On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:32 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > Well, I upgraded my Thinkpad X31 over the weekend from 8.10 to the > beta of 9.04. It mostly went pretty smoothly, but I hit a couple of > snags. The installer did not put the new kernel in GRUB's menu.lst > file - I just picked the default option and this was to leave menu.lst > alone. The result was an error on bootup that CPU scaling was not > supported on my processor. > > I found the new kernel, manually amended the file, checked it worked, > which it did just fine, and removed the old kernel using Synaptic - > which once again newrote menu.lst and removed my hand-added entries. > It's a very good job I checked before I rebooted. Happily I have a > docking station for this machine with a DVD drive in, so I could have > fixed this by hand, but otherwise, I would have been stranded. I don't > /think/ the machine can boot from USB - I do not own any PC that can, > AFAIK. > > Also, 9.04 seems to enable Compiz by default, which is agonizingly > slow on my ATI Rage Mobility chipset. The machine was unable to keep > up with my 2-finger typing and was unpleasant to use. The transparent > notifications from Pidgin and on using my special IBM keys to change > volume or screen brightness looked great in Compiz. Now I have > disabled it, performance is sluggish but usable, but the notifications > appear in an ugly black box overlaid on the top-right corner of the > screen. > > What app produces these notifications, does anyone know? I'd like to > investigate its settings and see if it can do its own alpha-blending, > and if not, just turn it off... > > Anyone reckon these things are worth filing as bugs? > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven > Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 > AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven > MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 >
Any bug is worth reporting but always check to see that you don't duplicate :) Your bug report makes ubuntu better. If it is something that can't be dealt with then the report will soon get tagged as invalid or fixed. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
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