New 12.04 Beta 1 install comments

[daihard]

4 GB with my pc having 3GB of RAM

Okay, then that's not likely an issue.

Did your computer work fine with regard to sleep/hibernation when it had an older version of Kubuntu?

[Krzysieq]

I'm not 100% sure, but I will make a test tonight with the Win8 customer preview I have installed to see if it's not a general machine problem. Would sleeping/hibernating it from a system booted from a live CD be a meaningful test? I have some older kubuntu distros burnt on CD, including 11.10, I could try tonight.

[Krzysieq]

I checked with Win8, and it apparently does not propse an option such as putting the PC to sleep Only hibernate is available, at least for as much digging in the settings as I've done. That said, hibernate worked like a charm. Then I tried sleeping my kubuntu. And it seems like the PC wakes up, but not the screen - it remains black, while I can see some hdd and wifi activity (led lights on the pc's case blink). Any idea? Video card driver? I remember having some problem like this in 11.10, but I hardly ever really use sleep or hibernate. It's just that when my battery runs out of juice and the system suspends itself, I'd rather not have to reboot the hard way just the get the system up and running again. I've just tried to hibernate it, and the result is a bit weird - nothing happened except for locking the session and turning the display off (or black, dunno really). I accidently touched the mouse, and got the password prompt immediately.

[buckeyered80]

I've only encountered 1 weird problem. If I try to play any movie file with dragonplayer or VLC, I get logged out. Never seen that before.

I had that also, I had to switch to the MESA driver. It's a bug and I believe it's been reported. This may only apply to ATI fglrx users, because someone earlier said their NVIDIA driver installed fine.

[67GTA]

I had that also, I had to switch to the MESA driver. It's a bug and I believe it's been reported. This may only apply to ATI fglrx users, because someone earlier said their NVIDIA driver installed fine.

My two ATI machines both exhibit this bug. My three Nvidia machines don't, and play movies just fine. Radeon and fglrx both choke when playing movies.

[ferri]

Yesterday I tried Mageia 2 Beta 2 KDE in vmware virtual.
I already had Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 in virtual.
But I must state as longtime Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia user that Kubuntu has higher quality.
And I consider to migrate to Kubuntu after 24th of April.

[oshunluvr]

LAME:
My digital output from my sound card has been broken since 11.04. I'm going to boot to an older version to verify it works without the phenon/pluseaudio garbage. Then I'll have to start trouble shooting again.

IMO sound is one of the basic requirements that should be a very high priority - right after video. They just had it working in 9.04 without having to go through hours of gyrations then they broke it again. I've been using my analog output only since 10.10 hoping someone would fix it.

EDIT:
By installing paprefs (and about 8 dependencies - mostly gnome) I was able to force dual simultaneous output through the digital connection which enabled the coax digital connection. My card has both optical and coax digital out and the optical worked, but not the coax.

However, kmix crashes every time you touch the sound system. It's not getting along with pulseaudio at this time. No matter - I use the pavucontrol to set the base volume and then my headphones and speakers have "manual" volume control.

[ferri]

Pinta:
I added gimp and pinta with all suggested dependecies.
Gimp is OK.
Pinta is not working and refuses to start.

[Krzysieq]

New problem, or old problem in a new configuration. Seems like sleep works most of the time, but I can't power down the PC now. When I select to shut it down (be it with the button or on command line), it freezes in the process. Sometimes the kubuntu splashscreen stays on, sometimes the screen is blacked out, but in either case the leds for power, wifi and other remain lit until I hold down the power button. This is not happening on Win 8 I have, so it's not likely a hardware issue. Anyone had similar issues?