****Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:07 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 
> 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
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what's the Dell system we are talking about (Dimension|Optiplex|Vostro)
and model?

Craig