[ubuntu-in] Interested in hearing about ser experiences about Karmic Koala (9.10)

[Saikiran Madugula]

Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi
> 
> am keen to know what user feedback there if for Karmic Koala , from
> users on the list who may have upgraded / reinstalled.
> 
> regards
> ram
> 
OK here goes my experience installing 9.10 on HP Compaq 6735b. Installation was
smooth.

- On first reboot I get the login screen and after you enter your creds a white
screen appears and thats it. Workaround: Logged in with failsafe GNOME and
logged out and the next login was fine.

- network manager is gone I do not see it on the panel.

- Kernel hangs when I try to enable broadcom proprietary drivers so probably I
can not use wireless on my laptop. (people still use broadcom isn't it ?).
Probably will open a bug for it.

- empathy and thunderbird automatically imported by pidgin accounts (fantastic).

- there are lots of stuff in dmesg about spurious reponses from hda-intel. But
sound works direct out of the box (which is improvement from 8.10).

- Multiscreen set up was delightful no more fiddling with Xorg.conf.

Thats my experience with first 10 mins of Karmic.