10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[zongo saiba]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 17:07 -0300, lcn.mustard wrote:
> On 10-05-2010 16:45, Tom H wrote: 
> > 2010/5/10 Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com>:
> >   
> > > I finally give up on 10.04, it's not worth the hassle of trying to get
> > > my video output fixed. When last I wrote I was happily working away in
> > > the wonderful new 10.04 world (not an upgrade, a clean install), when
> > > after an upgrade Saturday I lost my video - all I could see was a
> > > white screen with vertical stripes. I received some advice as to how
> > > to fix this, none of it worked - I was even able to boot into a live
> > > 10.04 session if I used the "nomodeset" graphics option, but wasn't
> > > able to fix my problem. I don't quite understand how the new Grub2 is
> > > better than the old one - I can't access it by any known keyboard
> > > tricks that I know (tab, shift etc), and I can't manually edit it - I
> > > tried, and ended up in a memtest hell...
> > > 
> > > Tonight I finally gave up and decided to do a new install from the
> > > Live disk using nomodeset, installed and rebooted like a trooper,
> > > started doing upgrades etc, and didn't even do a kernel or driver
> > > update when after a reboot I was back to a white screen, vertical
> > > stripes.
> > > 
> > > I'm going back to 9.04 tomorrow, life's too short to waste screwing
> > > around with an OS, no matter how good it may be. I know I'm not the
> > > only one out there with a Radeon Xpress 200M card in a Dell Inspiron
> > > 1501 - there are lots of emails in the bug lists, but the bugs are all
> > > listed as closed. This latest attempt on my part was on a clean,
> > > vanilla install, so I know it's not something I've done, and if it is
> > > then Ubuntu is no where near ready for the big time. I've been a happy
> > > camper for over 5 years, sure, had some problems but usually I was
> > > able to sort them out with help from this list, but this time I give
> > > up. I don't want to be a computer geek, I just want to load an OS that
> > > works as I expect it to.
> > >     
> > You did not have to move to 10.04 as soon as it was released! But you
> > will have to move away from 9.04 when 10.10 comes out because 9.04
> > support will end then...
> > 
> > I don't understand how you can blame grub2 for what seems to be a kms problem.
> > 
> > Since nomodeset works when you boot from a Live CD, it should also
> > work for your install.
> > 
> > Did you google or post on this list to find out how to add nomodeset
> > to your grub2 boot stanzas?
> > 
> >   
> I always have problens with the video and totem. So I still with
> hardy.

What I would like to understand really is why regressive bugs? I had
sound in 9.10 on my external speakers and I could use my internal
microphone out the box. In 10.04, I had to modify alsa-base.conf in
order to use my external speakers in such a way that now I am unable to
use my internal microphone. The point being not the issue of not using
my internal microphone but more why a regressive bug ? How can that
happen and most importantly why?