Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10
On Friday 30 Oct 2009 23:13:20 Peter Salisbury wrote: Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. Besides Grub 2 completely failing with my mixture of SATA and PATA disks, I've nothing but praise for Kubuntu 9.10. It runs like a charm on my machine, drives and codecs not a problem, and the whole thing feels nicely polished. Definitely the best release yet (and that's not always the case with a new Kubuntu release). Mark -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10
On 31/10/09 20:40, Chris Aitken wrote: I've just tried the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD, but it doesn't have the driver for the Broadcom 4312 wifi card in my Dell D630. Strangely the driver was there in 9.04. Sure - I could download it, but I'm in the lounge and only have wifi access, so it's a fail here. Seems I'm not the only one to miss it [1] I hit that issue too. I also hit problems with the touchpad on an Acer laptop - freezing and jumping, hopefully fixed by adding a proto= option to the psmouse module, at the expense of edge scrolling. Also it kernel panicked the first time I tried installing with Wubi and I had to reboot and try again. On the plus side it ran a bajillion times faster than Windows Vista. I have benchmarks to prove it and everything[1]. Dan [1] I don't really. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10
2009/10/31 Chris Aitken cs.ait...@gmail.com: Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. I've just tried the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD, but it doesn't have the driver for the Broadcom 4312 wifi card in my Dell D630. Strangely the driver was there in 9.04. Sure - I could download it, but I'm in the lounge and only have wifi access, so it's a fail here. Seems I'm not the only one to miss it [1] Chris [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcm43xx-fwcutter/+bug/379052 An issue I ran into with my wife's PC is that the openchrome video driver doesn't work with kde (strangely it does with gnome) so I had to switch to the vesa driver. Apparently using NoAccel in xorg.conf works too [1]. Peter https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/454128 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10
Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. I've just tried the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD, but it doesn't have the driver for the Broadcom 4312 wifi card in my Dell D630. Strangely the driver was there in 9.04. Sure - I could download it, but I'm in the lounge and only have wifi access, so it's a fail here. Seems I'm not the only one to miss it [1] Chris [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcm43xx-fwcutter/+bug/379052 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Kubuntu 9.10
Just been playing with kubuntu 9.10 and it's looking good on my old Toshiba laptop. Much cleaner interface by default, less wasted screen space, wireless configuration is excellent and performance is good too. Still not sure about desktop gadgets but they're pretty and easy to delete. ATB, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
