fuchur: actually I first installed 8.10 and performed a dist upgrade. after the first reboot I selected the old ubuntu 8.10 during the grub menu. once the system was up and running again I downloaded 2.6.28-9 debs from packages.ubuntu.com and installed it.
the strict ubuntu release cycle harms the renown of ubuntu. such bugs should simply delay a release. there are so many laptops out there which suffer from this bug. -- jaunty kernel 2.6.28-11 kernel update renders the system un-usable. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs