Kubuntu 8.04 updates

[Bruce Bales]

On 11/21/2010 12:36 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Sunday 21,November,2010 07:50 AM, Clay Weber wrote:
>    
>> On Saturday, November 20, 2010 06:31:29 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:
>>      
>>> I run Kubuntu 10.04 on my production systems but I also have Kubuntu 8.04
>>> on an old desktop that I run occasionally.
>>>
>>> I have not been allowing 8.04 updates for fear that they might disturb my
>>> KDE 3.5.10, which is a major reason for keeping 8.04.  Am I all wet --
>>> would it be safe to allow the updates?
>>>
>>> 	-Jerry
>>>        
>> You will be safe *updating*, as there will not be any KDE version changes from
>> 3.5.10. What you are missing out on are any security bugfixes, and I believe
>> newer Firefox versions.
>>
>> As long as  you don't *upgrade* you should be fine.
>>
>> Clay
>>
>>      
> Just to expend on it, I had similar situation and I had no problem
> updating by
>
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>
> Hope this helps _ Goh Lip
>
>    
I wish I had known some of this a month ago.  I was offered the 
opportunity to upgrade 8.04 and I did it.  Since then nothing has been 
right.

dmesg fills up with "serial8250 too much work for irq17"  and it 
switches to "low graphics mode," which is totally unusable.

I decided it was time to try 10.04.  The live cd for 10.04 fills the 
screen with "too much work for irq17"
and it goes to low graphics mode then shuts down.

I went ahead and installed it -- dmesg fills with the same old message.  
(And kmail has been upgraded into oblivion.)

I installed ubuntu (with gnome, which I dislike).  Same story.

A google search for "too much work for irq17" turns up many others who 
have the same problem but no solutions.  Many of the machines are Dell 
2400s, like mine.

Sure would like to get back to kubuntu.  (And maybe even the 2008 
version of kmail.)
bruce