back to 12.10...

[Jörg von Frantzius]

Good idea, thanks Scott!


2013/5/6 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>

> "Jörg von Frantzius" <jfrantzius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Sinclair,
> >
> >I'm not on 13.04 yet but would like to, and I'm a bit worried now about
> >the
> >problems with Broadcom wireless drivers. Do you have the
> >bcmwl-kernel-source package installed? Could you tell a bit what the
> >symptoms were?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Jörg
> >
> >
> >2013/5/3 O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com>
> >
> >> After a disaster upgrade to 13.04 thought I share my experience and
> >also
> >> ask a question.
> >>
> >> For starters: the upgrade as such went smooth. It was when I rebooted
> >the
> >> headaches started.. with plasma crashing on login, endless error
> >messages,
> >> desktop looking weird and freezes.
> >>
> >> I eventually found out that in kernel 3.6 or 7 and up to at least 2.8
> >the
> >> vgaswitcheroo function is buggered. This is the one that assist us
> >unlucky
> >> "hybrid graphics" owners to kill off one gpu or switch between them.
> >In my
> >> case I either kill my AMD or watch my fan eating battery alive. AMD
> >> proprietaty drivers stopped working after 11.10 and yes I have tried
> >> Catalyst Legacy.
> >>
> >> So OK thought perhaps I could live with that after a looong first
> >login I
> >> have to log out and then on second login things look kind of normal.
> >>
> >> Then I discover that the Brodacomm wireless driver has gone buggered
> >since
> >> upgrade and I can not downgrade. Any new wifi connection refuses to
> >work.
> >>
> >> That is where I gave up and reverted to my trusty Remastersys created
> >> 12.10 KDE 4.10.0 custom install usb.
> >>
> >> My question is now: I do not want to upgrade to 4.10.2 via backports
> >PPA
> >> as it has issues in KDEPIM but want to only go to 4.10.1 . Does
> >anyone know
> >> of way of doing that?
> >>
> >> For me with AMD/Intel hybrid graphics and Broadcomm wireless 13.04 is
> >a
> >> no-go, will have to wait for 13.10 and see what happens.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Sinclair
> >>
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> Broadcom works fine for me.  Try it out with a love CD if you wamt to
> resolve your doubts.
>
> Scott K
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