Unsurprising Failure of being with AMD

Today, I upgraded my HP Pavilion G4-2123TX from 12.10 to 13.04.  I was very leery of the AMD hardware and I expected problems.  Well, I got them alright!

First off, the AMD drivers bombed HARD.  No amount of reinstall and reconfigure would help.  I would two helpful links that helped me get through this (here and here).  It is annoying to see AMD hardware fail so hard at simply working but such is the life of AMD owners.

Next problem was the wifi.  No matter what I did, I could not get my wifi to work with my security even though everything worked perfectly fine on the old 12.10 install.  I changed my security to WPA/TKIP from WPA2/AES and that seemed to help quite a bit (which messed with the wifi connectivity of my phone.  Ah, c'est la vie.)

Lastly, dual monitor is broken in my laptop.  Broken.  Bad.  Still no solution in sight yet.

Upgrade to Ringtail

I must admit, I am impressed that this panned out much more painless than I expected.  Everything looks a-okay but I did have a problem in getting two things to work.

Google Chrome looks for libudev.so.0 which is missing.  I had to do a symlink from libudev.so.1 to make it work.

Steam's apt repository does not seem to have Raring Ringtail versions.  I disabled the repository for now.  Steam itself seems to be working.