Just done fresh install few niggles

[katoiam]

Ok so I have just completed a fresh install, formatted / left /home as was, very pleased to og i and find all my previous preferences were still there, cool.
BUt I still got a few niggles, a few left over from 9.10 and a few new ones
New ones:
1) I know I have dragon player but it doesnt appear in the menu! not a problem as such, just seems a bit odd
2) I cant install skype, or avant! Not sure if they are in a repo I havent added yet, but I have added medibuntu and google, any ideas
3) Whats up with amarok, why does it only have a play/ pause button? Where is stop and next track?
Old ones:
1) I a using a usb sound card as my internal laptop on is broke and only comes out of one channel, how ever everything EXCEPT firefox has no worries using it, firefox how ever insists on using the internal one and its very anoying for youtube etc. any ideas?
2)Klipper doesnt load when I start the computer! Klipper is one of the nest bits of kde I recon and it annoys me that I have to start it manualy

also on a side not could some one help me try to write a tiny script! I have newer written one before, I have recently setup a NFS network over 3 aptops in our share house and the other 2 ccmputers get turned off frequently and the owners arnt realy konsole users! I want to just write a quick script so they could mount the foders on there computers, and so I can when they turn it on with out having to use the commands each time. I also just want to learn the basics I just want to have a few lines like this:
sudo mount 192.168.1.5:/home/kato/Music /home/pandafei/Katomusic

I just kinda need to know what to put arround the commands to make it work
thaks a buch
ciao
Liam

[wfischer]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

3) Whats up with amarok, why does it only have a play/ pause button? Where is stop and next track?

Click View > Slim Toolbar and you'll get your buttons back

[katoiam]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

Thanks for that mate, amarok looks abit more healthy now, why did they do that? Any one got any ideas about my problem with firefox?

[katoiam]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

hello can any one help me? they are small but very annoying problems, especially firfox
thanks
liam

[Snowhog]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

Have you tried disabling the onboard sound card via the BIOS?

[katoiam]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

Snowhog, how would I go about doing that?

[Snowhog]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

Reboot your PC. When you see the initial text, which is the BIOS boot flash (my words), there is a message, usually at the bottom of the screen, that tells you what key to press to enter Setup. On my laptop, it's F2.

When in the BIOS setup, look for such a setting that enables/disables onboard sound.

[devnulljp]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

lso on a side not could some one help me try to write a tiny script! I have newer written one before, I have recently setup a NFS network over 3 aptops in our share house and the other 2 ccmputers get turned off frequently and the owners arnt realy konsole users! I want to just write a quick script so they could mount the foders on there computers, and so I can when they turn it on with out having to use the commands each time. I also just want to learn the basics I just want to have a few lines like this:
sudo mount 192.168.1.5:/home/kato/Music /home/pandafei/Katomusic

I just kinda need to know what to put arround the commands to make it work
thaks a buch

All you really need is to add #!/bin/sh, like this:

#!/bin/sh
sudo mount 192.168.1.5:/home/kato/Music /home/pandafei/Katomusic

then chmod +x it

Although the user will have to be in the suoers group and input their password to run it

[katoiam]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

thanx both of you,
I how ever have amore major problem now, my cpu is going over board, for some reason xorg is regularily using 30%+ and its over heating really easily since the reinstall! any ideas
thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

This is a fresh install. It is likely that Strigi/Nepomuk, which is initially searching your /home directory to build it's search index, is causing the high load on your CPU. You can easily check this, by disabling Desktop Search.

K > System Settings > Advanced > Desktop Search and uncheck, in this order, Strigi Desktop File Indexer and then Nepomuk Semantic Desktop

Then logout of KDM and relog back in. See if you CPU load doesn't go down a lot.

[katoiam]

Re: Just done fresh install few niggles

unfortunately I have already disabeled them! IT was very sow before but its till continues to suck much more resoucrces than in 9.10!
Also I have tried to disable my internal soundcard in the bios, but cant find it any where?!?!?