switching to kubunto first impressions and few questions

[Derek Broughton]

Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> 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

You didn't actually install Kubuntu, fresh, did you?  You've upgraded from
Debian, which is likely to result in a fair number of problems. 
Particularly, your /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd and probably /etc/group
& /etc/gpasswd are out of sync.

> 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?

No, it says that you disabled the device.  That seems perfectly reasonable.
 
> 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?

Incorrectly written DSDT in the BIOS.  Sorry, I don't recall the fix but
it's an ACPI parameter in the grub boot settings.

> 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. 

Cheap hardware gives cheap results.  I can live with those limitations.  I
don't even know if the Intel graphics can do that in Vista, but certainly
not in X.

> 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 have that with my laptop and a 945 graphics card.  System Settings -
Monitor and Display.
-- 
derek