Not an especially good day! I went round to see my friend because he wanted to show off his new Laptop. Very nice Acer on special offer from Argos a couple of weeks ago. I'm impressed (except for Windows 7). He did let me run a live CD (10.04) on it, and it is VERY compatible.
On the downside, I asked if I could plug his Epson Stylus SX218 combined printer/scanner into my 10.04 Dell Netbook. It found the printer, installed a driver, and the test simply spewed blank sheets of paper out. Just what he suspected - Ubuntu has problems! Back home, I looked at the bug page, and this bug is there, but fixed. I guess the drivers on 10.04 never got updated - it didn't offer to download anything as I hadn't got an internet connection at the time. Also, I couldn't get the scanner to appear. I seem to think I had to do a similar fix by editing something once before - permissions I think. But it would have been nice if the scanner had 'just worked'. I didn't have time to do anything fancy; maybe another time. Back home, I put 11.04 testing (64 bit) onto a second hard drive on my PC. Awful problems with Unity, which has finally died the death after making me boot into recovery mode, and telling me that the various components of Unity had shut down. It left me with the Gnome desktop. The problem was still there after doing a full update .... I can't see this as a reported bug, so I guess something just didn't install correctly. However, on the plus side, when I tried my video camcorder, it 'just worked' with no tweaks. I'm pleased about that. On the downside, now 11.04 has moved on to Pitivi, there are no video capture facilities available, so I had to get Kino to test it. Just now, I don't know of any other apps that offer video capture from a firewire port. So, using a video-camcorder is something I can write up. I'd like to know if there's any chance of Kino being brought back first though. I know PiTiVi is a nicer frontend, but without video-capture it is very limited. A further annoyance to me was that the 11.04 installation wrecked my existing grub and I had to get into the old OS using the new grub (on the second drive), take out the second drive (fortunately SATA) then re-install grub. It then did it again during the updates. I'd have liked it to ask me. Whom should I moan to? Regards, Barry Drake -- What do you see when you use your Computer? Same old thing? ...There IS a Better Way! Ubuntu! _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
