On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 13:19 -0800, John Meissen wrote: > Benjamin Kerensa said: > > 11.10 has had some weird issues with xscreensaver especially in Ubuntu but > > I'm not sure about Xubuntu. I know there has been some changes to the > > upgrade > > tool. > > There are some pretty serious issues with laptops and external monitors. > I refuse to stray off of the LTS releases, but my daughter recently > ugraded from 10.10 to 11.04 and hasn't been able to get an external > monitor to work reliably since. > > For instance... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/858046 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/882143 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/882134 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783636 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1863987 > > A Google search seems to indicate a number of problems, from Unity vs > "Classic" to the nvidia driver, some of which claim to be fixed, others > still open/unresolved. > > I'll know more when she's home for xmas in a couple of weeks, but for > now I'm recommending she go back to and stay on 10.04 unless there's a > compelling reason for upgrading.
11.04 worked well on both my laptop and my desktop, but on the laptop 11.10 won't turn the backlight back on -- there's no way I'm installing it on my work machine! 11 also lost the ability to switch keyboard maps in the login screen. Since I type in Dvorak and I've got people in the household who use QWERTY, this was a nice feature -- I can use a QWERTY keyboard, but I need to look at my fingers to do so, and it really slows me down. I need to reinstall 11.04 on the laptop, then sit tight for 12.04, or whatever the next LTS release is. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
