The new Ubuntu Feisty Fawn arrived at my doorstep through ShipIt this month. Pleased and excited I popped in the CD and waited with excited breaths about the new Ubuntu Feisty. But a terribly when the Live Cd had booted (after a wait of 15 minutes in my PC – a pentium III), I was shocked to find my mouse did not work and the GNOME desktop not loading applets. Considering that it may be a problem with my PS/2 jack, I restarted, and unplugged and plugged in again my mouse. However no avail and lo it was working in my Edgy fine.

I booted the Live CD again I installed Feisty using my keyboard only, but even after installation it did not work at all.

I launched Firefox (not IceWeasel, eh) and did a quick google search and I realised that not only I faced this problem. The majority of SiS chipset users faced this problem too. Realising the problem, I quickly performed a system update and upgraded my kernel and this problem was solved at once.

But one thing still bothers me, the Live CD is no use to me except installing themshelves.

I faced a similar problem in my CD of GPatred Live CD.

Does that mean this a general linux kernel problem and not ubuntu feisty problem.

What worried me though that with months of debugging this bug was not waived off before the release of Feisty. Since one of the chief aim of Feisty was to give services to an average user, but any average user who has not used Linux before (and having SiS chipset) would be backed off immediately. I did not face much agony since I have used Ubuntu before and did the kernel upgrade immediately.

I do not criticise the development team, but I think for getting more users the development team should be a little more careful. (Wonder this problem was there in the beta releases of Feisty???)