A few months ago I finally upgraded from Feisty to Intrepid. Everything was GREAT. My HP dv6000 laptop--which has the infamous Broadcom BCM43xx issue--as well as all my other computers ran like well-oiled machines. I really couldn't have been happier. Then I decided to upgrade to Jaunty...
Nothing...okay, almost nothing...worked right. Things I've had little-to-no trouble with for years, such as networking and wireless, simply would not work no matter how much manual tweaking I did. After about two weeks I just gave up.
I attempted to use the CD I had burned a few months ago to reinstall Intrepid, but [mysteriously] it had gone bad (sitting in a case on a shelf ). I burned a new CD and proceeded to install Intrepid on all my computers. Then I updated everything (e.g., KDE 4.1 was installed, I updated that to 4.2). And I STILL have a mess.
For one thing, KRDC--which I've used for years--no longer connects to the lone windoze box in this house. (I need it for one app--that DOES NOT work under wine.) This box sits unattended with no monitor, no keyboard, no trackball, nothing...and hasn't been touched in years. NOTHING has changed on it. It's just sitting there running TightVNC as it has for years, waiting for a connection. But KRDC and several other remote desktop apps I tried fail to even see it--despite all the computers seeing it and accessing it via the network.
There are random problems with applications closing when I attempt to select anything from their menu bars. Just, BOOM!, gone.
There are sound problems--sound randomly works/doesn't work, based on...who knows?! Here's an example: I created two new users--with IDENTICAL rights--then logged in as each. User #1 had perfect sound in GNU Backgammon and all other places, such as startup/shutdown sounds. User #2 had sound in GNU Backgammon but NOT for startup/shutdown. Later on, user #1 no longer had sound in GNU Backgammon. NOTHING sound-related had been touched. Huh?
Then there are graphics problems...which I never had before. I'm using the recommended driver for my NVIDIA card, but there are many flaky display issues I simply never had before.
Oh--NONE of these problems exists when I use GNOME or XFCE. But I'm a KDE person and want it to work right!
I WISH I had never had the bright idea to upgrade to Jaunty. Right now I just wish I could turn the clock back and reclaim the smoothly running computers I had a month ago.
(I'm mainly just venting. However, if you have any ideas on how to resolve any of these issues, I'd love to hear them!)
Nothing...okay, almost nothing...worked right. Things I've had little-to-no trouble with for years, such as networking and wireless, simply would not work no matter how much manual tweaking I did. After about two weeks I just gave up.
I attempted to use the CD I had burned a few months ago to reinstall Intrepid, but [mysteriously] it had gone bad (sitting in a case on a shelf ). I burned a new CD and proceeded to install Intrepid on all my computers. Then I updated everything (e.g., KDE 4.1 was installed, I updated that to 4.2). And I STILL have a mess.
For one thing, KRDC--which I've used for years--no longer connects to the lone windoze box in this house. (I need it for one app--that DOES NOT work under wine.) This box sits unattended with no monitor, no keyboard, no trackball, nothing...and hasn't been touched in years. NOTHING has changed on it. It's just sitting there running TightVNC as it has for years, waiting for a connection. But KRDC and several other remote desktop apps I tried fail to even see it--despite all the computers seeing it and accessing it via the network.
There are random problems with applications closing when I attempt to select anything from their menu bars. Just, BOOM!, gone.
There are sound problems--sound randomly works/doesn't work, based on...who knows?! Here's an example: I created two new users--with IDENTICAL rights--then logged in as each. User #1 had perfect sound in GNU Backgammon and all other places, such as startup/shutdown sounds. User #2 had sound in GNU Backgammon but NOT for startup/shutdown. Later on, user #1 no longer had sound in GNU Backgammon. NOTHING sound-related had been touched. Huh?
Then there are graphics problems...which I never had before. I'm using the recommended driver for my NVIDIA card, but there are many flaky display issues I simply never had before.
Oh--NONE of these problems exists when I use GNOME or XFCE. But I'm a KDE person and want it to work right!
I WISH I had never had the bright idea to upgrade to Jaunty. Right now I just wish I could turn the clock back and reclaim the smoothly running computers I had a month ago.
(I'm mainly just venting. However, if you have any ideas on how to resolve any of these issues, I'd love to hear them!)
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