Jaunty beta upgrade

[J. Limon]

Liam Proven 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?
>
>   
The notifications you are describing are part of the new libnotify look.

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