issues ubuntu 9.04
after upgrading from 8.04->8.10->9.04 in less than a month i was stuck with a system that wasn't good enough. which as a linux lover was upsetting.
i have been a linux user for a decade and a ubuntu user for half of that time. i haven't seen such issues with upgrading since the old days.
current issues with 9.04 for me:
- Xorg version doesn't support older FGLRX driver
- USB problems
system specs:
- AMD Turion64 1.8gz Mobile
- 2 GB DDR PC2700
- ATI Radeon Xpress 200M - mobile
- HP Pavilion DV5000z - laptop
the new Xorg server doesn't support the previous versions of the fglrx drivers and you have to use the community driver ATI or Radeon. this would be great on 8.04/8.10, when i was running them previously i stopped using the proprietary fglrx driver and used the ATI with much better performance and a better desktop experience. though in 8.10 reinstall the ATI/Radeon drivers are working just as bad as when I had 9.04 running. this also bothers me because i shouldn't have such issues and should have the correct open source ATI driver like the last install. funny how things work.
ultimately to get this version of Ubuntu running at the moment you need to hack your system a little bit. on 9.04 i pretty much completely downgraded the Xorg server to the one from 8.10 which is a little hacky for my liking. but it allowed correct fglrx driver performance.
USB issues are still there. long delay on autodetect and mounting. often times not having access to my wireless trackball and complications with touchpad.
i am thinking maybe the wireless being on the usb_core system might be messing up the enumeration. not sure though.
conclusion i reinstalled 8.10 ... which i will describe some details of in a later post.
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October 04, 2009 8:16 pm
devnull on October 05, 2009 4:43 am
@UPDATE
the packages i needed to remove and downgrade to in 9.04 to have it work with fglrx are:
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