Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by jsz0 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:51PM
(#1744157)
Poor sleep/wake stability was the single biggest reason I gave up on Linux. I was running Ubuntu on my HP nc8430 and had to rush out the door so I closed the lid and didn't wait to make sure it went to sleep properly. I tossed my backpack into my car and when I came back a few hours later I found out the machine never went to sleep. It got so hot that the enclosure actually melted and warped. Probably lucky it didn't catch on fire in there. Amazingly the machine still worked but the physical damage to the enclosure prevents the lid from closing properly and it won't sit flat on a desk anymore.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by wwortiz on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:34PM
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Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by niels_olson on Thursday September 30, 2010 @05:58PM
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Not to take away from either of you, but I had a very similar problem with Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 9300. I would open my insulated laptop backpack, at least once every few months, to find a computer too hot to touch and the smell of baking foamcore. I have not had that problem with Ubuntu, and it has been running on that machine since 7.04.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by jsz0 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:28PM
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It was compounded by a hot day and being inside a backpack. The problem I was having at the time was a hard lockup of the system on sleep maybe 30-40% of the time due to the ATI graphics driver. My best guess is once the machine hard locked ACPI was unavailable to auto-shutdown the machine once the CPU passed its threshold so it ran until the battery died instead.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by bad_user on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:22PM
(#1744051)
For what is worth, suspend/resume works on my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 (a Dell Inspiron 1525) and it was completely broken in Debian testing.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by auxbuss on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:51PM
(#1744155)
For what is worth, suspend/resume works on my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 (Sony Vaio F-series) and it is completely broken in Ubuntu 10.10.
Touché.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by metamemetics on Thursday September 30, 2010 @05:54PM
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For what it's worth, the battery lasts half as long in Ubuntu than Windows (Dell Studio XPS 16). Also the fan is always on moderately loud even if I am only browsing the web or the lid is closed, and it heats up under the trackpad more than Windows to a degree that is annoying.
I know OSS needs to be more attentive to aesthetics, but let's not forget that "Ew, I just can't STAND these fonts" is a different kind of unusable from "I tried six obscure workarounds listed in a bug report, but none worked, so I installed a different OS." Using a laptop exclusively as one's primary computer is extremely common these days. If showstopper bugs are tolerated on laptops, the perception of Linux viability for non-tinkerers is going to regress back to five or ten years ago when it was common to encounter bugs like this in a desktop install.