[ubuntu-uk] more issues with 8.10

Michael G Fletcher michael at ilovemylinux.com
Tue Nov 4 21:49:28 GMT 2008


On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Ken Robson <ken at robsonfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> In reply to multiple posts...
>
> 1. I use the dvd drive allot, I view/burn many dvd's and if it is going
> to re-insert it on eject then not on.
> 2. I still have another 2 machines running with 8.04 (xbuntu) and 8.10
> (with some issues) but this is my main pc and the issues I have had
> since upgrading on Thursday/Friday mean that I need a more stable OS. So
> far today I have tried (via live cd's) another 7 distro's and at the
> moment I have installed a x86 version of Mint (another 'buntu off shoot)
> , one of the main reasons for dropping x64 version was when ever I
> wanted to install something not in the repo's I HAD to compile it and
> usually there were issues, at least with the x86 version I have a chance
> to find a .deb file, or the compilation will succeed. (I have no
> problems with compiling the s/w but when there is cast issues I don't
> have the patience to fix them anymore. When I started coding 30 years
> ago this wasn't a problem ;-) but I haven't really done any programming
> in the past 8 years.)
> As a developer I believe that the beta testing is for getting rid of
> issues like this, One of the reasons I left M$ OS's behind was the
> issues in Vi$ta, after spending 10 years supporting M$ os's I had enough
> when I would switch on the pc and not have any networking... I then
> switched to Ubuntu and have mostly been pleased with it since then.
> 3. the screen saver issue, I don't know what is causing it, I have
> disabled the SS and so far it is behaving, the video card on that pc is
> the intel 915 onboard (so far my only pc running 8.10)
>
> I may come back in a month or so and see if the issues have been fixed.
> As to reading the release notes, who these days RTFM's?
>
> K
>
>

Ken, I'm sorry if this sounds rude (it really isn't), but do you have
the same problem if you push the physical eject button on the ROM??

--Michael
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