Comment 565 for bug 993187

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Joris V. <email address hidden> wrote:
> As far as I can judge, this is a kernel thing messing up with GPU.
> Something crept into the later kernels, i.e. above 3.0, shipped with
> Oneiric 11.10. Oneiric is rock-solid, even with propriety nVidia driver.
> Every distro I tried with a higher kernel gave problems (but Ubuntu is
> the harshest - crashing where only a hard reset works). Every distro
> with a kernel higher than 3.0 makes nVidia's driver unuseable on my
> system.

As I mentioned several times: kernel 3.5.0-18 for me does extremely
well. Did you try that, Joris?

I had a few other kernel issues also but filed them to kernel.org
where I got response pretty fast. Maybe Canonical is not so much
involved into the kernel development (any more) and just take what is
coming from the kernel folks.

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That said, I have still the impression that Ubuntu is the distro that
has least problems with devices (my last try of Fedora had still
issues with my wireless and mobile internet sticks).
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Regards, Martin.