As I have previously stated I have been using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn since it was in its Beta phases. I was hoping to give back to the community and notify them of any bugs I encountered. The beta period has now finished and as many people know, they released the official version on April 19th. Unfortunately I wasn’t much help to Ubuntu as I did not run into any problems save two small “glitches”.
The first small bug I had was with the GDM login screen. For some odd reason it would not size correctly. It would take my wide screen resolution of 1440×900 and attempt to cram it into a standard 4:3 format. This wasn’t a big problem as it only seemed to occur on the GDM login screen and once I logged in the system would display at the proper resolution.

The second problem was from one of the patches/updates they had released. The 2.20.14 kernel wouldn’t boot. The funny thing about this glitch was that by the time I had realized it I simply booted back into 2.20.13 and updated to 2.20.15. Since then it has been smooth sailing.

For the first bug I placed a bug in launchpad. I now realized that I messed this up by adding my problem to a bug from long ago that had since been closed out. The best part of the story is when I started up the machine today the problem had been fixed! It appears that my update from yesterday some how remedied the problem. It is also important to note that now when I boot I get the proper Nvidia splash screen as I am currently using the nvidia-glx graphics driver.

Just another great reason to use Ubuntu!

The final thought is I am still scheming was to give back to the open source community so be looking for my resolution in the very near future.