I'm not having much fun with it on my netbook... I'm now on an Acer Aspire One ZG5, and it doesn't seem particularly faster, and worse, I can't keep my wireless connection live. Seems to be related to the ath5k driver, but I have yet to find a fix. I can't get madwifi to compile... Arrgh.
I think the problem for me may be that I did an upgrade rather than a reinstall. I had lots of 'stuff' that was extra to the original install, including bridge networking to a virtualbox (yes, on a netbook -- seems silly now). I'm now to the point that I think I need to back up my data and do a clean install. I might even take the opportunity to rid my boot menu of the Windows XP option. Miss you guys. Hope you have a good meeting next week! Marti. On 4 May 2010 15:42, Simon O'Riordan <voluntar...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > I'm going to do a clean install. It's my netbook, so not much to lose. > Tomorrow. And you can change back to right hand by changing theme. > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 19:39 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > ** Simon O'Riordan <voluntar...@btopenworld.com> [2010-05-04 02:55]: > > > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > > > 1)Takes longer to boot up > > > > 2)Boot up sequence looks like a chinese-made plastic toy. Crap. > > > > 3)Uninstalls opencv, cannot reinstall. My vision demos no longer > work. > > > > 4)Breaks video. Cheese doesn't work. > > > > 5)Laptop sound issues not improved. > > > > 6)Rhythmbox opens on 'UbuntuOne' page. > > > > 7)Left-handed controls installed by default. > > > > 8)Menus difficult to use.(Split buttons on right). > > > > Why why why oh why? What is 10.04 for? To keep Vista company? To join > > > > the Microsoft World Order by being lousy? > > > > No thanks. > > > > When they come for my desktop I'll say "Nyet!" > > > > > > > Oh, and it uninstalls Flash. It doesn't seem to be able to reinstall > it. > > > So you have to put in one of those marvellous amateur-night jobs where > > > you have to press a 'play' button and then the Flash animation goes > > > round in ever-decreasing circles until it catches itself up and > > > disappears up its own arse. > > > > > > What are they putting in the Canonical canteen tea these days? > > ** end quote [Simon O'Riordan] > > > > On my HP Mini 2133 netbook all went well: > > > > 1) On mine it is notably quicker. > > 2) Given 1) above I've not really seen much of it! I did notice the word > Ubuntu > > with some dots underneath, but miss it on most boots!! > > 3) Can't comment, not used it. > > 4) Cheese is working nicely on my machine. > > 5) Not sure as I have any, at one point I thought it vanished once in a > while, > > but not sure it does now. > > 6) Not a big user on my netbook, not overly worried. > > 7) I like the new icons, giving the position a chance, not the end of the > world > > for me, in spite of 20 years or so of using them on the right! > > 8) Lost me here, which menus. > > > > Personally I'm quite liking it. It also now works with my 3 dongle > without > > patching :) > > > > As for flash, I noted that I didn't have flash, but wasn't 100% sure I > had it > > installed. After a quick look around I installed the package > adobe-flashplugin > > and everything works smoothly now with Adobe Flash 10. > > > > Clearly you didn't have a smooth update, for my mileage it would be worth > a bit > > of investigation and bug reporting. > > > > -- > > Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 > > ====================================================================== > > Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: > > Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU > > > > > > -- > Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-05-11 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-05-11 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
