I am getting fed up with Ubuntu releases

[David]

Look - do you guys know what you are doing or not. I have been a user since approximately version 6. Up until 9.04 all is well, easy to use, set up etc. Starting with 9.10 it has been a mess. Difficult setup, hours killed getting the computer to work right, still not quite right after all is said and done. Now to version 10. On one of my other computers I upgraded 9.1 to 10. the upgrade did not work well for video, sound was always garbled and only after much work did I get video to work right. The problem seems to be the ATI video driver.

When I open Synaptic Package Manager it reports that there are 3 broken packages on my system and to use "Broken" filter. I checked your web site but could not find any clear guidance on what "Broken" filter is so I tried Fix Broken Packages under Edit In Synaptic. Absolutely nothing happened, no message, no indication that the command worked or any other clue.. I then searched for videos drivers in Synaptic and found the fglrx file and tried to load it. I forget now but when I first upgraded, and tried to solve the video problem was told (forget what told me) that this is what I needed to load. I tried to load the file and received this error message

An error occurred
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%
3a8.723.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb: subprocess
new pre-installation script return error exit status 1

After more attempts over several days I got a really dumb idea. I decided to create a dual boot system with one boot being the upgrade ver. 10 and the other being created using a cd burned with the ver. 10 from your web site. I loaded the cd version and all seemed well at first. The cd ver. was notably faster (something I assumed might happen) and I now thought I could hopefully get video with good audio on the cd. ver. But guess what, I now have a computer with a dual boot (both ver. 10) but no internet access from either boot. The boot that use to access the internet fine except for buggy video and garbled sound won't access the internet and neither will the other boot.

I am at a loss at this point as to what to do. I tried the icon in the upper right that says something like autoeth and all seemed well except it said it had never connect. Never had this type problem before so not sure what to do. Hate to start all over with a reload that just erases everything and end up at the same point. Any ideas?

Guys it was this kind of never ending problems that made me give up Windows and become a Ubuntu and iMac (for the wife) house. At first you were great and easy to use, but lately it has not been worth the effort.

In case you are wondering, I am reasonably computer literate, use the command line, learned PC's with the first IBM dual floppy machines, still think the HP41cv (not technically a computer) is (still have and use mine) one of the best products ever produced and enjoy working with computers for fun but not when I am forced to by poor upgrades.

so give me some hope please. thanks David

[Javier Moreno (elpasmo)]

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