That's actually a good idea, I can install my karmic ISO in a VM, reproduce
the bug and if it does work I will install the PPA on top of it, that should
save me some time, will hopefully remember to do it this afternoon.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM, WeatherGod <ben.v.r...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> vexorian, thank you for your assistance in this matter.  As a reminder,
> it is still not recommended to *install* Lucid just to test a few
> packages.  Also, a virtual machine, while very useful, can sometimes
> cause slightly different behaviors than your actual machine because some
> virtual machines translate the hardware into generic interfaces, causing
> the virtual environment to use different drivers than it would have used
> on the machine itself.  Therefore, in order for the virtual machine
> tests to be useful, the problem first has to be reproduced using Jaunty
> or Karmic in the VM, and then tested using Lucid in the VM.
>
> As an alternative, you can boot into a LiveCD session of Lucid without
> ever touching your current install (it is very much like how Knoppix
> works, if you have ever used that).
>
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