My Dell Latitude 610 was as close to perfect as I could get it under Ubuntu 8.04. The upgrade to 8.10 broke the graphics (most of the cool screensavers, GoogleEarth, LBreakout2). It screwed up VirtualBox: cursor freezes when I start a Virtual Windows XP session and remains onscreen, VitualBox's cursor takes over and is OK, on exit "real cursor" still frozen. It's a USB attached mouse, so I can unplug and replug it and it lives again.
Luckily, I have a Linux and XP partition. I can boot into Windows XP and run GoogleEarth in all it's magnificence, so I know my hardware is just fine. It's the (expletive deleted) change in something - what, I don't know - that made Ubuntu 8.10 a huge step backwards. I'm totally frustrated. I've tried all suggestions. I've tried the xserver-configure thing and it starts by asking about Frame buffers. IT NEVER ASKS which driver I would prefer. Other->OpenGL does nothing. Other->Screens and Graphics asks for a password. Then does nothing. I've got a ton of xorg.conf.you-name-it files. I've screwed around in /boot/config-2.6.27-10-generic. I've "lived" in Ubuntu for about a year. I love much about it; enough to make a few sacrifices. But that damn "other" partition is starting to whisper "Come back to the dark side". >From the threads I've read, this is a very old and unresolved problem with embedded Intel graphics chips. I'm thinking there are a ton of Dell laptop owners that have never seen how great their hardware can actually run. And a few of us that actually got it running somehow for a blessed while, and have been brought crashing back to earth. I need a new idea to keep me going. Nothing I've found works. -- [GME965] missing characters in Google Earth with DRI enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295934 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
