After long days of hesitation I finally decided to upgrade my existing Festy to Gusty. I have KDE and Gnome installed in my Festy distributing. After upgrading to Gusty I had a very slow UI, screen refresh is very slow and CPU load was peaking on every window refresh. The system was totally un-usable. Later I found out that there is bug in kernel which gets exposed in some systems with KDE and latest copiz. I tied to tweak in X and compiz settings but finally ended up screwing up my X. So I decided to scrap the existing installation and install ubuntu Gusty afresh. This time system performance is good and as per expectation.
Later I stared with the usual routine of puring the already installed modules and installing additional modules. I was very careful to pick and choose only the required modules. And after I have typed quite a lot of 'apt-get installs' I concluded the installation session. Did some bit of desktop and awn customization. System connected to net with out issues, both on wire-line and wireless. But then came the surprise, I found that my audio driver is not working :-( I was very surprised because as it was working fine in Festy. I started googling on the issue and found that alsa doesn't support my Intel hda sound card yet. And also found that there is a bug logged on alsa and ubuntu for 82801G version of hda driver. I couldn't find any work around yet !!! I am yet to test the video capabilities, I am already exhausted with audio issue, so I decided to give it a pause and live with no audio and video for some time.
So, put it short as of now encounter is still on. Yet to resolve issues... but net to net, I love the interface, customization and the feel of linux :-)
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