Problems with Ubuntu 10.04 BETA1 stability

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Is this still true for the latest nightly?
Is it individual programs or the entire system that crashes for you?
Please note any error messages that you get.

It, when an action applying to the above terms, as well as changing screen brightness, crashes the whole system. Including the programs, desktop, panels, touchpad on/off btn, caplock, numlock, basically the whole computer.

Depending on what action, normally just when closing the laptop lid, and having it blank screen, it is so serious that after endless reboots, it crashes at logon screen, playing the startup sound 3 times.

Only way to fix that is either reboot, or, sometimes that happens permanently and requires full reinstall.

as for error messages, i do not get any. its a simple system failure caused by adjustments being made to the system's power settings.

Is this still an issue.

Please specify you system hardware (motherboard chip-set, and graphic card in particulate), or if it is a laptop the model number might be enough.

it still affects me completely. in ubuntu 10.10 Alp.1, too. After upgrading to the latest ubuntu maverick software, it still does. however, the driver (Ati FGLRX) that fixes it in 10.04 keeps me from changing brightness, and in 10.10 it cant be installed. but in the latest of ubuntu 10.10, its as it should, although if the laptop is unplugged, 10.10 thinks its unplugged. thinks its plugged in when i plug it in. but, if i unplug it while its running, it doesnt notice its unplugged.
 i cant keep u completely up-to-date because my hd spindle screwed (you guessed it right. its a seagate) and i have no portaable device for it to boot from, and im not sure where on the net to find a sata ahci.

but, since u asked, i can give specific hardware. its a

 HP G61-511WM

ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 356mb, with 1024 mb including shared system memory

3GB HP memory

Unknown board type with InsydeBIOS F.15
and ver F.3 factory installed

but is it possible for ubuntu to include a file converter for things like .inf, and re-rap it into UNIX code? i know the kernels and everthing is different, but theres still has to be a way.

What do you want to extract from the info files?
If you want to extract the inf files? The .inf files only contain formation on what files contains the actual driver. If you want this for installing Windows GPU drivers in a Linux it is pretty much uselss and in-piratical. It has been done for wify drivers, but translating the API's means a big hit to the preformance, some thing that you cand afford when it comes to the graphics system. Also reversengenering the windows API's would be an enormus time consuming task, ridlled with stability and a constant catching up with the latest versions. That time would be much better spend developing a popper driver from scratch.

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