3 issues, please help me

[Michael Bach (gmx)]

deguz wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm new at this list, so maybe other people have already talked about
> these issues. If so, i apologize.
> Well, then let's begin.
> First of all, i use Kubuntu 7.10, up to date version.
> 
> First one:
> Short version: wlan.

I recently eased my troubled mind (wlan issues, similar as described,
after upgrading from a ubuntu 7.10 beta release) by turning on essid
broadcasting on the router.

> 
> Second one:
> In this laptop there is an intel integrated video card, and i can't
> get compiz working.
> when i try to load compiz, the top of the windows' (the title bar) go
> away, and i can't control them, they stuck onto the place where they
> were.
> lspci |grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
> 

Don't know about compiz, but maybe the installer got the wrong drivers
for your graphics card. Can you post the first 5 lines you get after
running "glxinfo"? This should identify problems with the direct rendering.
Also, can you post the outcome of this command: "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
| grep Driver". You get a list of drivers X uses. With high probability,
it's the bottom line that shows the graphics driver in use.

> And the third one:
> I think i'm not alone with this, the brightness up and brightness down
> button don't work. I can set the brightness up and down with Power
> Manager, but not with the buttons. when i tried to set to those
> buttons as a shortcut to another command, the shortcut handler didn't
> see these buttons.
> 
> Best regards,
> deguz
> 
No direct glue to this one, I would play around with power management
boot options "acpi=forc" and "noapm".

regards, Mike