[ILUG] edgy about edgy?

[murf]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, John Allen wrote:

> Jason Corcoran wrote:
>> I have been using Ubuntu 5.1 here in work for the last while, it is a vm 
>> image running under XP. 
>> Every thing has been running fine, and I know if it ain't broke.., but I 
>> wanted to have a look at edgy. 
>> I have heard it can be a bit flaky with different hardware. From peoples 
>> experience is this with exotic hardware or bog  standard stuff?
>>
>> 
> Working all the time with Edgy, no problems. I even have Feisty on my home 
> desktop, and laptop, and mostly its OK too.

Hi,

Some of the lads in work here have upgraded to etch, and are having 
serious cursor problems on their second displays. The hardware is lenovo 
T42/T60's with ATI cards, and they were all running dual head with the 
display spread across both monitors.

After the upgrade, it seems there was a problem with the ATI drivers 
(binary, boo! hiss!) that causes the cursor to change to a large square 
(yes, a large square same colour as the background) if the two displays 
are not exactly the same resolution.

Most irritating! Other than that, there's been no problems. :)

cheers,
Murf.