Fiddly Little Problems

[Billie Walsh]

Kubuntu 7.10. All up to date.

1) Screen savers won't work. Doesn't seem to make any difference which
ones. None will work. I hate the power saver thing.

For this next one I need to give a little background. I have been using
OpenSuSE for the past two-plus years. Latest version 10.2 [ not to sure
I will try 10.3 ]. OpenSuSE has "Yast" to do just about anything that
needs to be done to a computer. Thus I will probably mention SuSE a few
times.


2) Is there a hardware configuration software available? Hopefully
something in a GUI. I'm not very CLI friendly.
2a) I need to configure my TV card. In OpenSuSE I can configure the
proper card, not just the chip set. It ALWAYS worked better under SuSE
when the card was configured. Not an "end-of-the-earth" problem but it
would be nice to have it working.
2b) Lately I have had to reload completely twice because of an IDTenT
error. SuSE had Sax2 that could be run from the command line rescue boot
to reset the video configuration. Is there something similar for K/Ubuntu?

3) I can't access any of the other drives on my system. Returns a
message from Hal [ Open the pod bay door Hal. I can't do that Dave. ] -
"hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000" [ I said open the
pod bay door Hal. I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. ]. Both drives are
SATA. One contains Win XP and the other is OpenSuSE 10.2. It would be
nice to be able to transfer some files between the drives once in a
while. A few versions of SuSE back this used to be transparent. Since
Hal(9000) came along it hardly ever works as advertised. [ Could someone
call Dr. Chandra ]

4) In my searching I have seen reference to making an ISO of your system
that is bootable and will reinstall your system as it was when the ISO
was made for when IDTenT errors occur. I have Mondo and Mindi installed
but can't seem to find/figure out how to get the process started. The
instructions on the Mondo site don't work. Comes back with an error that
bash can't do something. Any other suggestions for a way to do this?

So far, other than these fiddly little problems I am extremely happy
with the system. I may have other problems when/if I try getting my
PSK31 software working.