Jaunty Beta

[Paul_Vandenberg]

Just installed the Jaunty beta. Wow...I am impressed! KDE 4 is really starting to come around. Everything seems flawless! I love kpackagekit over Adept. Adept for KDE 4 seemed quirky to me.

[dibl]

Re: Jaunty Beta

I just now finished installing 9.04 Beta on an ext4 root filesystem, using the Alternate Install CD. There were exactly zero unexpected events -- and that's a good thing! I put it all on a 30G ext4 partition, so I can add my 8G WinXP VM to it, and download ISO images if I want, with no concern about disk space.

The "video thing" behaved remarkably well this time - the blue Kubuntu splash looks right and works right, the greeter pops up looking good -- no issues whatsoever, and this is BEFORE I start fiddling with the Hardware Driver manager. I'm going to give it one fair shot at installing an nVidia driver for my GTX260, and if that works I'm going to try enabling desktop effects, BEFORE I launch a Compiz installation.

But hey, it really does appear to be considerably more trouble-free than ever before, so congrats to the development team!

P.S. Surprisingly for the day after the Beta release, there are monstrous updates -- immediately after installation there were 57 updates that took some 20 minutes to come through on my broadband cable connection, and three hours later there were 8 more updates that took another 15 minutes. Interesting!

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Jaunty Beta

You get PowerDevil to work? I removed the guidance-power-whatever package, and made a hidden .desktop file in my .config/autostart with no luck... System Settings keeps telling me I can't start it.

[dibl]

Re: Jaunty Beta

I didn't try it -- I just installed kpowersave. It still works just fine.

EDIT: A quick check shows "PowerDevil" is not in the repos for 64-bit.

[kubicle]

Re: Jaunty Beta

EDIT: A quick check shows "PowerDevil" is not in the repos for 64-bit.

powerdevil isn't a separate package anymore, as a part of KDE, it's installed in the kdebase-workspace-bin and kdebase-workspace-data packages.

I removed the guidance-power-whatever package, and made a hidden .desktop file in my .config/autostart with no luck... System Settings keeps telling me I can't start it.

You don't need to explicitly start powerdevil, it's a service. (Check SystemSettings>Advanced>ServiceManager>StartupServ ices

You can configure powerdevil in SystemSettings>Advanced>PowerManagement
And control it with the "battery monitor" plasma widget.

[dibl]

Re: Jaunty Beta

You don't need to explicitly start powerdevil, it's a service. (Check SystemSettings>Advanced>ServiceManager>StartupServ ices

Yep, it's already running here.

Thanks kubicle.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Jaunty Beta

You don't need to explicitly start powerdevil, it's a service. (Check SystemSettings>Advanced>ServiceManager>StartupServ ices

You can configure powerdevil in SystemSettings>Advanced>PowerManagement
And control it with the "battery monitor" plasma widget.

Yep. It's shown as running in the Service Manager.

Power Management gives me the "The configuration module can not be started, since there seems to be a problem with PowerDevil Daemon. Read below for more details.
Another power manager has been detected. PowerDevil will not start if other power managers are active. If you want to use PowerDevil as your primary power manager, please remove the existing one and restart PowerDevil service."

So that is why I removed guidance-power-xxx and restarted the PowerDevil d from the service menu.

Edit: This is from an old, abused ppa install, so perhaps my issue is not the norm. Thanks.