Another Karmic 9.10 success

[Snowhog]

Re: Another Karmic 9.10 success

Tonight, it's finally 'done.' I have a system that, for me, is complete. I added my desktop wallpaper as my Grub 2 bootsplash yesterday, and tonight I was able to change both, the KDM Login theme and the Ksplash theme to incorporate the same image. Now I have a very nice and polished 'looking' OS from boot through desktop. Life is good. 8)

[MoonRise]

Re: Another Karmic 9.10 success

That Login is just wicked man!!! That is so cool. Polished is good! Life, ehhhh, dealing with a busted water heater at the moment, so not great there .

[GreyGeek]

Re: Another Karmic 9.10 success

At church yesterday one of my "dependents" told me their Linux installation "had a virus".

I told him, "No, it doesn't have a virus. It may have a broken app or a hardware problem". He was sure it was a virus.

Today I booted up his DELL E510, a P4 with a 2.6 GHz CPU. I noticed he had a Compaq keyboard. Their boy broke the orginal keyboard. The second thing I noticed was that the POST test gave "keyboard error" on the screen. When the desktop appeared I tried several programs. They all worked fine. The "virus", it seems, was that FireFox couldn't play flash videos. I reinstalled the flash driver and FireFox could play youtube videos again. The Linux they were using was approaching 3 years old, so I decided to upgrade them to Kubuntu Karmic 32bit.

The install was perfect. I tried my canary, Stellarium, and discovered that it locked up the computer. So did GoogleEarth. The Compaq keyboard was bitting them. I suggested they go to BestBuy and get a $10 USB keyboard.

I decided to do a lshw to see what they got. It said the CPU was 64bit !!! I had my Karmic 64bit LiveCD with me so I attempted to boot it up. It ran perfectly. When they get the keyboard replaced I'll be returning to reinstall Karmic, this time the 64bit version.

[Snowhog]

Re: Another Karmic 9.10 success

Well, I've found one 'glitch' - I can't get my USB printer configured. This is a reported bug:
usblp Kernel module needs to be removed and /dev/bus/usb/*/* made accessible for USB printers to work with CUPS 1.4.x
on bugs.launchpad.net.

I tried one of the 'fixes' (reply #5) but it didn't work for me, so put things back as they were and added my bit to the bug report.

This isn't a show stopper - if I need to print something I've saved, I just run Jaunty and print from there, as this bug isn't present in Jaunty.