Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted Apr 30, 2009 11:12 UTC (Thu) by rmano (guest, #49886)
Parent article: Ubuntu 9.04 released

A would-be nice releases, if only it didn't ship with a nasty your-machine-freezes bug for a great deal of Intel graphic chipset users... sometime the fixed date release cycle has "funny" downturns. Fortunately, Ubuntu *did* mention it on the release notes, so no major harm has been done.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339091

Looking forward to jump to jaunty...

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted May 3, 2009 4:27 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

for most of the cases that I have worked with helping people through, the easy fix seems to be to remove the /etc/X11/x.org config file and let X autodetect everything.

I've helped a half dozen people through this problem and in every case there was some custom tweaking or other modules getting loaded that caused the problem.

all but one of them were fixed by the trivial remove the x.org file fix, that last one was somehow trying to load other video drivers that were no longer needed, uninstalling those drivers fixed the problem

Ubuntu 9.04 released

Posted May 3, 2009 21:12 UTC (Sun) by rmano (guest, #49886) [Link]

No, in this case things are quite different. The bug is there (look at the bug entry), and unfortunately it seems that it is deemed too risky to fix --- giving that a workaround exists, namely, disabling DRI and 3D acceleration.
I am quite apalled by the decision. I will have to stay with the ibex...