Wow -- the boys at Canonical must be working overtime!

[dibl]

Re: Wow -- the boys at Canonical must be working overtime!

If you made or received a Kubuntu Live CD, you can boot that and learn the kernel version by typing

uname -a

in the console. Same with your running OS.

Usually a kernel upgrade is released for all current versions of the OS, so I assume that it is available for all Gutsy installations, regardless of whether 32-bit or 64-bit.

Yes, a kernel upgrade will always add the new kernel to the top of the boot menu, preserving all others. So, your boot menu tends to grow over time. It's not a problem -- you can choose to remove older, unwanted kernels and they will be deleted from the boot menu as well as removed from your system.

[technogran]

Re: Wow -- the boys at Canonical must be working overtime!

Thanks for that info dibl, I also need help with this NVidia graphics update. When there was only one to choose, I did the update no problem, but now there are two to choose, have had alsorts of probs so what do I do? Have left it for now, but my NVidia card is NVidia GeForce 7300LE, so can you walk me step by step through getting this update installed? I know that I am being a nuisance. Your help is much appreciated.

TG

[dibl]

Re: Wow -- the boys at Canonical must be working overtime!

No problem. Here you go: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...cseen#msg88230

Or, you might want to download the Envy script from here

But it won't work for Gutsy unless you modify it as he describes in his July 29 post here That's what I did and it worked great. So the procedure is to download and install Envy, but don't run it until you edit the file /usr/share/envy/instun/classes.py just as he instructs. It works great!

[technogran]

Re: Wow -- the boys at Canonical must be working overtime!

Well dibl, didn't quite work as you had typed out, followed your instructions to the letterbut in first console, when I typed out the first instruction, came back with 'not found' so went to second and it came back with the settings menu for the nvidia drivers, and told me to type in 'nvidia-xconfig and then restart xserver, so did this and everything is in order or seems to be, nividia-gix is not installed, but the -new one is so looking good so far (gulp!) don't get cocky technogran!
So thanks for your help again.

TG P.S Don't know about the boys at Canonical working overtime, I think we are as well!