So I see this post for the upcoming version of Ubuntu 10.4. I get the familiar nerd tingle as I head on over ubuntu.com to download the Beta 1 release and geek out on the couch.
First impression: I like it. Standard incremental improvements. Nice theme. Another win for Linux.
Second impression: Unstable. But that's ok, right? It's Beta 1 and it's my own darn fault.
Third impression: That sinking feeling knowling that while my personal docs are all safe and sound on my separate /home partiion, and while all my favorite 'buntu software is just an apt-get away, I've totally blown away the magic grub boot option that gets my crappy laptop touchpad working.
Well, friends... never again. Because now I've got a blog to share my google research project results with the world. And myself.
Now last time it took forever to figure out the touchpad problem because I had nothing solid to throw at google. "ubuntu touchpad problem". Yeah, no.
Fortunately, I remembered it had something to do with adding a command to the grub boot setup, so that helped me get the answer much quicker this time.
Update GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in the file /etc/default/grub so that it includes "i8042.nomux=1". Now run update-grub and reboot. I have no idea what it means of what it does, but it fixes my driver conflict issue or whatever the hell was the problem. I could google it and figure it all out, but I'm going to go watch Zombieland on my iPhone.
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