Share with the community your Intrepid Ibex install/upgrade experience

[matze_]

My upgrade from 8.04 worked perfectly. No problems whatsoever.
Love the guest session.
Many Thanks to all the developers.

[saxofoner]

Thinkpad T61p - Excellent!

I installed from LiveCD, directly over my old 8.04 partition. I have had only one qualm with the new installer. Why on EARTH did it default to logical partions?! I had one NTFS partition, and a bunch of blank space. It defaulted to logical, and I figured it would be okay. Installation went well. Then...

GRUB error 17. (It couldn't find all the operating systems.) Rather than fight with that, I reinstalled to a primary partition, and GRUB saw everything fine.

Wireless - Worked out of the box.

Sound - I had to enable and unmute a bunch of channels in the mixer. Worked. I also had to do the infamous pulseaudio fixes, and I'm still having one issue: LMMS can't access the sound connections while I'm in a Skype call. Not a big deal. I just want to fix it. But they each work independently.

Graphics - NVidia driver detected and installed restricted driver perfectly. Compiz is choppy, I'm working on that. (Quadro 570M) Running TwinView with 2 monitors very nicely.

3 years running. I love Ubuntu. Works a little better oob each time.

[stanleo51]

eerg...

I'm actually surprised with the number of upgrade/absolute fails that were on the poll. Ubuntu's usually a very good OS.

Anyway. here's my story. I downloaded the ISO on the day 8.10 came out, and installed it later that week. I thought, hey maybe the new version can fix some of the hardware problems I'm having here.

Unfortunately I was wrong. Here are a few random things that happen with my computer:
-programs randomly close
-only about half the time does my computer actually enter Ubuntu, other times I just get a black screen
-my wireless is worse than before, download speeds are nonexistant and it drops constantly
-my add/remove will not install anything new.
-packages are not downloadable from the ubuntu repositories / insanely slow download speed, even on a fast wired network.
-when using any of the alternate desktops (alt + f1-f6, f8 ), it randomly returns to the main graphical desktop
-unable to remove wine (it came pre-installed on my computer, and there is no way to remove it!)
-random freezing, forcing a hard reset of my computer which likely makes these problems worse
-random glitches. (Multiple mice, creeping windows, brief garbled screen)
-new shutdown menu. (Okay, to be honest, I just don't like it. The status change by the name is an awesome feature, but I prefer to use the logout button (Power at the top right that was formerly the shutdown menu) to shut down the computer. I use ubuntu on my personal laptop, so I shut down more than log off. Perhaps there should be an option to customize the logout/shutdown window in a later release?

anyway, so I don't end on a bad note, This is what I like about the new version:
-IM status in the name bar. (slick and sweet)
-Unresponsive programs close/give force quit messages faster. (slow slow computer. )
-Computer runs slightly faster
-upgrade lost no sensitive files/information. (though my games are gone now. :O )
-easy to use, easy to install.

Suggestions: I'd like if Ubuntu was easier to customize. okay, it's very nice to customize many things, but some new changes between the releases are unchangebackable. (such as the shutdown screen)


Is there any way to roll back Ubuntu without losing my sensitive information? I'm thinking a repair install of 8.04, but I'm likely wrong on that. I miss my 8.04. )':

[TyTiger]

Wow lots of posts.. anyway
My experence was mixed sime im very geeky and have more than one computer.

Statisticly though it didnt go to well. I installed fresh on my desktop PC (one of) and that seems to be working fine, thoug my webcam doesnt anymore, used to use the Pixart driver now it uses the CIF Single cip and well doesnt work. As for my 2nd Desktop (Guest pc in another room) Err wellt hat was a total failure. X Server does not work at all on that one so it sitting happily on ubuntu 8.04 (its a Compaq Evo desktop thing.) Laptop was the same, though im haivng difficult with that on 8.04 also, nVidia Gefore 4 (go) Driver is a total flop. it doesnt build correctly and when it does work to any degree at all im stuck using 800x600 and often not all of my screen is filled, it either sits to the side with a blank patch or somwhere else on the screen if i try to change it... (yes my laptop is getting old.. its a Toshiba Satellite Pro) but it does te job.

Tiz the way with all things new and Shiney i guess.

Pacience is a vertue

Oh! And before i downgraded my laptop to 8.04 again, it often went in to screensaver mode and would never come out again. not frozen but a black screen with hard drive activity.

[ptaramelli]

Instalation 1 (desktop Intel d965wh,integrated souns & network + d530tx network card...), incredible!!!, everything allright, everything works fine, just tune up as I like it.
Instalation 2 (Desktop Intel 865, integrated sound + network, wireless broadcom etc), just one problem with wireless, i didn't need to use ndiswrapper, it recognize and install the wireless card, I can see my office netwok, but when I try to use it (insted of wired network), system hangs up, I have to solve it.
I still has to upgrade in my Dell notebook.

[mrlwalsh]

I upgraded one installation (wubi) on a core 2 duo with no problems. I installed another (wubi) on a relatively new laptop with no problems. I tried to upgrade a 3 year old laptop but got the "black screen of death" or "black screen of wait". Install could not correctly detect the Via display card. I checked some other threads, but have found no solutions yet.

I would like to upgrade an old Dell desktop from 8.04, but I will wait until I see a solution for the driver detection. That box is Ubuntu only and I don't want to chance a problem.

[berkbw]

I was REALLY looking forward to the newest and greatest Ubuntu release. Unfortunately, this one - 8.10 Upgrade - is almost as buggy as the FC1 to FC2 upgrade. This was an on-line upgrade.

FWIW, I'm running an Intel D865 mb, 1 1/4 G ram, CD, DVD, 240 gb across 2 drives, wired ethernet.

2.6.27 is worse than 2.6.24. When logging on at boot, the default session piles up the desktop icons, and they can not be dragged and dropped elsewhere. I had to use the x-script session. I did not have a gnome option in 2.6.27 sessions. I do in .24. The 1st program that I always run is BOINC in a terminal. My terminal color of choice is amber. I had to install gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal.wrapper to get that. PLACES does not work when trying for a directory. 1/2 of SYSTEM title was pointing to Thunderbird, which I had removed from the upper menu bar a month ago. I re-removed it, worked. Icons in the lower bar, in the sessions windows only occupy the top 1/2 of the window. I have had X freeze the display in normal windows completely white, and have had a complete system freeze requiring a hard reset.

Maybe it's too soon, 3 days, but I've had no updates.

Berk-

[LuxAeterna]

I upgraded to 8.10 yesterday, and regretted it seriously right up until 20 minutes ago.

After the upgrade, everything worked flawlessly, except my biggest concern, the wireless network connectivity. Also, when restarting, Ibex fell asleep for several minutes.

The first problem caused several headaches and much swearing, the second disappeared by itself after my third restart.

I was unable to get my wireless connection to work with the NetworkManager at all, even though it worked flawlessly on Hardy. After reading just about all threads about this issue on these forums, I finally managed to make it work, by removing NetworkManager and installing Wicd Manager instead.

Do I have the courage to upgrade to a future Ubuntu release? Certainly not when I have a working day ahead of me, where I am depending on my internet connection!

Now I am just happy that "It Just Works". Because it didn't before...

[10-10-20]

My upgrade is suffering with the Black Screen of Death...
Can boot with vesa driver loaded, but it's very limited.

Awaiting a solution...

[eidauk]

I ended up reinstalling Hardy due to two features that malfunctioned in Intrepid that worked flawlessly in Hardy. Namely:

• fglrx driver causes jerky video playback in full screen (I have the infamous ATI Xpress 200M)
• Hardware volume buttons set for repeating so sound was either completely on or completely off

This is on a Compaq R4000 laptop. I just didn't see any essential benefits with Intrepid to spend more time and effort to get the hardware working correctly.