8.10b - first impression and questions

[Girard Henri]

ya 2.6.27 kernel doesn't work for me on intel dualcore
i tried mandriva fedora and intrepid all the same 
the kernel doesn't start !

Le mardi 07 octobre 2008 à 11:26 +0200, guido dom a écrit :
> Hello
> May I add my feelings?
> 8.04 (and beta 8.10) may be improvements for some but not for me.
> My audio and my webcam are no longer recognised in my Medion MD 96640
> laptop but do work in my desktop - although somewhat older) and do not
> work in the new kernel. This is not only the case with Ubuntu but also
> with Linux Mint and Debian 5.0 Lenny.
> Wireless is impossible, even with the Windows drivers (via
> ndiswrapper).
> An external usb (Belkin) adapter works now and then.
> 
> Upgrading is not always an improvement.
> 
> I did submit the bug (is it a bug?) but:no solution up till now.
> Yes, solution: stick with 7.10 wherin everything works.
> 
> By the way: the same is true for Kubuntu and KDE
> 
> 
> 2008/10/7 Myriam Schweingruber <schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch>
>         Hi Billie,
>         
>         On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Billie Walsh
>         <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
>         > Decided that I might give 8.10 a try and see just what it's
>         all about.
>         > Loaded it on a separate hard drive. Looks nice and works my
>         poor little
>         > eMachine quite well. No major hiccups so far.
>         >
>         > THEN, there's this big ugly box on my desktop that says
>         "Desktop". How
>         > can you get rid of that thing? I clicked on the closing
>         button and the
>         > main desktop went away for a second and when it came back it
>         was still
>         > there and something stupid was covering my task bar.
>         
>         You just had a plasma crash. Try again to remove the "Folder
>         view"
>         widget, it might work the second time. I managed to disable it
>         without
>         problems, but plasma is sometimes a bit bitchy :) (remember
>         this is
>         beta! ) And that "something stupid" are the widgets which
>         appear on
>         the top left by default. Just drag them away, this only
>         happens when
>         plasma crashes.
>         One small suggestion: if you use a panel on top, avoid using
>         it full
>         lenght, so you have a small space to drag widgets easily. KDE
>         4 is
>         currently configured to work with a panel at the bottom. You
>         will also
>         have to reconfigure the mouse moves for the active desktop if
>         you want
>         to use it, as "pushing top left" is used for a 3D
>         functionality.
>         
>         ...
>         > Just about everywhere you click it wants to add even more
>         junk.
>         
>         But you don't have to :) Some people want their desktop
>         clustered
>         (remember Win screenshots with "everything" on the desktop?).
>         Left
>         click does nothing, right click of course opens a context
>         window where
>         you "can" choose things. Just don't do right clicks :)
>         
>         As for now you can configure almost everything in KDE 4.1.2.
>         It works
>         like a charm on my old machine (Pentium IV with 1 Gb RAM).
>         (except for
>         Kontact, but that is another story...)
>         
>         Greets
>         
>         Myriam
>         
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> Guido (dompie) Dom
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