…about Ubuntu
/sarcasm on
I just looooove the upgrade functionality!
/sarcasm off
*heh*
Besides the “breaking” of various configuration files that happens almost routinely whenever an upDATE occurs (though less and less in recent months), that’s NOTHING compared to an upGRADE from 8.04 to 8.10.
Killed my nVidia graphics drivers. Dead, dead, dead. Not only were the drivers for my nVidia GeForce 6100 gone, but the config file for my monitor had been consigned to the bit bucket as well. No listing for it in 8.10, where 8.04 (lately updated, granted) had a config file for my monitor. Try 800X600 resolution on a monitor with a native 1680X1050 resolution. *yech*
Soooo. in HUGE MODE, nav’ed to Terminal and used apt-get to REINSTALL the lame-o drivers for nVidia that Ub untu reluctantly makes available. Used them to get a sensible display resolution set. THEN I could actually get to the Synaptics Package Manager to easily reinstall EnvyNG (which downloads and installs much better drivers than Canonical does).
OK, a few hoops to jump through. Notaproblem, but would be for “Aunt Tilly” you know? (Of course, “Aunt Tilly” would probably not attempt upgrading from one version of the OS to another *heh*)
Still, not as bad as most version upgrades I’ve done on Windows computers, but still irksome. A “Favorite Thing”? Notsomuch.
I’ve yet to find an OS upgrade that I’ve liked when I ran it. I still prefer XP to ME or 98, but didn’t particularly enjoy the upgrade experience.
At least you were able to find drivers for your video card. I’ve got some hardware that just plain won’t be supported after XP becomes “unavailable.”
Well, of course there’s more…
I now have the semi-mysterious “enable IOMMU” error slowing down my bootup. Somehow, in upgrading to 8.10 from 8.04 my system now is looking for an AGP aperture on my PCIe system, and I’m “losing” 64MB of memory thus made inaccessible.
Now 64MB out of the *mumble-google* GBs of memory I now have installed on this machine is almost trivial, but the #$%^# thing stops booting for 10 seconds while the message is displayed. Annoyance. Apprently I need to edit a kernel config line in my grub bootloader to eliminate the error message (doesn’t eliminate the error, just the message).
*sheesh* Seems the kernel–which didn’ have this problem before–would be built to recognize when it’s a non-AGP system and simply not attempt to use the AGP aperture, but no.
Oh, well. Maybe I need to buy more GBs of memory to make the loss of 64MB seem even more trivial, eh? *heh*