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This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies). | This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies). | ||
| − | This had to be sorted out semi-manually with <pre>sudo apt-get -f install</pre> | + | This had to be sorted out semi-manually with <pre>sudo apt-get -f install</pre>. |
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| + | The default theme (adwaita) was broken after the upgrade, leading to unpleasant transient issues with the desktop. | ||
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| + | Apart from some glitches with the mouse and a manual upgrade to Mate 1.14, everything seemed to work more or less. | ||
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| + | == Installing a XBox360 controller kernel driver == | ||
| + | |||
| + | Surprisingly, one new USB-device did not work out of the box and the kernel-driver needed patching. | ||
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| + | See https://askubuntu.com/questions/695069/xbox-controller-blinking Option 1 for the solution, which worked for me: | ||
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| + | <pre> | ||
| + | sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mdeslaur/steamos/ | ||
| + | sudo apt-get install steamos-xpad-dkms | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Summary == | ||
| + | |||
| + | Not perfect, but overall, it appears to work. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Some fine tuning is needed to get minor issues resolved. | ||
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| + | More to come... | ||
Revision as of 20:37, 21 December 2016
Upgrade procedure
After the graphical updater downloaded a ton of packages (around 3.5 GB in total) it started upgrading the system in place.
This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies).
This had to be sorted out semi-manually with
sudo apt-get -f install
.
The default theme (adwaita) was broken after the upgrade, leading to unpleasant transient issues with the desktop.
Apart from some glitches with the mouse and a manual upgrade to Mate 1.14, everything seemed to work more or less.
Installing a XBox360 controller kernel driver
Surprisingly, one new USB-device did not work out of the box and the kernel-driver needed patching.
See https://askubuntu.com/questions/695069/xbox-controller-blinking Option 1 for the solution, which worked for me:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mdeslaur/steamos/ sudo apt-get install steamos-xpad-dkms
Summary
Not perfect, but overall, it appears to work.
Some fine tuning is needed to get minor issues resolved.
More to come...
