[Ubuntu-laptop-testing] Join Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Final Beta Laptop Testing

[chris hermansen]

Nicholas, thanks for the reply.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Nicholas Skaggs
<nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
> Chris, the first is a kernel bug.. And it's a regression from precise it
> seems. Has the kernel team seen the issue? They would ask you to run
> different kernels and perhaps an upstream or mainline kernel to diagnose
> where the issue lies.  If you can pinpoint when/where it was introduced,
> there's a good chance for fixing it.

I have to say I don't know if the kernel team has seen it or not -
beyond filing a new bug or (what I did, this time) adding a comment at
the end of the existing bug and adding the "raring" tag to say "it's
back", I don't know how to alert the kernel team.  How should I do
that?

My testing laptop - the Dell Inspiron 1501 that has this problem - is
right now used only for testing so I can do whatever I need to it to
try to track this down.

The last two comments on this bug 572521 - that of Dario Egea on
2012-10-28 saying the problem is gone in 12.04 64bit and then mine
saying it's back in Raring Beta 2 give us some idea of when it came
back.

I had 12.10 running on this machine for awhile and I don't remember
stripy lines, but my memory is not the most reliable thing!

>
> The wireless bug linked is interesting -- sounds like there is a workaround.
> Again if it's straightforward, I'm curious what the ramifications are for it
> wanting to use the wrong driver. Is your hardware reporting the wrong thing?
> Or is the driver reporting to work with your hardware when it doesn't?
> Sometimes it's the case of quirky hardware where fixing it for you would
> require breaking it for everyone else.. I'm not sure if that's the case
> here.

My experience with the wireless bug is that the newer drivers (for
instance the STA driver) are supposed to work with the 4311 chipset
but don't.  So I have ended up regressing to the b43 driver, ever
since this old Dell has run Ubuntu.

After I posted my "it's still a problem" comment in this bug, I
noticed another poster suggesting a patch for the problem, and since
there is a confirmed / fix released.  So I will try a fresh install in
a couple of days to see if this is repaired.
>
> Nicholas
>
> On 04/05/2013 07:32 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
>
> Nicholas, everyone;
>
> Before I can run through the tests, I have noticed two old problems, one
> that has "come back from the dead", one that stubbornly refuses to be fixed.
> These are:
>
> Bug #572521 and #732677
>
> I have noted at the tail end of each conversation that the problem is back
> (572521) or still present (732677) and added raring to the tags.
>
> Anything else I should do, or do differently?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Nicholas Skaggs
> <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Christopher, no it shouldn't cause any issues with windows assuming your
>> dual booting with grub. Is that correct? 13.04 is doing pretty well for
>> upgrades, but it is a beta and you will be testing for a reason, so :-)
>> We're here to help if you run into any issues, and are glad your interested!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>>
>> On 04/05/2013 05:07 PM, Christopher Wetzel wrote:
>>
>> I would love to help test the latest version. I am running a dual windows
>> and ubuntu 12.10 boot up. When I upgrade to 13.04 it should not mess with
>> the windows boot up?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Sergio Zanchetta <primes2h at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno 05/apr/2013 20:39, "Sergio Meneses"
>>> <sergioandresmeneses at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>> >
>>> > Perfect! I'll test as soon as I can, I think will be helpful if we can
>>> > meet after release and talk about  the laptop-testing project.
>>>
>>> Hi Sergio.
>>>
>>> Sure! I think it's a great idea to have a meeting about that after raring
>>> release. :-)
>>>
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