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Yesterday I did the jaunty upgrade on my eeepc 900. The icon umts network card is no longer recogized by the network manager.  I suppose it has to do with my manual configuration I did on Ubuntu 8.04 when I had to configure it by hand. My solution is quite simple: I will do a clean reinstall, because the system has gotten slow anyway with the time. -> Save the Home dir and I am ready to reinstall.

There are news to the last-mentioned display bug with the radeon driver.  Alex Deucher has begun to solve the problem and has already commited a first solution. Keep yourself up to date by subscribing the official bug in the freedesktop bugtracker or keep reading this blog

Yeah, today Canonical is releasing the new version of my favourite linux distribution Ubuntu. I already upgraded my computer at home to the release candidate and everything is working fine.  I like the new notification area which gives applications a standard interface to inform the user about things going on on his computer. I didn’t try the ext4-filesystem yet, but the benchmarks proof that its a little faster than ext3.

On my computer at work I did the upgrade to the RC aswell. Because AMD (formerly ATI) stopped supporting the fglrx driver for the Radeon x1300 I had to switch to the opensource driver “radeon” or “radeonhd”. These drivers corrupt my mouse cursor in a really annoying way, on some random vertical areas of the screen the cursor shows like a square.  Unfortunately I didnt find a solution for this yet and theres already a bug (#291053) opened in the launchpad.  I’ll keep you up to date if I find a solution.