10 Things to consider before upgrading/installing Jaunty
Posted by kranny on May 31st, 2009;This post is viewed 1,583 times
- Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope has the new version of X.org server(1.6).So it doesnt support the older ATI graphics card.If you like to have 3D support (compiz/games) ,sorry folks,the open source graphics drivers for ATI do not have 3D support
- Nvidia drivers version 173 and 177 are broken.Though nvidia people are with their newer versions (180,185),they only work with the newer gpu’s
- Firefox flickering has always been a problem in jaunty when you scroll the web pages
- Jaunty ships with Python 2.6 as default. This has a lot of problems. There are many packages which still run on Python 2.5 only. For example, Google App Engine SDK runs of 2.5 only. There is no support for Python 2.6 yet. It breaks like hell.
- Though ive updated the mplayer to SVN-r29330-4.3.3 ,i cant play videos smoothly in Smplayer.
- Audio crackles all of a sudden.Users of certain Intel8×0 and Intel HDA controllers are experiencing crackling and popping while playing audio files
- when mesa is upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4,intel965 users had a X freeze after several hours of use, triggered by application usage especially noticeable with compiz enabled.
- Subpixel/Lcd mode with VRGB/VBGR makes fonts on qt4 applications unreadable. Really, really unreadable.
- Apparmor fights with cups-pdf.This one’s been around since the Hardy days. You’d think it would be fixed by now.Specifically, print jobs to the PDF printer will just vanish because apparmor does not allow cupsd to save them in ~/PDF.
- There is a sound delay between audio and video while using Skype.Though there are a few workarounds,they doesnt work for all..
Note: The above mentioned are not exactly bugs and have workarounds,but isn’t Ubuntu supposed to be for human beings in general, not only übergeeks who can use some fantastic apt-tweak spell
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June 6th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I have been quite dissapointed with the Jaunty release as well, as I have had numerous problems with all kinds of stuff ranging from video to audio to printing, and even if I have been able to find solutions and workaround for most of the problems, there are still some that are basically unsolved, like the video thing (sticky, disrupted video, from a problem from the Intel support in the new software, as it appears…) and I am still wishing I was back in the “good old” Intrepid Ibex days where everything just worked.
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July 5th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
None of the cups-pdf workarounds have worked for me. Does that make it a bug?
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July 19th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Using jaunty and experience none of the above.
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
this is a pretty old post buddy..Everything is working fine now
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