Hmmm, yeah,, sounds familiar to me..

but, have you checked the ubuntu forums?.  maybe If the hardw is too new, there´s still not a driver for it.. : (

Also the graphic card Issues sounds familiar..

for me the solution to this issues was buying a used thinkpad (quite cheap) that I know is 100% linux friendly..  : - /    The intel gma it´s not gorgeous but at least, I can code there and check anywhere, like in the last trash-rescued computer that I made recently and everything works out of the box!!  (this sollution came for free, just some hours of elektrowrk )

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=238962&l=51c062f778&id=1000009...

so, I wish you good luck w the printer problm..

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I love linux and ubuntu but the driver support is a bit of an issue. I recently upgraded my mother's computer to 10.04 and now her Dell V505 all-in-one printer doesn't work. I got no (helpful) response from emailing Dell.

Secondly on a pd related problem, I am still running 8.04 because the proprietary ATI driver (no longer maintained) will only run on the old version of xorg and the open source driver doesn't have 3D support for Gem...

James

Quoth servando barreiro, on 22/09/10 12:06:

HI there..

I just want to "share" my experiences with Os´s..

I started in the nineties with a windows machine, I tried 95, 98, millenium, nt, xp....

It hanged really frequently  (20 times in a day w cad software..) so I assumed that as a normal function state from the machine..

At some point I tried  beOS and I found it great but I couldn´t do anything w it..

years later, I discovered that computers with the fruit thing  and I was really amazed, not just because of the stabilty  (but still one or two hangs per day with os 9.2),  also because I could do audio in real-time with them..  (well, coming from that windows nightmare, even a gameboy was fascinating..)

Then I got one.. and until the day, I´ve been using all the Os´s and also tried almost all the hardware that was/is in the market.

My experience with linux (about 4 years ago, ethic/curiosity  ) started very slow, but definitely in an ascendent curve of satisfaction & admiration..

Nowadays to code and to travel, I use a small thinkpad with ubuntu 10 and the experience is just fantastic..   It´s actually so good that I´m starting to hate all the mac shits..   Because when you know where linux cames from and who works on it,  you can understand that sometimes you have to put energy  on your side to look for a driver or whatever  (Not the case at all w ubu 10).

What I can´t understand....  Is that this big companies (micr/appl)  with hundred or "thousands" of good programmers working for them, are still doing crap...   (seems that they are focusing energies in making money & trying to protect his soft/hard  instead of making good code...)

yesterday I formatted my mac and I installed the last system (10.6 ).  There´s a known bug on it  that not just doesn´t connect to internet, it also keeps sending packets to the router until the router stops working,,,, (???).

I had to reset the router from the linux and download one by one the system updates for the mac.  This bug is known since 10.6.0,  I already have the 10.6.4  and the bug it´s still not solved completely.,.. (???????)

This just shows that It doesn´t matter how many hundreds of related posts you do in the official apple forums & related..  apple just don´t give a shit about the problems of the users....  (specially if your hardware it´s not brand new...).

The ubuntu forums are far more clear and helpful than that,,

About windows, I will not complain anymore... (not neccesary),  but I still "understand" people that uses it, because there´s people that doesn´t care about computers (even when they are working w them..)

****[I would like to add that I also understand users that tried linux but due to hardware issues, they remain in whatever system they were. Time is valuable and not everybody can/want to buy new compatible hardware.. ]****

what I do, when I´m teaching a workshop Is to carry one or two usb sticks with a live distro (pure dyne / openartist ) and invite the people to try a "truly" operative system..

many of my friends, they have switched to Linux (at least partially..) and they are happy w it.. (that makes me happy too..).

If the trajectories of the operative systems evolutions  follow as they are already, It wouldn´t sound strange to me that in some years, the amount of linux users (pure or mixed) will increase massively.

To finish, I would just like to thank to all the linux developers / contributors  for his hard work to make this incredibly operative system.