Taking advantage of the free easter days I decided that between sleeping and cooking to also try the new Hardy Heron:

  • not wanting to take any risks as in the painful Gutsy update I did a clean install on a different partition

  • I tried the data migration option (gaim, evolution, firefox) but it only imported partial configuration and no data. I reverted to the old method

  • all hardware seems to work at a glance

  • I sadly discovered Automatix has been discontinued so I just installed the medibuntu source for acroread and skype

  • installed various such as emacs, gqview, msttcorefonts, etc.

  • firefox 3 did not worked with my site so I reverted back to firefox 2

apt-get install firefox-2rm /usr/bin/firefoxln -s /usr/bin/firefox-2 /usr/bin/firefox
  • quite happy for the moment, more to come…
  • hibernate worked even after enabling nvidia driver
  • installed the flash dev plugin and java plugin manually
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfreecd /etc/alternativesrm firefox-flashpluginln -s ${...}/flash_player_9_linux_dev/plugin/debugger/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so firefox-flashplugincd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ln -s $JAVA_HOME/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Comments:

Jorge -

Are your experiencing problems with sound? I have installed Hardy on my D820 but can’t manage to make totem (or any other video software) output any sound.

Thanks


Len -

No problems here, it’s true that I don’t use totem but I’m using mpg123 and skype and both work ok. Have you checked your volume? Here is my lsmod | grep snd

root@black:/home/len# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel 344728 3
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 56996 17 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd