****Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

[Trent Shipley]

On Tuesday 2008-08-26, Craig White wrote:
> 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
>
> ----
> what's the Dell system we are talking about (Dimension|Optiplex|Vostro)
> and model?
>
> Craig


Inspiron 530