Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" Alpha4 and the Intel video drivers...

[Ryan Rix]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Jim March<1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a laptop with the mediocre Intel 965/X3100 chipset.  In Ubuntu
> Jaunty it ran like a turd until major tweaks were applied, and the
> results weren't 100% stable.  Jaunty came out right as the Intel video
> support was in flux and Jaunty basically caught about half of what was
> needed between the kernel, xorg, Intel driver, Mesa and Compiz.
>
> Karmic has the whole package.  I've been running it for five days now,
> ever since alpha4 came out, and it's more solid (and FASTER) than I
> ever got out of Jaunty.  I did a full re-install with the alternate
> installer (as I use whole disk encryption) and I went with Ext4 - it's
> working great.
>
> On a lark I loaded the 64bit Adobe Flash "alpha" and it's rock solid
> too - best flash Linux experience I've ever had, period, end of
> discussion.
>
> I think Karmic is going to be a really sweet Ubuntu flavor when it
> ships and the improvements in Intel video support are so amazingly
> vast I'd say anybody with at least moderate technical chops able to
> cope with minor pre-release glitches should switch NOW.  I'm told the
> fixes also apply perfectly to the Intel 4500 chipset found on the
> newest el cheapo laptops.
>
> WARNING: this applies to all Intel video drivers except the GMA500
> chipset.  That thing is a major turd and will remain so until the
> Ubuntu distro post-Karmic at a minimum.  The most common GMA500
> machine is the Dell "mini 10" I think it's called, and for some reason
> that thing is an excellent Hackintosh candidate.  While I'm not
> normally a proponent of running Apple OSX on non-Apple hardware (as
> Apple is actively trying to stomp your install with updates!), the
> difference in support for the GMA500 between Linux generally and OSX
> is severe enough I'd consider it, at least until Intel helps get the
> driver situation under control.  (The issue is, Intel recently bought
> the GMA500 tech from another company that was very
> Linux-hostile...Intel is getting it sorted out but it's just not done
> yet.  That company did do some OSX drivers for Apple...)

Fedora never had these problems :)
*ducks*

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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
OnBoard-NG