Guru dell'Eccelso Picco » upgrade http://blog.gurudelleccelsopicco.org Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:44:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p – All is fine! http://blog.gurudelleccelsopicco.org/2010/03/ubuntu-karmic-9-10-on-hp-elitebook-8530p-all-is-fine/ http://blog.gurudelleccelsopicco.org/2010/03/ubuntu-karmic-9-10-on-hp-elitebook-8530p-all-is-fine/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:40:39 +0000 Luca Maranzano http://blog.gurudelleccelsopicco.org/?p=132 After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade. My first concern was about the ATI driver, which gave me some trouble with 9.04. Anyway after a good backup, I started the upgrade, and in almost 2 hours I was [...]]]> After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade.
My first concern was about the ATI driver, which gave me some trouble with 9.04.
Anyway after a good backup, I started the upgrade, and in almost 2 hours I was up and running with 9.10, with a lot of improvements!
The upgrade installed automagically the fglrx driver version 2:8.660, my previous version (built from source) was 2:8.620, however, after the first reboot I started in recovery mode to issue the magic command “aticonfig –acpi-services=off” because I feel that this is still crucial to make the driver work.
After this safety measure, I rebooted and really appreciated the boot speed! Upstart is making a great job really!
So far, I’m very impressed by this release, my major benefits are the following:

  • Ultra fast boot and shutdown
  • Great performance of the ATI driver. The black areas that sometimes were appearing for example scrolling a Firefox full screen window have disappeared
  • Upgrading Skype to 2.1.0.81 solved the problem about the editing of my profile and avatar display
  • Performance are really increased, for example opening PDF with Evince
  • Not yet tested printing feature
  • Suspend to ram works fine
  • VMware Workstation works fine

((enjoy))

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