[ubuntu-us-mi] installing Lucid?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck installing Lucid?

Mixed results so far.  I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop with an
Nvidia GeForce2 Go chipset.  Until recently it wouldn't boot unless
pci=noacpi was set in the kernel boot line in Grub.  That has now been
fixed.  The touchpad wouldn't function without some xorg.conf hacks
(bug #479839) and even then only intermittently but with recent
updates it doesn't work at all.  Attempting to login with GDM crashes
X (bug #553508) so I have to kill GDM and login from a tty and then
startx.  I have an Enterasys CSIBD-AA-128 802.11b PCMCIA card that
doesn't work (Bug #498336).  I have a Belkin F5D8013 802.11n with a
RaLink RT2860 chip that seems to function but it wouldn't connect over
WPA in Karmic and I don't have a secure wireless network handy to test
with Lucid.  I recently found the i8kutils package for monitoring the
sensors and fans but the fan RPMs are wrong (bug #200449).  Recently
the keyboard stopped working and I have to use a USB keyboard (either
bug #555169 or #406690).  Encrypted drives fail to be mounted by
pam_mount at login (bug #433051).  Theres more of course.