upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04
I finally upgraded Ubuntu on my IBM T43 laptop. I was waiting for 9.04 because I heard lots of problems about the 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade process but then I found out I had to upgrade to 8.10 before I could get to 9.04 - so it goes.
The upgrade went smoother than my previous one though.
Sound:
sound stopped working but I was expecting this because PulseAudio caused this in the previous upgrade, luckily I found this tutorial on keeping the PulseAudio beast at bay which worked like a charm. Sadly, I no longer have on screen volume indicators when I change the volume using the extra keyboard keys but apparently this is a known issue and its a very minor annoyance.
Graphics:
All my Compiz settings seem to have been reset but that should only take a minute to re-configure. Also my text rendering settings were reset and everything looked too sharp and pixelated until I re-activated sub-pixel smoothing. On the plus side, I’m getting all the fancy effects without the proprietary ATI driver warning (I think they open-sourced their driver some time ago).
Networking:
Wireless didn’t work at first because apparently madwifi is a restricted driver now that I had to activate manually. This took me a minute to figure out since there was not auto-notification of this.
Firefox:
Firefox went from 3.0.8 to 3.0.10 and all my sessions and extensions seemed to survive perfectly except Tabkit which now won’t do its awesome hierarchical tab display or event the multi-row tab display. This is by far the most annoying issue since I’ve become addicted to hierarchical tabs. I also had to re-install Flash player and I couldn’t get the auto-prompted installer to work so I had to download the debian package direct from Adobe and run it.
Hibernation & Sleeping are finally working again.
