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Re: [LUG] Warning - Any Mandriva Users Out There!!! A Rant.

 

Ray Smith wrote:
>
> *From:* list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> *On Behalf Of *Vivi Griffin
> *Sent:* 02 May 2009 07:11
> *To:* list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [LUG] Warning - Any Mandriva Users Out There!!! A Rant.
>
>
>
> >From being a big Mandriva fan, I am now very disillusioned with them 
> and will be re-installing with Ubuntu or Kubuntu 9.04 which I used, 
> installed on a pen drive to rescue my data. I find it appalling that a 
> distro upgrade would be pushed through to users with what is obviously 
> such a major bug. I would have understood a few minor issues but not 
> something like this that made my laptop totally unusable.
>
> If you are a big mandriva fan why not stick with the previous version 
> if it does what you want.
>
> I’m sticking to intrepid for the same reason. On my laptop ati 
> graphics are no longer supported. The open driver works but I like to 
> play games.
>
> On my netbook the intel graphics support is shocking due to the way 
> xorg has changed.
>
> As intrepid works perfectly I’m just sticking with that.
>
> Ray
>
 From what I understand the Intel driver problems in Jaunty are due to a 
buggy driver which will be fixed and rolled out when it's ready. In the 
mean time it is possible to roll back to the older driver (details are 
here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4)

I weighed up the pros and cons of upgrading to Jaunty and I figured the 
advantages of upgrading to Jaunty and reverting to the older driver far 
outweighed the cons. Jaunty is MUCH quicker, I mean blindingly quicker 
on my notebook, boot time is about 30 seconds rather than about a minute 
which when you're dual booting with Vista can be handy (Vista takes an 
age to boot but I have some specific apps which it requires and I can't 
virtualise Vista as it's an OEM licence tied into the hardware, it 
simply won't Activate in Virtualbox and I aint paying for another licence!).

With regards to the ATI driver though, that's more ATI's fault rather 
than the developers of Ubuntu. ATI took the decision to stop supporting 
older cards which IMHO was a bad move. Sure yet they are releasing specs 
etc for the cards now but they could have at least waited for the open 
source drivers to at least catch up in terms of usability. From what I 
understand some cards just have very basic OpenGL support at the moment, 
and sure it'll get there but that doesn't really help those poor folks 
who are stuck with older cards which aren't as well supported.

Rob

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