Henri Cook

I’ve just upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty. In the past updates have often prompted a system reinstall to get my relatively unsupported nvidia graphics and Creative X-Fi working again.

At least this time no reinstall was necessary, my install is still plagued by several problems that Jaunty didn’t spot automatically (and in fact reset from my intrepid settings):

Nvidia Chipset On-Board Gigabit ethernet (MCP55)

I still have to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf

options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0

Without this I had no internet connection after the ‘big reboot’. I would assume this is the forcedeth driver guys fault, so shame on you.

Nvidia Graphics Drivers – Unbroken, well done!

X-Fi drivers still unsupported

I had to recompile the XFi GPL2 driver and reinstall it for the new kernel.

Encrypted Root Partition fails

Although my encrypted root partition appeared to mount it failed when trying to mount what was presumably swap. I’m still exploring this problem but found one can skip past the busybox error (ALERT: could not find /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXX) by using ctrl+alt+sysrq+letters in order(RSE).

Overall not bad, it’s a really nice looking release!