Yay! Finally a post!
I was really looking forward to the release of Feisty, and leaving Xubuntu for good old Ubuntu. Having a decent PC meant that most of my previous Xubuntu installs eventually ended up just like Ubuntu so I decided to install Ubuntu this time round.
The installation of Feisty was painless but not worry free.
Everything was smooth sailing until the appearance of the new partitioner. I made my first mistake when I re-assigned a partition from /media/sda1 to /. I didn’t notice that the partitioner automatically resized the partition to just over it’s current usage.
Strangely for other, more full partitions, this wasn’t a problem.
The last strange part was when the installer moved to unpacking and installing the base install; the entire window was minimised to the smallest size, without the option to resize it. Not panicking I left it alone for around 20mins, where it changed into a dialog informing me it had successfully installed and wished to reboot my PC.
The next unpleasantry (though not of Ubuntu’s making) was upon rebooting where I was greeted with a Frankenstein looking desktop as some, not all of my previous configurations had translated from Xubuntu to Ubuntu. The background was as I left it, but the panels were floating in the middle of the screen and all jumbled up. Deciding it was time for a real fresh start I moved my Home folder to another partition and started from scratch.
Onto the good points, and there were some that really had me smiling.
Firstly the Restricted Drivers Manager was a great help. Even though I’ve done it many times, installing the NVIDIA drivers always seems to cause me pain. The Restricted Devices Manager did it all for me, and the Desktop Effects were soon enabled. A definite plus.
Network Manager was also looking up as it had detected my two wired ethernet ports as well as my D-Link wireless card, and even sussed out the local Wireless Access points.
Sadly my card uses the RT61 chipset, which Network Manager seems to only work with when using no key or WEP. I am hopeful that future releases can work better with this card.
But by far and away the best thing with Feisty, is it can get my sound card, a SBLive 7.1 using the CA0106 driver to play sound in 5.1 (which I got working back in Breezy) AND allow multiple applications to use the sound card at once, which I could do with Edgy but only with stereo sound. I only found out as I had some tunes playing and accidentally started a video in Firefox and to my astonishment, heard sound.
Sadly I end with one final and fairly major problem. Feisty seems to freeze on me, unexpectedly and seemingly randomly. Once it froze while logging on, once after opening the Trash, once while …, once while … I can’t work it out.
I’m having random lock-ups as well. I’ve been running Linux for over two years. I’ve never had a hard lock up–ever. That is, until I installed Fiesty. I’ve since had four! I hope someone figures this one out.
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Lockups here aswell. They must have fucked something up really bad because this never-ever happened to me with Ubuntu, and I use it since Breezy came out… :/
Totally. Although I’m almost 100% sure it was a problem with NVIDIA drivers.
I’ve given up and returned to Edgy.
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me with my CWP-854 (RT61) Wireless card I just got today.
I tried to get it to work but it does not show up in my Network Manager in Xubuntu no matter what I try… It is all showing up in the promt but not on the desktop.
Any help on getting this working would save my ass as my girlfriend was told I would have thisworking within 1day….
Thanks, Lee
Actually, I’ve been having hard lock ups as well. I’ve done some crawling around the bug tracker and it looks like it is being caused by the serialmonkey Ralink drivers. I am also using an RT61 chipset and if I switch to using ndiswrapper I stop getting the hard locks. As soon as I go back to the rt61 driver it starts randomly hard locking again. Very annoying but not the fault of Ubuntu, according the the ubuntu bug tracker it has more to do with the serialmonkey driver not maturing at a decent speed.