Hi Peter, I agree with you. I wanted to get the 2.6.27 kernel for a specific fix which allowed me to use my laptop unplugged. So I thought I'd be adventerous and try the beta release. Big mistake so far.
Hopefully things will be cleaned up soon. Best wishes, Vinod On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:45 PM, peter b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks Vinod. > > it is a 'wall' that in my case is v hard to penetrate so to speak - > there are quite a few issues that make me think about > > - the wired network is not detected ? hardy did a magnificent job, - why not > intrepid ? > - kinit issue - why when reconfiguring swap its size is decreased by 4KB than > what the fully functional hardy reports ? > - xorg.conf issue - why when using vesa driver on xorg.conf there is still no > desktop ? isn't it supposed to be fail safe ? my hardware supports it. > - on the same x issue - why did hardy have no problems configuring it > correctly and intrepid apparently fails on this account? > > there are too many unanswered questions, each and every one have the > potential to disrupt the desktop being functional. for sure there is a > bug hidden somewhere in the code that comes to life on my hardware setup > - and here again the question comes up, why did hardy install with no > problems on the same hardware ? I'm writing this in hardy; never had a > problem with it since april install. I'll wait and see what the full > release brings about. > > peter b > > -- > no desktop; kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/sda6) =sda(8,6) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277411 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Vinod Kurup, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurup.org -- no desktop; kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/sda6) =sda(8,6) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277411 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
