tamias
May 13th, 2008, 10:10 AM
Hello all,
I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop from Gutsy to Hardy via the Release Candidate when it was released. Since then I've hit problem after problem -- it is by far the least successful upgrade I've ever performed in three years of using Ubuntu.
I've managed to solve a number of the showstoppers (unreadable text in Firefox, Accessibility tools stealing all keypresses, display manager crashing) in the last month on my own. Unfortunately, despite being a relatively experienced and confident user, there is too much still to fix: DPMS issues on suspend/resume, gnome-panel crashing on startup, fullscreen video using 100% CPU, etc...
To make things worse, the latest round of updates has actually borked things even more. Now the HAL reports a "can't start" error on boot-up, so I've lost power management and networking via network-manager altogether, and have to revert to manually executing dhclient via a cabled connection to get online.
I'm just about ready to give up on Hardy now and revert to Gutsy. My questions are two-fold:
1). How long should I wait until Hardy is at a stage where I could try it again? Or is it considered 'finished' now and there won't be any more significant updates?
2). Is there a definitive guide to installing all the packages, 3rd party software, and configuration currently installed on my laptop, onto a fresh install of Gutsy? My laptop represents three years of extensive personalisation and customisation, and I'm loathe to just "do a Windows" and reinstall everything from scratch.
Many thanks in advance,
Mark
I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop from Gutsy to Hardy via the Release Candidate when it was released. Since then I've hit problem after problem -- it is by far the least successful upgrade I've ever performed in three years of using Ubuntu.
I've managed to solve a number of the showstoppers (unreadable text in Firefox, Accessibility tools stealing all keypresses, display manager crashing) in the last month on my own. Unfortunately, despite being a relatively experienced and confident user, there is too much still to fix: DPMS issues on suspend/resume, gnome-panel crashing on startup, fullscreen video using 100% CPU, etc...
To make things worse, the latest round of updates has actually borked things even more. Now the HAL reports a "can't start" error on boot-up, so I've lost power management and networking via network-manager altogether, and have to revert to manually executing dhclient via a cabled connection to get online.
I'm just about ready to give up on Hardy now and revert to Gutsy. My questions are two-fold:
1). How long should I wait until Hardy is at a stage where I could try it again? Or is it considered 'finished' now and there won't be any more significant updates?
2). Is there a definitive guide to installing all the packages, 3rd party software, and configuration currently installed on my laptop, onto a fresh install of Gutsy? My laptop represents three years of extensive personalisation and customisation, and I'm loathe to just "do a Windows" and reinstall everything from scratch.
Many thanks in advance,
Mark