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
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