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**martha**
December 3rd, 2008, 12:33 AM
Just reporting that I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 with no problem!
The cleanest upgrade I ever had. If you are still considering it, here is a few information about my system, that was working pretty well before the upgrade.

Dell Latitude D630
nvidia graphics card
broadcom wireless

- sound works well (with skype inclusive. had problem at first, but restarted twice and the problem was gone.)

- 3d acceleration works well (compiz, etc..)

- wireless ok (had to restart once, after enabling the non-public driver)


only problem: I never managed to make it work with a datashow/beamer. I will try again tomorrow morning, to see if the new nvidia driver does any good with this. did you have this problem as well with the 8.04 version? tell me how did you solve it, please!

cheers..

wirawan0
December 3rd, 2008, 02:25 PM
Did you try to adjust brightness via Fn+Up/Fn+Dn yet? It is troublesome on 8.10. See this posting:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6096699&postcount=16

There is a workaround, so you may want to read that first before trying it out. Let me know if you also has that same trouble.

Wirawan

ojee66
December 25th, 2008, 11:48 AM
your problem for beamer..

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1040046

well not complete solution, i made the new xorg file, but still can not get my laptop screen as first and my tft as second screen to work.

still working on that part