Comments on: What’s Been Bugging you in Ubuntu 8.04?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:46:54 +0000

Network Manager, if you disable wireless, no option to enable it.

Power management flaky, usually must shut down my laptop vs allowing it to hibernate.

Wasn’t too thrilled t find out no “upgrade” option for 8.10, i don’t want to nuke my whole system to install newer version.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:36:30 +0000

I was using 7.10 for about a year and i made clean install of 8.04 few days ago becouse I was reformating partitions on my hard drive.. Generaly, 8.04 works, but personaly, 7.10 was a lot more stable. First, firefox 3 is totaly useless, when I start it, it needs about a minute to load, and even then it’s constantly swaping something, so the led of the HD is constantly on. Also, it crashes every minut.. totaly unusable.
Next, there is problem with the sound, only front speakers of my 5.1 system are working, and even they work very weak, so I must put the volume knob on them to the 2/3 of max (all software volume knobs are on 100%) just to have normal laudness.. It probably has to do something with 8.04 using PULSE instead of ALSA. Also, the transmission torrent program is iritating, it can’t even continue download properly, everytime I restart system it losses up to several % of downloaded material.. Also i found the next bug: try running top program in terminal as root (“sudo top”) and close terminal window in which it is running.. CPU usage jumps to 100% until the “top” process isnn’t killed. This wasn’t happening in 7.10.

I realy like Ubuntu and 7.10 worked perfectly, but this few problems on 8.04 really iritate me!

By: tunaaja

tunaaja — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:15:29 +0000

Gigabit network transfers only under 9MB/s
Previously i got about 50MB/s with ubuntu 7.10
And i can´t change samba password different than sudo password
I dont understand why this release have bugs in things that have worked so long in every distro

If i would use ubuntu as desktop i am pretty sure that other things come up too.

By: paddy1

paddy1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:49:12 +0000

Why is it so damn hard to install printers? I am trying to install a Dell 710 printer, installed all the drivers, installed redhat, etc. The printer clicks to do a test page, and then stops.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:04:28 +0000

Sometimes my wireless aplet doesn’t startup to connect to the internet when I turn the computer on. Other times it starts just fine. Dell Inspiron E1705 with Broadcom wireless.

By: Worried-Mary

Worried-Mary — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:28:42 +0000

Thank you Tom, I’ll try to do it…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:30:09 +0000

google video, youtube have a very bad sound…maybe pulse

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:10:12 +0000

Worried-Mary:
You don’t need to uninstall Firefox 3, install the firefox-2 package and you can have both versions at once.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/firefox-2

By: Worried-Mary

Worried-Mary — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:35:33 +0000

I have just upgraded to firefox 3.0 on the ubuntu 8.4 beta and now it doesn’t work, so I can’t even surf the net. Well, I tried to uninstall the 3.0 version so I have the 2.0 one wich worked fine, and I can’t do it. The synaptic package manager notifies me that the file can’t be found in the server.

Does anybody have the same problem. Could anybody help me how to get the last version of firefox so I can have a web browser working correctly?

By: Happy_Dan

Happy_Dan — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:57:40 +0000

I switched from Windows and installed Version 7.x and it took me several hours to learn how to get my wireless card running.

I learned about NDISWRAPPER and blacklisting and finally got it running.

Upgraded to 8.x and now wireless is broken again. I figure I only need to load the Broadcom firmware again but the gui for Restricted Drivers is gone.

When I go to Hardware Drivers the Broadcom firmware does not show up.

More for me to learn, SIGH.
How the heck to install the Boradcom firmware that I already have?