safe to upgrade to meerkat alpha 3?

[NoOp]

On 08/28/2010 01:19 AM, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:38:51 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 
>>On 08/27/2010 03:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> 
>>>   after a couple glasses of wine, i'm willing to live dangerously and
>>> upgrade my fully-updated lynx system to maverick meerkat alpha 3, as
>>> discussed here:
>>> 
>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha3
>>> 
>>>   any reason i shouldn't?
>>
>>Yes. If you currently use an nvidia-96 driver it won't work with xorg
>>1.9, you'll need to use the nouveau driver & will no longer have compiz 3D.
>>
>>Also, be sure that you bypass 2.6.35-16 (BUG: scheduling while atomic:)
>>& go straight to 2.6.35-19. Of course you can then wait out:
>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/623819
>>
> 
> And if you want to live a little more dangerously with an nvidia card,
> add xorg-edgers-ppa for glorious gallium powered compiz 3D with nouveau.

Do you have an nvidia-96 card, or some other version?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.18-driver.html
GeForce 4 MX series:
MX 440, MX 440 (AGP 8X), MX 420 (AGP 8X), MX 420, MX 440-SE, MX
Integrated GPU, MX 460, MX 440SE (AGP 8X), MX 4000

Quadro NVS series:
NVS 285, NVS 55/280 PCI, NVS 210, NVS 420, NVS 450, NVS 50, NVS 295, NVS
280, NVS 440, NVS 290

Quadro 4 Go series:
500 GoGL, 550 XGL, 700 GoGL

Quadro 2 Go series:
MXR/EX/Go

GeForce 4 Ti series:
Ti 4800, Ti 4800 SE, Ti 4400, Ti 4200 (AGP 8X), Ti 4200, Ti 4600

GeForce 2 series:
Ti 200, GeForce3, Ti 500

Quadro 2 MXR series:
Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go