Well this post undermines the very existence of this blog. I have been following ubuntu jaunty from the alpha releases. In between in switched from alpha to beta something happened, it broke the intel graphics. Users are getting frequent X freezes and only way out is rebooting the system using the MAGIC sysreq keys R S E I U B.
I have been using this in my office laptop in search for a perfect KDE 4.2 distro and it was a frustration because it crashed when I was checking mails or working on something. Now we have the final ubuntu release, but where does this bug stand. Unfortunately its still there and funny thing is that no one knows why this is happening, finally some xorg.conf settings have been proposed which increases the virtual size in xorg and still its not clear why this fixes the issue. All distos using intel driver > 2.5 seems to be affected especially intel 965 chipset users, like me.
Well I could live with this fix, but the annoying issues in jaunty is far from over. Most disappointment is the kde itself. The applications running is having repaint issues, some application like amarok, kmail, quassel are like having holes in them with areas not getting painted showing the background. Some blame on qt others on kde and some in intel.
And finally the most annoying issue I faced in jaunty is the detection of usb devices. Some times it takes 30 mins for my usb to device to get detected. In the mean time I can see on dmesg message
unable to enumerate USB device on port *
getting printed for the time till the usb is detected.
There are bugs for all these and no response from anyone. Well I just cannot spend my entire day trying to ponder why this is not working.
Every time I log in to ubuntu its thinking on what might not work today and the first thing a user wants is a stable environment to use.
After doing all help to make ubuntu beautiful and seeing that still its not working, then there is something wrong with the entire process. That says all and I am back to Windows XP.
Using XP after using kubuntu jaunty is like using windows 98 after using Windows Vista/XP. At least everything works as intended.
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