Jaunty beta upgrade

[wirechief]

Sounds like you have performance warnings and not necessarily bugs
but it would not hurt to file bugs as they will probably get back to you
as closed or of not important if they are not important. I have filed several
bugs over the past few years and some provided the clues the developer
needed to fix issues while others had been already fixed and one was not
repeatable. I think it is good practice and you will be rewarded just by knowing
that you contributed to its developement. Just having made the mailing list you
have gotten attention, good on you...

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I upgraded my Thinkpad X31 over the weekend from 8.10 to the
> beta of 9.04. It mostly went pretty smoothly, but I hit a couple of
> snags. The installer did not put the new kernel in GRUB's menu.lst
> file - I just picked the default option and this was to leave menu.lst
> alone. The result was an error on bootup that CPU scaling was not
> supported on my processor.
>
> I found the new kernel, manually amended the file, checked it worked,
> which it did just fine, and removed the old kernel using Synaptic -
> which once again newrote menu.lst and removed my hand-added entries.
> It's a very good job I checked before I rebooted. Happily I have a
> docking station for this machine with a DVD drive in, so I could have
> fixed this by hand, but otherwise, I would have been stranded. I don't
> /think/ the machine can boot from USB - I do not own any PC that can,
> AFAIK.
>
> Also, 9.04 seems to enable Compiz by default, which is agonizingly
> slow on my ATI Rage Mobility chipset. The machine was unable to keep
> up with my 2-finger typing and was unpleasant to use. The transparent
> notifications from Pidgin and on using my special IBM keys to change
> volume or screen brightness looked great in Compiz. Now I have
> disabled it, performance is sluggish but usable, but the notifications
> appear in an ugly black box overlaid on the top-right corner of the
> screen.
>
> What app produces these notifications, does anyone know? I'd like to
> investigate its settings and see if it can do its own alpha-blending,
> and if not, just turn it off...
>
> Anyone reckon these things are worth filing as bugs?
>
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