Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Issues
I’m still getting used to using Ubuntu 7.10 beta on my Macbook.
Unresolved Bugs
- The bottom task-switcher bar sometimes disappears.
- Firefox doesn’t quit cleanly - it always crashes.
- No big deal, this just means that I need to deal with a “do you want to restore” dialog every time Firefox starts up.
- Macbook Audio can’t be muted.
- This appears to be a long-standing Ubuntu / Macbook bug, due to the way Macbook audio muting is implemented. Someone needs to write a driver, and unfortunately audio driver writers don’t seem to care much about Macbook laptops.
Resolved Bugs
- Support for a one-button trackpad
- Choose System:Administration:Synaptic
- Use synaptic to install the mouseemu package to allow F11,F12 buttons to emulate middle and right mouse clicks.
- Phantom button clicks while moving the mouse:
- Choose System:Preferences:Mouse:Touchpad
- Un-check “Tap to Click”.
- Choose Close.
- Problems connecting to Windows Vista Printers and Windows Vista Shares:
- See my post on this: Linux in a Windows Centric Home Network
- Enable Cleartype-like nice looking anti-aliased fonts:
- Choose System:Preferences:Appearence:Fonts
- Choose “Subpixel Smoothing”.
- Enable Java:
- Choose System:Administration:Synaptic
- Install sun-java6-jdk
- Enable Flash:
- Choose System:Administration:Synaptic,
- install ubuntu-restricted-extras.
- This installs a bunch of useful software that should be in the default Ubuntu install, but isn’t due to political differences between the software authors and the Ubuntu packagers.