Busted Gutsy upgrade on Thinkpad

[Justin Gruenberg]

I can't help you with the specific issues you have, but I want to put
it out there that upgrading my T40 worked flawlessly.

On 10/20/07, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
> This is on a Lenovo T60p.
>
> Here's a list of initial problems after the upgrade.  I have not
> tested everything yet, of course, but wanted a single list for other
> Thinkpad T60p users.
>
> Can anyone give me some suggestions where to start looking on any of
> these?
>
>
> Much slower
> -----------
>
> Logging-in is much slower.  I disabled xgl (and do not have any
> desktop effects enabled).
>
>     .config/xserver-xgl/disable
>
> That helped a bit but still noticeably slower than Feisty.
>
> Wireless is no longer detected.
> -------------------------------
>
> If I boot with my old 2.6.20-16-generic  kernel I see in dmesg:
>
>     [   18.552000] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
>
> plus all the wlan-specific loading.
>
> With Gutsy I see nothing related to wireless.  Do I need to
> specifically load the ath_pci module now?  Tried modprobe and it
> didn't seem to load the wireless extensions.
>
> Ironic, because the main reason I was upgrading to Gutsy was to solve
> wireless problems (frequent disconnects and "Dazed and Confused"
> panics).
>
> I've had such good luck with wireless in the past I'm not that
> familiar with where to debug.
>
>
> Sleep no long works
> -------------------
>
> Well, that sucks.  The screen dims, and the little moon icon flashes
> and then it just hangs.  Worked perfectly under Feisty.
>
>
>
> Logout
> ------
>
> Minor problem, but before the login screen appears again it now
> displays the startup screen for a few seconds (showing the init.d
> scripts output).
>
>
> Mutt
> ----
>
> This is weird.  Mutt still works, but the mailbox list ( c+?+<tab> )
> shows all zeros for the sizes of the mailboxes.