The Path to Zen

Ubuntu 8.04 Upgrade Goes Well, Not Without Issues

Upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 last week. The Upgrade went quite smooth, especially considering I have been running a mixed kde 4/kde 3 setup, with the kde 4 pulled directly from the kde.org repo.

A few issues I ran into so far, most of which I suspect have more or less to do with the new 2.6.24 kernel:

1. The sound system in kde 4 appeared to have stopped working. It simply refuses to recognize the onboard sound card. Sound works fine in kde 3, or in kde 4 but through other packages – for instance, amarok and the flash video player can play sound without any problems.
2. The Logitech Marble Mouse would arbitrarily stop responding out of blue, and won’t come back without rebooting. Good thing I have two mouses plugged in (the other Logitech with higher precision for games .
3. Firefox 3 Beta 5 crashed the X server once. I’ll have to wait and see if this is recurring. So far Firefox has been quite stable otherwise.