Awesome... ill give it go when I get home.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard A. Johnson</b> <<a href="mailto:nixternal@kubuntu.org">nixternal@kubuntu.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Wally Valters wrote:<br>| Sorry I missed the install party, but Im busy as all hell with work etc. I
<br>| have question though (2 actually)<br>|<br>| 1) I did a dist-upgrade and it totally borked my laptop, HP, ATI 200M<br>| radeon, and Broadcom wireless. I thin it was the restricted driver for ATI<br>| but not positive. I wiped the machine, did a clean install, restored the
<br>| /home partition then backed up the whole system. I turned on the<br>| restricted broadcomm driver and have wireess (totaly painless i might add,<br>| really cool). But I hesitate ot do the same with the ATI driver.
<br>|<br>| So, if I turn on the ATI restricted driver, and it hoses up the machine, is<br>| there a way to undo it from the console. I can remove it from xorg.conf I<br>| know, but how do i keep the thing from loading in the first place? I used
<br>| Envy to load the ATI driver in Feisty, and it worked like a charm, so I can<br>| always fall back on that.<br><br>Turn it on, it is fine. It probably works better in Gutsy than it did in<br>Feisty to be honest.<br><br>
| 2) Nixternal, I saw your blog post on KDE4 and it looks real nice, but the<br>| <a href="http://kubuntu.org">kubuntu.org</a> description of enabling it is a little sketchy. How about a<br>| little explanation on how to get KDE4 running for us ? KDE4 is the reason
<br>| I want a better driver running for my vid card, its a little clunky right<br>| now.<br><br>Install 'kdebase-workspace', 'kde4base-dev', and all of the kde4* modules.<br>They will be listed something like kde4graphics and what not.
<br><br>Copy /usr/lib/kde4/share/apps/kdm/sessions/kde.desktop<br>to /usr/share/xsessions/kde4.desktop. Edit the kde4.desktop file and make<br>sure the name says KDE 4 and not KDE.<br><br>Edit /usr/lib/kde4/bin/startkde and add the following at the top of the file:
<br><br>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/lib<br>export KDEDIRS=/usr/lib/kde4<br>export PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/bin/:$PATH<br>export KDEHOME=~/.kde4<br><br>Restart X, and you should be able to select KDE 4.<br><br>--<br>Richard A. Johnson
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