switching to kubunto first impressions and few questions

[Knapp]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> few days ago I posted those questions - can somebody answer them please!
>
> ---
>
> I've been using debian for years now, but the stable version is rather recomended for server hardware, because it lacks support for modern hardware used on notebooks.
> I've been using SuSE on my notebook, but it is pretty heavy, so few friends and linux experts recommended to go to k/ubuntu.
>
> I've installed it the day before and the first impresion is pretty good, but I think I've expected much more. Despite of this that some expectations are unmet, I have few questions.
>
> 1) dhclient
>
> When I did network restart
>    sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> it said permission denied on /lib/dhcp3-client/call-dhclient-script.
>
> I did ls -al /lib/dhcp3-client/call-dhclient-script
>
> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root ssh 2960 2008-04-02 15:38 /lib/dhcp3-client/call-dhclient-script
>
> Why the h* it has permissions root:ssh
>
> I've installed another kubuntu and there it says
>
> -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dhcp 2960 2008-04-02 15:38 /lib/dhcp3-client/call-dhclient-script
>
> 2. wlan
> After installation wireless worked fine. I've installed a bunch of programs and now I can not activate the wlan trough knetworkmanager.
> Why? I was previously able to switch on/off by the hardware kill switch. What should I do to make it work
> I've been using the old ipw3945 with ipw3945d, I don't know much about iwl*.
> I read that few problems regarding this on dell notebooks will be solved in 2.6.27.
>
> When I use the software or hardware kill switch (and I do this because I don't like wave transmissions around me) I have permanent syslog messages like
>
> Sep 23 22:14:01 maistor kernel: iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
> Sep 23 22:14:01 maistor kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:0c:00.0 disabled
>
> It seems that there is link missing to ACPI. How can I get rid of it?
>
> The only way I found to enable/disable wlan is following:
>
> a) press the button for wireless control Fn+F2
> b) run iwconfig txpower on
> c) modprobe -r iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945 (this is necessary to initialize the driver. otherwise it says tx-power=-1Dbm)
> d) enable wlan over knetworkmanager.
>
> This is too much, especially as it requires superuser privileges. How can this be solved?
> There are few systems that seem not to work smoothly together like dbus/hal/acpi/ifplug(udev). So I  think I am over-challenged with this. Any help is appreciated.
>
> 3) shutdown/reboot
> When I reboot the system says sending TERM/KILL signal and it stays so for about a minute. Why?
>
> 4) dual monitor layout
> Appart the fact that intel 945 has a stupid 3d limitation of screen size and when using two monitors there is no 3d acceleration I observed following. When I login with a new user it spannes the screen on both monitors. With my old user I can not do this and have to run xrandr manually. When I have the home on the local partition I put the xrandr script in .kde/Autostart and it works but when I have my home on nfs partition it does not. Where is the problem.
>
> There are two other issues with this intel card and xrandr.
>
> Who is responsible to extend the functionallity of the krandrtray, so a user can say use two desktops - I'm really missing it.
> Also a feature for screen A left/right of screen B would be fine. Screen here is monitor of course.

I can't answer your questions but if you get no answer here try the
Ubuntu list because a lot of this is not KDE specific and even when it
is people there often know the answers.

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Douglas E Knapp

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