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[Barry Drake <b.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not an especially good day!  I went round to see my friend because he
wanted to show off his new Laptop.  Very nice Acer on special offer from
Argos a couple of weeks ago.  I'm impressed (except for Windows 7).  He
did let me run a live CD (10.04) on it, and it is VERY compatible.

On the downside, I asked if I could plug his Epson Stylus SX218 combined
printer/scanner into my 10.04 Dell Netbook.  It found the printer,
installed a driver, and the test simply spewed blank sheets of paper
out.  Just what he suspected - Ubuntu has problems!

Back home, I looked at the bug page, and this bug is there, but fixed.
I guess the drivers on 10.04 never got updated - it didn't offer to
download anything as I hadn't got an internet connection at the time.

Also, I couldn't get the scanner to appear.  I seem to think I had to do
a similar fix by editing something once before - permissions I think.
But it would have been nice if the scanner had 'just worked'.  I didn't
have time to do anything fancy; maybe another time.

Back home, I put 11.04 testing (64 bit) onto a second hard drive on my
PC.  Awful problems with Unity, which has finally died the death after
making me boot into recovery mode, and telling me that the various
components of Unity had shut down.  It left me with the Gnome desktop.
The problem was still there after doing a full update ....  I can't see
this as a reported bug, so I guess something just didn't install
correctly.

However, on the plus side, when I tried my video camcorder, it 'just
worked' with no tweaks.  I'm pleased about that.  On the downside, now
11.04 has moved on to Pitivi, there are no video capture facilities
available, so I had to get Kino to test it.  Just now, I don't know of
any other apps that offer video capture from a firewire port.

So, using a video-camcorder is something I can write up.  I'd like to
know if there's any chance of Kino being brought back first though.  I
know PiTiVi is a nicer frontend, but without video-capture it is very
limited.

A further annoyance to me was that the 11.04 installation wrecked my
existing grub and I had to get into the old OS using the new grub (on
the second drive), take out the second drive (fortunately SATA) then
re-install grub.  It then did it again during the updates.  I'd have
liked it to ask me.  Whom should I moan to?

Regards,		Barry Drake
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