pickarooney
March 24th, 2010, 09:30 AM
First of all, I'm happy with Jaunty. It's very stable and everything works (except my webcam on my desktop) so I've no major issue.
However, I've tried to upgrade to Karmic three times on the desktop and twice on the laptop and each time has been an unmitigated disaster.
- tv tuner: simply does not work on karmic, even after two days fo fiddling. In Jaunty it works out of the box
- sound: constantly cuts out
- flash playback: terrible, sound cuts out and/or video stops working
- video: two days wasted on the laptop trying to get a working display with nvidia drivers, to no avail. Five mimnutes after reinstalling Jaunty I had it working.
No big deal, I didn't see anything new in Karmic in the short time I used it so I'm not missing out on much.
However, I'm now very reluctant to install any releases, from Lucid on, as I have no wish to waste days trying to get basic things to function. Lucid might be a perfect release, full of useful new additions and everything might work straight off the bat, (it might even allow a webcam and a tv card on the same machine!) but I have no way of knowing beforehand and no desire to smoke my system by testing.
I was thinking of using a LiveCD, but the problem there is that the nvidia drivers are not available so I can't test either the display or the tv card. If I install them, I need to reboot and then tvtime is lost - big-time Catch-22.
I tried a virtual machine, but the situation is similar - graphics drivers don't seem to work properly on the VM.
I could, I suppose, carve off a partition on my HD for a second xubuntu installatsion and run Lucid in test mode, but it seems like an awful lot of hassle and a waste of space.
Ideally, I'd like some sort of rollback system whereby I could install Lucid, test for a couple of days and if it's as bad as Karmic then just hit a button and go back to Jaunty with a minimum of hassle. This really isn't feasible without a reformat though, and that's another few hours that I don't have wasted.
Has anyone come up with a decent solution for testing a release without compromising a working system?
However, I've tried to upgrade to Karmic three times on the desktop and twice on the laptop and each time has been an unmitigated disaster.
- tv tuner: simply does not work on karmic, even after two days fo fiddling. In Jaunty it works out of the box
- sound: constantly cuts out
- flash playback: terrible, sound cuts out and/or video stops working
- video: two days wasted on the laptop trying to get a working display with nvidia drivers, to no avail. Five mimnutes after reinstalling Jaunty I had it working.
No big deal, I didn't see anything new in Karmic in the short time I used it so I'm not missing out on much.
However, I'm now very reluctant to install any releases, from Lucid on, as I have no wish to waste days trying to get basic things to function. Lucid might be a perfect release, full of useful new additions and everything might work straight off the bat, (it might even allow a webcam and a tv card on the same machine!) but I have no way of knowing beforehand and no desire to smoke my system by testing.
I was thinking of using a LiveCD, but the problem there is that the nvidia drivers are not available so I can't test either the display or the tv card. If I install them, I need to reboot and then tvtime is lost - big-time Catch-22.
I tried a virtual machine, but the situation is similar - graphics drivers don't seem to work properly on the VM.
I could, I suppose, carve off a partition on my HD for a second xubuntu installatsion and run Lucid in test mode, but it seems like an awful lot of hassle and a waste of space.
Ideally, I'd like some sort of rollback system whereby I could install Lucid, test for a couple of days and if it's as bad as Karmic then just hit a button and go back to Jaunty with a minimum of hassle. This really isn't feasible without a reformat though, and that's another few hours that I don't have wasted.
Has anyone come up with a decent solution for testing a release without compromising a working system?