Hi, couple issues here I'm pretty sure can be remedied with some help.
Yesterday I installed 10.4 Kubuntu off Live CD, seemed okay up to now, aside from themes quirk. I'm running 2.8ghz P4, 1gb RAM, nvidia 6200 (256 mb). I'd been, for several years using Linux Mint with little to no trouble, but wanted something a bit more committed to later KDE.
1) Activated the "recommended" nvidia drivers for my nvidia 6200 card this morning. Now after enabling desktop effects, lost desktop background, just turned a blase grey.
2) Tried to reset desktop background, but "system settings" is blank, no matter whether I select treeview or whatever. In fact, *unless* I select tree view, it is completely blank. With tree view I still get a nice looking graphical front end, but when I select, say, "Look and Feel," the selected menu tree is to the left, but blank, dark grey area to right pane. There are these messages in the right pane - "The module Notifications is not a valid configuration module." Then down nearer the bottom of the relative pane is, "The diagnosis is: The desktop file settings-notifications.desktop does not specify a library."
3) I tried to remove the previously activated proprietary nvidia driver, accessed through kpackageKit, and it seems to begin but parks there forever and doesn't remove it.
4) I received a notice about almost 550 updates, and when I tried to use KPackageKit to upate (or to install ANY software) I get the following "Dependency resolution failed - KPackageKit" error message: (top) "A package dependency could not be found. More information is available in the detailed report." Checking details I see, "There are broken dependecies on your system. Please use an advanced package manage e.g. Synaptic or aptitude to resolve this situation."
Prior to this, I'd tried to get themes, installed one, shows now as selectable from within the "get themes" applet only to "uninstall." However, couldn't see it in pick list within system settings. checked ~./kde/share/apps/desktoptheme, and it wasn't there. So I manually unpacked theme to that dir. It's there, but never showed up in the pick list. Got theme from kdelook.org. That's not a biggie, but I'd still like it to show as it should/ought.
*That's* when I chose to activate proprietary driver, which looked procedurally identical to what I'd done with several versions of mint, successfully. That's when things turned mildly south.
As I say, I'm pretty certain that these things can be resolved, and my data's already been long ago backed up. So if I had to, I could just trash the install and start over. But on a mobile broadband connection, I would rather not go through sys updates and such all over again, and don't foresee needing to. I'm optimistic.
Thanks in advance for any/all assistance.
Cheers,
Rene (Note: that's masculine.)
Yesterday I installed 10.4 Kubuntu off Live CD, seemed okay up to now, aside from themes quirk. I'm running 2.8ghz P4, 1gb RAM, nvidia 6200 (256 mb). I'd been, for several years using Linux Mint with little to no trouble, but wanted something a bit more committed to later KDE.
1) Activated the "recommended" nvidia drivers for my nvidia 6200 card this morning. Now after enabling desktop effects, lost desktop background, just turned a blase grey.
2) Tried to reset desktop background, but "system settings" is blank, no matter whether I select treeview or whatever. In fact, *unless* I select tree view, it is completely blank. With tree view I still get a nice looking graphical front end, but when I select, say, "Look and Feel," the selected menu tree is to the left, but blank, dark grey area to right pane. There are these messages in the right pane - "The module Notifications is not a valid configuration module." Then down nearer the bottom of the relative pane is, "The diagnosis is: The desktop file settings-notifications.desktop does not specify a library."
3) I tried to remove the previously activated proprietary nvidia driver, accessed through kpackageKit, and it seems to begin but parks there forever and doesn't remove it.
4) I received a notice about almost 550 updates, and when I tried to use KPackageKit to upate (or to install ANY software) I get the following "Dependency resolution failed - KPackageKit" error message: (top) "A package dependency could not be found. More information is available in the detailed report." Checking details I see, "There are broken dependecies on your system. Please use an advanced package manage e.g. Synaptic or aptitude to resolve this situation."
Prior to this, I'd tried to get themes, installed one, shows now as selectable from within the "get themes" applet only to "uninstall." However, couldn't see it in pick list within system settings. checked ~./kde/share/apps/desktoptheme, and it wasn't there. So I manually unpacked theme to that dir. It's there, but never showed up in the pick list. Got theme from kdelook.org. That's not a biggie, but I'd still like it to show as it should/ought.
*That's* when I chose to activate proprietary driver, which looked procedurally identical to what I'd done with several versions of mint, successfully. That's when things turned mildly south.
As I say, I'm pretty certain that these things can be resolved, and my data's already been long ago backed up. So if I had to, I could just trash the install and start over. But on a mobile broadband connection, I would rather not go through sys updates and such all over again, and don't foresee needing to. I'm optimistic.
Thanks in advance for any/all assistance.
Cheers,
Rene (Note: that's masculine.)
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