So who's up for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex?

Yeah, as I said, the problem is random.

 

anyone else hate the look of the firefox tabs? I think they are using the wrong design for the currently viewed tab vs a tab that is open and not being viewed. I always have to carefully examine the tab bar to find out which tab is actually open

 

Yeah, I found my self doing that before today. I'd prefer them to be as small as Safari's, and for them to have some sort of bigger distinction.
EMZ=P

 

I upgraded last night, it's a nice evolution in the Ubuntu family line.

 

You can't tell what page you're currently viewing?

 

Very true. I am of the same feeling. They need to mark the current tab you are in with something(ex: color, icon etc). It would be really helpful when view many tabs, as I often do. I did however figure out of to make my firefox fonts look a lot better though

 

hows that?

 

I'm very impressed by the KDE improvements at the time of Intrepid in comparison to the KDE 4.0 we had in the time of Hardy Remix release.

The KDE group is really doing an awesome work. The thing is now very stable and got several important refinements since last version. And looks even more beautiful than ever.

Btw, pidgin and firefox also work fine for me. Oh, and pidgin came with some nice unexpected improvements when i downloaded it today. Sound worked on it out of the box where it wouldnt work ever before (i didn't use to put much effort on it anyway).

jockey-kde was the only guy that seemed a bit bugged to me. I have already installed my driver via envy anyway.

To me, this is their most important release since 7.10. 8.04 seemed a bit saltless anyway.

 

Installed Microsoft True Type fonts. Once you have that installed, change the default font to Veranda 16 point for firefox. Still researching other possible improvements, but this one helped a lot.

 

I found two reasons why Pideon was crapping out on me. I mean, it would freeze just after starting to text messages. The short fix was to delete my ~/.purple folder. The reason it kept messing up in the first place seems to be that I was using plugins such as evolution sync and message logging. Once I disabled all plugins it was stable. Hope this helps.

 

My issues as of now

Suspend doesn't resume. Comes back to black screen. I've tried some of the nvidia related fixes, including blacklisting intel_agp and setting nvagp to 0. I still come back to lack screen and have to full reboot to get my computer workign again.

No sound. I've tried the fixes for my card. None work as of yet.

Maybe I'm dumb. I'm doing it wrong. This is depressing. Overall, I much prefer Ubuntu/Linux in general to windows. If I could fix this stuff, windows would be for games only. I just can't seem to do this...Just as every other time I've tried to switch to ubuntu, I'm about to give up. If I had a different wireless card/close by ethernet, my desktop would only have ubuntu. I pretty much soley used ubuntu on it for a long time, but I had to move it away from the router and it has a broadcom that pretty much refuses to work. It barely works in windows though, terrible signal.

 

Have you tried Hardy?

 

MY SOUND WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Now to get a solution for suspend.

 

What did you do, go to Hardy as suggested?

 

No way my brand new sound card would work better in hardy. It was a matter of settings.

I finally found a solution on launchpad, I hadn't checked it in a while. I just added " enable_msi=1" in the alsa options.

p.s. I have tried hardy. That's what's on my desktop. I actually prefer 7.04 to any version of ubuntu so far. Hardware support is getting better, but bloat is getting worse.

 

Finally installed it on my desktop, and a brand new clean 32b install on my new nb.

SEARCH the Ubuntu site (and Google) for the laptop hard drive killer bug. You WILL VERY MUCH want to do what they suggest, enable latopmode in acpi.conf, and you WILL also want to adjust the hdparm -B value when on battery passed from laptop-mode.conf as the default value was still cycling my hdd way too often for my liking...

 

Is there any summarized report of this bug? It seems very critical for the users.

 

This issue has been "fixed" Some people still have it, some don't. I'm not getting that high of a load cycle count.

 

You can find loads of information about this 'bug' and (temporary) fixes on the Ubuntu forum.
In this NBR thread you can find a post by me and more important, one by NBR member Jas.
In my post I describe a solution that I got from Hitachi support by using one of their HDD software tools.
Jas explains in detail in his post how he has used the Hitachi HDD software and the settings he applied. I use the same ones.
As the Hitachi software works both for Linux and WinOS (as it works on hardware-level), I can recommend doing the same if the HDD manufacturer of your drive offers a comparable software tool.
Cheers.