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The link takes you to the relevant post on the Adaptec Linux blog where you can pick up all the bits necessary to make ASM work on Ubuntu/Debian. I tried to install asm_linux_x86_v5_30_17509.rpm on an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system with the Adaptec RAID 3405 controller and 4 Samsung SATA drives. Here's what worked for me ...

There's some sort of conflict between the "Tab Mix Plus" extension and the "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications" extension (the latter is installed by default on Ubuntu). If both extensions are enabled and you've the "Web Developer" extension installed too, the toolbar of the latter seems to disappear from time to time. The solution: disable one of the two extensions (I used to give up the Ubuntu extension), exit Firefox, delete the localstore.rdf file from your profile, start Firefox. Note that this will remove all of your toolbar customizations, thus you'll have to redo them after the cleanup.

Apparently Ubuntu changed the startup process significantly in Karmic, since GDM is now not started by a startup script in one of the the /etc/rc[0-9].d directories, but something else. Even the /etc/init.d/gdm filesystem entry was changed: it's now a symlink pointing to /lib/init/upstart-job. The latter is part of the upstart package which has the following description ...

I recently upgraded our LTSP servers at the company from Jaunty to Karmic. It was just by coincidence that I noticed a few minutes ago that Ubuntu got a new notification daemon called Notify OSD in Jaunty. I have not noticed any difference in behaviour after the upgrade to Jaunty or the upgrade to Karmic. But having read about it (both good and bad opinions) rose my suspicion that our servers still use the old notification daemon. It turned out that during the upgrade to Jaunty the new notify-osd package was installed indeed (so far so good), but the old notification-daemon was still left behind and apparently if both are installed, notification-daemon is picked by Ubuntu to be used. Uninstalling the latter left only notify-osd which resulted in the appearance of the new notification bubbles. Now that I know we can choose which one to use, I'll leave it up to the users (my colleagues) to decide. If you happen to know how to set/change the order of preference in case both daemons are installed, please share your knowledge in a comment.