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**Snowhog** · Sep 09, 2009, 09:15 PM

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First, let me welcome you to KFN. I think you will like it here. Second, as to video issues, that can almost certainly be resolved to your satisfaction. Audio as well.

You should take a look through the Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers. After checking out the sections on video and sound, if you have questions, post back.

**wtbennington** · Sep 11, 2009, 12:41 PM

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Thanks for the feedback, however none of the things listed addressed my situation. Do you have any other suggestions?

**DeathKitten** · Sep 11, 2009, 01:07 PM

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With the machine that's got the nvidia card, have you looked at any of the options for running the nvidia provided drivers, instead of the open source drivers? I know I was able to download the nvidia drivers in the repos (there are a couple different versions, just read the descriptions in your favorite package manager program to grab the one right for your card), then you need to tell your xorg file to use nvidia instead of nv for your video card driver, and you should be shiny.

They do offer a program that'll assist in configuring everything correctly if you want to get a little more fancy on your setup.

It's been a little while since I did this with my desktop machine so I don't remember all the details. I do know that I learned how to do it on the forums, but my search fu has failed to find any of the posts I remember reading previously, otherwise I'd link you. dibl seems to be the nvidia master around here, maybe he'll pop in and help out?

**wtbennington** · Sep 11, 2009, 01:22 PM

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Death Kitten - thanks for the reply and suggestion. I must apologize as I must have forgot to add in that I did try the default open source drivers first and then the ATI and the NVidia drivers as well. It seemed that the system was more stable using the Open source but still there was no significant improvement. I think there was once combination I tried on one of the systems that did allow me to use desktop special effects but then when I would play a video I would have no video at all and some sound.

To make it easier for those reading the post I will list my two issues below.

Video: On both systems when trying to use desktop effects I either cannot enable them, or if I do it will not give me any video or the video will go start flashing and doing different things. I have tried various combinations of distros and open and closed source drivers with the same results.

Audio: on both systems the audio volume is pretty low and needs to be turned up a good bit louder than if I am using Windows.

Thanks

**dibl** · Sep 11, 2009, 02:24 PM

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On the one with the Nvidia card, first try having your card detected with KMenu>System>Hardware Drivers. Click very deliberately, and wait patiently - the driver downloads in the background, while you get no visual feedback.

If that doesn't work, then you'll have to manually download and install the Nvidia driver. Here is guidance on that (disregard old version numbers, just follow the process):

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...4892#msg164892

ATI card -- I dunno, I've never been much of a fglrxer. Some use the fglrx driver, some use the radeon driver, and some just flat don't work. Maybe Fintan or someone else who knows ATI cards can help you with that.

Audio -- of late, the ALSA setup seems to feature a default low volume, or no volume, on the PCM channel. So use your KMixer or alsamixergui and make sure you have a PCM channel and its volume is up.

Hope this helps.

**wtbennington** · Sep 14, 2009, 01:15 PM

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Thanks for the suggestions, First I want to state I do appreciate the feedback, and second, I had tried those things, and they didnt work. But for whatever reason right now System A is working fine, I do not know exactly what changed but for some reason the video seems fine.

However the audio I think may have been my fault, I was using some headphones and I do not think they were plugged in all the way, so right now I am blaming myself on that one.

I am going to be reinstalling on system B this week and see what happens.

Thanks again and Kudos to all the work you guys are doing on Kubuntu

**Snowhog** · Sep 14, 2009, 01:21 PM

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You're more than welcome. "But for whatever reason right now System A is working fine," Yet another testiment to Linux, the "self repairing" OS.

**DracoTB** · Sep 17, 2009, 12:39 AM

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I just installed Windows 7 after using Kubuntu for over a year. The experience so far has seen my games FPS double while taking the settings from minimum to maximum. Never had a problem with sound although Win7 seems to have output lower than I had in Linux but not by much.

I just really wish I didn't have to learn how to program just to get this thing working.

It's not even so much that you need to learn how to program. It seems to me that it's more that Linux is just massively unintuitive. It sometimes seems like such a fight to get things done. It doesn't help that there's so little support for Linux in the market.

I've been trying Linux every now and then since about 1997 and it gets a bit better every time but it's still not ready for the average non techie type person. I'll try again in a couple of years.

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