Any help will be greatly appreciated

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

If you can run from the LiveCD you know that certain hardware, such as video card, network card sound card are supported. Then if, after the install, your Nvidia card is not working you know it is only a matter of using the proprietary drivers. That is about the only benefit. The CD also has an option to test the validity of the CD. I have never needed it but some do. My inclination is to think that things worked unless I saw an error and jump in with both feet.

[deltaecho]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Run from CD. The first thing it will ask is language choice, after that use the default first choice and it takes about 3-5 minutes (or less) to load up. Let me know if you get to the desk top

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Lots of great help here people.
Thank you.
Almost done with the d'load. will report back soon

[GreyGeek]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Here is a site which explains how to install the Kubuntu MCE

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Installation_Guide

A lot of times folks just download the iso and burn it without doing an md5sum check against it to verify that the download was good. So, sometimes, their CD is bad.

The reason I asked you to check your hardware with a LiveCD of Kubntu is that it will automatically detect and configure your hardware. IF it can display the KDE desktop then you know that your video is recognized. If it can't then you know that you have to chose the "safe" mode and then download and install the appropriate video drivers. However, for NVIDIA chips I would be surprised if the LiveCD did not detect and configure the video properly..

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

And we have a desktop...
woohoo!!! you guys rock.
I suppose I'll stumble around a bit and try to learn how to use it.
I presume that a straight install would be in order now; no?

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

You got it. Then we can get the proprietary drivers installed so you get hardware rendering, and you can get a look at the new KDE, which is really great, but takes a little learning.

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Doin' a victory bhonghit, on all of your behalf, while the integrity check runs...

cough

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Well... here we are.
got a desktop, but it looks like maybe I still need to config driver
also... logitech bluetooth kdb and mouse driver...

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Is there something similar to device mangler?

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

To find out about the driver you could open a terminal (K->Applications->System->Terminal) and run glxinfo. Scroll back to the top of all the output and it will say something about hardware rendering. If you got it your fine, if not you need the driver.

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

Kind of. At the terminal run
sudo aptitude install kinfocenter
It is just info though, doesn't control device support. The linux kernel does that on its own by loading modules.

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

sudo glxinfo

?

[Max Girth]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

glxinfo does not appear to mention anything about hardware rendering

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

I thought so. It is currently running with the Xorg nv driver. You need to enable proprietary drivers and then install it. I am a little surprised that your system has not suggested this.

You can uncomment the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list or work with the GUI to do this.
sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

will get you editing the sources. You should probably comment any deb-src lines unless you intend to build packages from source. Any line starting with a # is a comment. You want to uncomment lines that refer to universe and multiverse, but probably not the src lines.

Then
sudo aptitude update
followed by sudo aptitude search nvidia
and sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-settings

This should pull in the 180 version of the drivers and keep you updated for newer versions.

[flarson]

Re: Any help will be greatly appreciated

I thought by the time I finished that someone else would have described the GUI method. Basicly, open K->Adept-> Settings-> Edit Software Sources. Enable proprietary and restricted software. It should update itself and you can then find the drivers and install them.

If you want good multimedia programs like Amarok you will want to add these 2 lines

#deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty free non-free

You probably want to look at
http://www.medibuntu.org/

By the way your coughing brings back some great memories.