bios

[clemm17]

I have purchased a cheap used computer, specifically to learn kubuntu on. I have successfully run ubuntu on my main computer, but I am having trouble with this one. I have tried ubuntu 7.04, kubuntu 7.something and currently have ubuntu 5.1 installed. Thats the one I ran before.
The problem is, im having trouble loading the programs I want. Atomica is one of them. A better automatic installer is another. About 90% of the available packages wont install. I keep getting a hardware not supported error.
I dont think it is a computer hardware problem. Everything works. Its a dell with a pentium P4 at something like 2.8 mgz. Its a dell precision 360 with 512 megs of ram. 80G harddrive.
I think it might be a bios setup problem. This computer is only for kubuntu. I want to run kubuntu because when I ran ubuntu, I downloaded and ran the kubuntu programs anyway.
My question is how do I configure the bios setup, to work best with kubuntu. I know the simple things like the hard drive, but there are alot of other choices, like usb support, pallet snoop pnp ect ect, that im either guessing on or simply going with default , which is probably for windows.
Thank you for your help!

[HavocXphere]

Re: bios

Look for something called "Optimized deafults" in the bios. The default values should work perfectly fine. You could also try to reset the values to default by disconnecting the PC from the mains, taking out the CMOS battery for ~2mins. Either way you will have to reconfigure the boot order/first boot device in the bios back to the HDD.

But I don't think this is a BIOS issue.

Have you tried the latest kubuntu version (8.10)?

Perhaps also provide some detail on this error your getting.

[clemm17]

Re: bios

Thank You for your reply. I remember in some of the early versions of linux , (Red Hat, and Mandrake) I had to change some of the bios setting to get it to work. One of them was pallet snoop. I had to enable it for Linux and disable it for windows. The error is simply "cant install selected package, because it relies on unsupported hardware."

[clemm17]

Re: bios

I just finished replacing this os with the latest version of suse. I dont have it completely running yet, and I havent figured out how to install anything yet, but it seems to be stable and running pretty well. I can configure firefox on this version, and after adding stumble I came upon this : http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/11/10-...mediately.html .
I was wondering if maybe this is part of my problem?