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[Commander 598]

Clean Install of Kubuntu.
1st Issue:
At first the LiveCD would load up to a screen telling me something about my monitor being in analog mode, twice, then go to prompt that would not accept commands. I remedied this by finally getting around to using my digital connections and it worked fine then, but it's still weird.

2nd Issue:
I could not mount my Windows partition (Dual Boot). I blame a big fat lack of any references to it in fstab. Since fixed but I still have to manually mount it via terminal/konsole which sucks.

3rd Issue:
ATI fglrx drivers refused to work under 7.04 and I have no reason to believe they will work under 7.10 so I'm not even bothering until updated drivers are released. Besides, my display isn't all that bad with vesa drivers. 1280x1024@76Hz aka what I run on Vista though the lack of acceleration will undoubtedly prove to be a nuisance if I run anything that uses it.

4th Issue:
No drivers for X-Fi Soundcard thus no sound. Creative released some 64bit beta drivers not too terribly long ago, but I run an X86 OS and I hear they barely function anyway.

Beyond that, all is well.

This was without a doubt a premature release. The sheer number of people - including me - who couldn't even get the damn boot screen up thanks to botched usplash resolution autodetection should be enough to prove that.

I'm assuming that was my issue #1...

[Bounty]

I'm assuming that was my issue #1...

Possible. Are the settings in /etc/uspash.conf correct?

[Braedley]

I botched the upgrade, but the fresh install went very well. There are still a couple of things that need to get fixed, such as keytouch for XMMS, but all is progressing. One issue I had was that the installer froze the first time, but worked fine the second time.

[Bounty]

New problem: the panel dies for no apparent reason. Thank god the OS underneath is rock-solid, it doesn't take any other apps with it.

[Pu-239]

Buggy applet perhaps? If all fails try wiping out the gconf folders for the panel.


Also, new fglrx drivers out w/ AIGLX support for anyone w/ an ATi card newer than a 9600. Compiz blows on my work laptop w/ an X300 though.

[Braedley]

I'm finding that I enjoyed Beryl's settings manager much more than the Compiz manager. The Compiz interface may be a little cleaner, but it was easier to find the settings I wanted to change with Beryl.

In other news, my windows drive images that I'm using to do some of my senior project work on seem to have remained intact. This is good for obvious reasons. Now if only there were a file system that both windows and linux had rock solid native read/write support and supported file sizes more than 4 gigs (sorry FAT32, you just don't make the second cut), then I could take my work with me to the lab.

Keytouch magically works (I think all it needed was for X to be restarted, but I'm not sure). Firefox is the way I like it, and it didn't take much doing. All in all, I'm fairly happy with the system. I took me much less time to get everything working, about a day and a half compared to over a week. Granted, this time around, it isn't my first try at Linux.