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April 2nd, 2013 21:00

13.04 Problems and Suggestions

Hi,

I know that 13.04 is still beta software and I'm not expecting it to run perfectly. However, I'd like to report that I'm having a few issues so that you guys can try to fix as many as possible before the 13.04 LTS at the end of April.

Problems:

1. The computer is unable to wake-up from a suspended state (black screen with error codes -19 and -62). It does this almost every time and I suspend the laptop. To fix, I have to do a hard reboot.

2. Speaker sound volume is very low at 100%. I can go into the settings and manually turn the sound above 100%, but even then it is too low.

EDIT: I no longer think this is a problem. I appears that the issue was with he files I was playing and maybe the software. I played a bunch of mp3s today and they seem to be loud enough. It is still necessary to go into settings to turn the volume past 100 however.

3. The touchpad drivers still need A LOT of work. We need to be able to move the cursor across the screen in 1 swipe (currently it takes about 3) and we need to be able to customize multi-touch gestures from the GUI.

4. The auto-dim feature does not work (but manual dimming does)

5. Battery life tops out at 4 hours. This is much worse than under Windows 8 and needs to be addressed.

6. The 1080p screen is AWESOME but Ubuntu seems to lack a setting for adjusting font size that will apply to all applications. So even if I change the font size in Unity, it doesn't apply to third party apps, such as Chrome. I don't know if Dell can do anything about this, but I'm reporting the issue just in case.

Thanks for providing this forum and for being responsive to user concerns.