Karmic

[Dotan Cohen]

> I got an automated email regarding Bug 378383 (intel video) asking me to try
> it. I was wondering if it was usable. I do have a CD burned, I was going to
> try booting into that first. I realize that there is always a risk with
> alpha releases borking your system. I was also thinking of doing some
> repartitioning and putting it off on it's own.
>

You should definitely not replace your working system with Karmic to
test the bug. Rather, install in a spare partition and take care not
to format your working partitions.

Of course, this assumes that you have a spare partition to test in. I
leave one on most machines that I configure (5 gigs) but most people
do not. So while the developer was right in asking you to check in the
latest version (there has been a lot of work on that driver recently,
though I do not know how much of it trickled down to Karmic yet), you
might not have any practical way of doing so.


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Dotan Cohen

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