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[Daniel Grosser <dan48p@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess it's about time to reply here.  here's my week's experience
with ubuntu 9.10.

cons:

battery life is LOW.  I used the laptop for about 3 hours at school
today and within a half hour of use at home i had "20 minutes" left.
in ubuntu 9.04 i was getting around 6.5 hours.  enough life to last me
a week most of the time.

karmic constantly drops wireless connections and now i can't get it to
find my home network a whole 3 feet away from the router.  i get
irritated when i have to boot into win7 to check my email.

the whole machine is slower in general.  in fact, even on my desktops
i get better performance out of a p4 on 9.04 than an amd 4000+ (5
years newer) on 9.10.

graphics are slower for sure, i manage to get the machine to stutter
changing between desktops (i'm not playing crysis here).  something
that never happened before.

i can't figure out how to work the new application manager to save my life.

suspend/resume still doesn't work


pros:

external displays are immediately available upon connection.


summary:

I did upgrade this machine from 9.04 to 9.10 via synaptic.  i hope
that the problems i am having will be cured with a clean install but
i'm skeptical.  i suppose i can always boot into windows and run 9.04
in vmware if i need to do anything in linux with network access.

The bottom line is that i would recommend ubuntu 9.04 all day long to
anyone that needs a reliable system.  I don't know much about the
whole programming thing (i'm ok with "hello world") but i know how to
use a computer.  I feel it would have been better to iron out the bugs
than to release 9.10 on time.  I don't have time to hassle with the OS
which is why i switched to linux in the first place.

I don't mean to sound too negative here because i really do like the
new version of ubuntu when it works, but vista wasn't that bad when it
worked either.



if any of you guys know of fixable bugs with the wireless let me know.
 i can work with everything else, but that is the deal breaker for me.



dan



On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jim <jimbojones443@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gustavo,
> Off topic...but I'm really curious.
>
> Do you not have Intel wireless card? I thought the ath modules where for
> wired ethernet. I compiled the compat-wireless snapshot from 10-28-09
> and presto! Wireless works better than ever. Better results for me than
> with the backports package from the repos.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 17:23 -0200, Gustavo Azambuja wrote:
>> I have 4810TZ with fresh install of Karmic, cheese 2.28.1, and webcam
>> work fine. without problems or hacks.
>>
>>
>> Not work:
>>  mousepad disable button (but i not use this...)
>>  integrate mic (im waiting for this work...)
>>  also, not always, but 2 times in a week, my wifi stop working, and I
>> have to do:
>>   sudo rmmod ath9k; sudo modprobe ath9k;
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 17:11, Nick Glynn <exosyst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>         I finally upgraded (fresh install) to Karmic on my 4810T and
>>         was saddened to find that the mousepad disable button still
>>         failed, brightness controls still did nothing and the physical
>>         eject button 'disconnects' the drive in dmesg - I can accept
>>         *all* of that as it's still better than Vista but one thing
>>         that's miffed my partner is the fact that the Webcam is no
>>         longer picked up in cheese.
>>
>>         Can anyone else verify this or know of a fix? I've also posted
>>         to the 4810T thread on the forums but no answers yet.
>>
>>         Cheers!
>>         Nick
>>
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