: returning to 8.04....

I got it working...

Someone suggested adding Defaultdepth 16 to the xorg.conf file, and it worked. Color isn't where it should be, but I'm running now, and can access a more sensible driver update. The CLI is cumbersome for searches.

[wastedfluid]

Re: returning to 8.04....

I seem to have the same type of issue.

I'm just going back to 8.04 permanently.

[devlin]

Re: returning to 8.04....

I am as well at least until major improvements are done. As I've mentioned in another post 8.10 is the first Linux install I've done that X locks up my system randomly and so tightly my ONLY option is to kill the power. Locks keyboard, mouse, once it made me pull my a/c cable and battery.

8.10 feels like I'm running Windows again with the freezing and crashing, as well as the lack of access to basic graphic changes (adapter/monitor settings) without having to edit conf files manually It is actually worse than Windows!

Shuttleworth wanted Ubuntu to be more Windows like......it appears he's attained his goal with 8.10......

[Dart]

Re: returning to 8.04....

ditto here devlin...this release has been the only Linux distribution that has not worked for me no matter what attempts I make...and on 3 seperate computers. Tried thru adept, dvd and cd live. Will continue with 8.04.1 until maybe an 8.2 surfaces