KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

[Trent Shipley]

On Monday 2008-08-25, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 16:58 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> > I too prefer KDE over Gnome.  I've done fine with Kubuntu with some
> > caveats.
> >
> > --I have to alter the GRUB instruction file to get the @#$% kernel to
> > load on the Dell motherboard.  This is particularly annoying since the
> > machine shipped with Ubuntu.
> >
> > --It took several kernel releases before Hardy would work with my
> > Nvidia card.
> >
> > --The screen saver won't work.  It worked when shipped.
> >
> > --The KDE file viewers have a bug.  If you scroll off the first
> > screen, they scroll right back to the top of the file list.
> >
> > --I can't get Samba to work.  But that is probably due to my ignorance
> > of IP chains and Linux Firewalls.
>
> ----
> If you're using ipchains on ubuntu...I think that is your problem as all
> 2.6 kernels switched to iptables and I thought all legacy support for
> ipchains was dropped a long time ago.
>
> I have some Dell Optiplex 320/321 systems that grub completely fails and
> have had to use lilo to get them to boot...I'd be interested to know if
> you are also talking about these systems and what you did to get grub to
> work on them.
>
> I can usually help with samba configuration.
>
> Craig
>
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The critical part is adding "all_generic_ide" to the kernel line.  There is a 
performance cost to using the option according to the forum threads.  
Hopefully it will cease to be necessary in a future kernel.

/boot/grub/menu.lst

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic \ 
root=UUID=93640f13-66b2-4c35-beb1-2d73cf9b6e3f ro quiet splash\ 
all_generic_ide
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic\ 
root=UUID=93640f13-66b2-4c35-beb1-2d73cf9b6e3f ro single all_generic_ide
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-20-generic
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20-generic \ 
root=UUID=93640f13-66b2-4c35-beb1-2d73cf9b6e3f ro quiet splash 
all_generic_ide
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-20-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-20-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20-generic \ 
root=UUID=93640f13-66b2-4c35-beb1-2d73cf9b6e3f ro single all_generic_ide
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-20-generic