[Tfug] First thoughts on Ubuntu Karmic 64bit alpha4

[Tyler Nienhouse]

Karmic is definitely running nice so far. The HDA audio handling is perfect
thanks to the new version of ALSA! My laptop has an Intel GM965/GL960
graphics card and I can't control the screen brightness. In Jaunty I can use
an xrandr command, but I can't any more. I'm thinking this is because of the
new dynamic display method. Could anyone help me with this one?
--
Tyler


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 23:14, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Karmic is going to be a VERY sweet flavor of Ubuntu.  Intel video
> problems with my i965/"X3100" chipset are completely and totally
> solved.  Intel HDA audio handling is also improved, with more controls
> and more volume boost for my laptop speakers.
>
> The new hard disk checker is GREAT as I unfortunately learned.  I had
> everything backed up to a pair of 160gig HDs, I completely
> re-formatted my internal drive with Ext4, and as I was reloading
> everything I managed to DROP one of the drives while running!
> Fortunately it was very late in the restore cycle, what was damaged
> wasn't critical thank the deity of your choice and I was able to get
> what remained off by unplugging it, re-plugging, hand-copying specific
> directories and skipping over what wouldn't copy.  As this was going
> on, it was giving me "read error alerts" of various sorts, and if I
> wanted to would throw me into an automatic disk checker that among
> other things monitors the "smart stuff" on the disks themselves.
>
> I did have to hand-install the 64bit flash player as the repos wanted
> to install the 32bit flavor and nspluginwrapper which was a convulsive
> mess.  But overall, this sucker has a LOT of promise and feels fast as
> hell.
>
> Jim
>
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