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Wow!

It would have been nice to know that my Thinkpad T60 (and other systems systems using ATI’s proprietary fglrx drivers) would lose the ability to suspend or hibernate after following Ubuntu’s Update Manager’s suggestion to upgrade to Gutsy.

To make matters worse, this was no surprise to the Ubuntu team since community testers were complaining for months prior to Gutsy’s release. And the driver worked fine in Feisty: the issue seems to be related to rushed adoption of a new kernel memory allocator, despite widespread knowledge of lingering problems.

This is very disappointing coming just as more and more people are taking a serious look at desktop Linux.

Proposed solutions include: downgrade to Feisty (!!! – a warning not to upgrade in the first place would be better) or use the open source ATI driver. While I appreciate the incredible effort made by the open source developers, it is still dramatically slower than ATI’s, and effectively unusable with Compiz.

In fairness to Ubuntu, it seems Fedora and Suse are experiencing the same problems.