Comment 106 for bug 496093
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| bornagainpenguin (bornagainpenguin) wrote | #106 |
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The kernel linked above did nothing for me. I was so disgusted I rolled back to my Hardy image and avoided doing any Linux related stuff for a bit... Possibly the reason I did not get any benefit from the kernel is because I am on an eeepc 901, and not one of the 1000 series? Adding acpi_osi=Linux doesn't seem to do anything either.
There seems to be something really broken in the way Ubuntu runs on these netbooks, or in the more recent versions of the Linux kernel, because Adam McDaniel's version of the kernel for Hardy just worked. Ever since Hardy though there has been problem after problem... Intrepid has some weird sound issues and some strange tick with the mouse. Jaunty had those infamous Intel video issues in xorg. Karmic had the hard lock issue with its WiFi which not only was a known issue way back in July and Canonical insisted on releasing despite countless reports that this was a serious bug!
Of course the developers promised a fix would be released as soon as possible, that it simply wasn't possible to fix things at this late a date, that fixing this bug would hold up their release by a week so it couldn't happen. Remember this was a bug reported in July, people became frantic about as the October release date approached and wasn't fixed...until February?!? netbooks were a chance for Linux and Ubuntu in particular to shine, to show what Linux could do and more importantly to show what Linux could do that the other guys couldn't. Instead Ubuntu is showing people that they're better off using Genuine Microsoft Windows instead of the crappy knock-off...or getting an iPad, considering the new look these days...
Also why is it that when something is consistently broke and a user gets understandably annoyed at the persistence of brokenness everyone else feels outraged the bug reporter didn't genuflect and prostrate themselves seven times and give a literary hand job with gratuitous thanks and tokens of appreciation? If this were something the other guys had that was constantly screwing up people would be screaming it should have been fixed last week, but since its Linux the developers get a pass? What the heck?
--bornagainpenguin