Comment 49 for bug 232012

I tried an upgrade to 8.10, but this borked (got stuck) and so I decided to reformat the root (left the home partition as is) and do fresh install of ubuntu 8.10 and then later added the kubuntu-desktop meta package.

This was pretty flawless, after all the updates ubuntu offered the restricted driver automagically, and 3D seemed to worked fine (happy kids!). However if you select desktop effects, then the title bar vanishes from any dialog. Also in Kubuntu with its desktop effects turned on, it prevents any 3D applications from running (you just get a black screen) although I have read that the applications maybe running but verrrry slowly. Also wine dialogs / fonts are unreadable. All these appear to be Nvidia bugs related to the new driver EG https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/300476

Its a great shame that nothing is being done to resolve upgrade to Hardy problems though, especially as Hardy is LTS (Long Time [bug] Suffering?)