[ltp] Feisty to Gutsy dist-upgrade

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:17:11AM +0000, Phil wrote:
> I'm keen to upgrade my Feisty installation to Gutsy, but nervous as a=20
> working environment is vital.
> I'm running a T60 with ATI Radeon Mobility X1400, and Intel Pro/Wireless=
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> 3945ABG wireless card.
> Can anyone who's performed this upgrade summarise any issues they've had,=
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> if any?

Ubuntu's release notes[1] say that the binary fglrx driver breaks
suspend/resume.

  [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710

> Feisty is running fine, it suspends/resumes (most of the time!), and all=
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> the special keys that I care about work (including brightness) and I don'=
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> believe it has suspend power consumption issues.
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> I also want to keep twin-head working. I'm currently using fglrx and=20
> although it took some experimentation it's now working fine with extended=
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> desktop over ldc and external monitor, and I can happily switch between=
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> single-head and dual-head without restarting X. I wouldn't want to lose=
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> this functionality.

I've also seen emails of people fighting with fglrx and dualhead on
Gutsy.  I didn't pay much attention, because I never used fglrx.

If you can use the open-source radeon driver with this card, everything
should work, including the switches between single-head and dual-head
without restarting X.  Only I don't know how well the open driver
supports the X1400.

Marius Gedminas
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99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again...
101 little bugs in the code....

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