Tjarda’s Blog

Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04

Last week the new Ubuntu arrived (Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04). I thought about upgrading in the evening of a multi-day course, but learned from my previous upgrade from Windows. Of course, everything went well, it appeared. The new spash/login looks nice, and the ext4 boots fast like lightning. The repositories still provide the tools I need, so it appeared all fine.

But…

Two things (actually, three). The first is the dual screens… My laptop needs the proprietary ATI drivers, and aticonfig –install was run successfully. If I start with my second screen connected, the second screen hosts the application panels. This is quite a pain when I disconnect the screen, then I run without those panels Apart from that the order of applets is molested when I reboot to get the things right again. My current workaround is to connect only after logging into the system. At work my monitor still does not connect right (my laptop screen goes black, and/or 1one of the processor core’s shoots into 100% activity of some kind)

The second is Evolution. It appears the OWA 2007 MAPI integration is still not in the application. I hoped/expected it would be shipped with the 9.04 release of Ubuntu. So, still no Evolution for me…

The third is that Ubuntu just terminated in some form or kernel panic when I moved my mouse to the “publish” button. A hard kill using the 5 sec powerbutton did the trick, and caused the loss of half this post. Hhhmmm…

Apart from the above, I am a happy user of Jaunty for the last 45 minutes.