Just freshly installed Kubuntu on a Core 2 Duo system, Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX, onboard sound and I have a USB headset plugged in. All of this works in Vista and XP without issue. After installation I discover that it hasn't detected my monitor (Acer AL2016W Widescreen 20") properly, it will only display at up to 1024x768. Setting it to custom or auto-detect just messes up the display badly and requires a reinstall of Kubuntu. The monitor's native is 1680x1050 @ 16:10 but I can't even get it above 1024x768(what the hell?) so I end up frustrated. So I leave that alone for now and move on.
at all. Yet another reinstall. Oooooook.
I reinstall yet again, I let Adept pickup all of the package updates and reboot as it asks, system becomes unbootable yet again, this time X keeps going into an infinite loop.
The only thing that seems "non-standard" to me in my hardware config is the headset but even then, people apparently have no problem with other USB headsets. I hate to sound like an idiot but nothing works out of the box as Ubuntu/Kubuntu were commonly said to be. Half of time trying to change things to proper settings seems to result in an unusable system. I'm beyond frustrated at this point and ready to give up on the Linux world. Any help is appreciated before I pull my hair out.
What am I doing wrong here? I don't see how I can be doing anything wrong. About the only thing that has actually worked thus far is the network auto-detection. I really want to enjoy Linux but it doesn't seem to want to enjoy me.
at all. Yet another reinstall. Oooooook.
I reinstall yet again, I let Adept pickup all of the package updates and reboot as it asks, system becomes unbootable yet again, this time X keeps going into an infinite loop.
The only thing that seems "non-standard" to me in my hardware config is the headset but even then, people apparently have no problem with other USB headsets. I hate to sound like an idiot but nothing works out of the box as Ubuntu/Kubuntu were commonly said to be. Half of time trying to change things to proper settings seems to result in an unusable system. I'm beyond frustrated at this point and ready to give up on the Linux world. Any help is appreciated before I pull my hair out.
What am I doing wrong here? I don't see how I can be doing anything wrong. About the only thing that has actually worked thus far is the network auto-detection. I really want to enjoy Linux but it doesn't seem to want to enjoy me.
and learn how to treat your system it will repay you doublefold. 
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