Hello All,
Some days ago I had installed Kubuntu 7.04 on a Gigabyte 945 mobo machine and it had the problem of hanging on shutdown/reboot. So at the same place I loaded the Ubuntu 7.04 DVD that came with this month's Digit mag. and the results were very good. Shutdown as well as reboot was smooth. Video resolution was also excellent. Sound was impressive with the African jungle snare music.
After installation I was missing the 'adept' package manager, so it was installed using 'sudo apt-get install adept'. A lot of dependent files were downloaded as it is a kde application. On starting it from the menu, it gave a warning that root previlages are required to make actually changes into the system. I could not locate the edit option for the menu item so a shortcut to main panel was created and that shortcut's properties were edited to add sudo before the adept-manager command. After that Adept ran smoothly.
Multimedia setup was very easy. Whenever a media was loaded, the player automatically detected missing codecs and offered to download it. They got automatically downloaded and installed. Only VCD support was not available. Maybe VCDs are out of fashion in the West. DVDs and mp3s played fine. Even one out of two Mpg4 files in the same DVD could be played. The other one ( Charlie Chaplin ) simply forced the player to close every time.
Gaim was setup for Yahoo and Google Talk. Google talk's setup was found from the web through a random google search.
So those who are planning to buy new systems can go for this board with Ubuntu 7.04. Those who have not yet bought the Digit June issue can do so if they are interested in this bootable DVD distro.
As a Kde fan and user, I am green with envy. :-D
--- Rony wrote:
Some days ago I had installed Kubuntu 7.04 on a Gigabyte 945 mobo machine and it had the problem of hanging on shutdown/reboot. So at the same place I loaded the Ubuntu 7.04 DVD that came with this month's Digit mag. and the results were very good.
I wonder why there is a difference in results. Instances in the past lead me to understand that Kubuntu and Ubuntu share minimal and differ a lot. This instance too, also leads to the same.
Typically, what is apparent is that Ubuntu and Kubuntu have different desktop environment and user applications are different. They have their own configuration tools, apart from the common basic CLI utilities. Then why do both distros differ in functionality on the same hardware?
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hi roni, what processor was on that 845 motherboard? and I tested the 965 motherboard with feisty and that too works as good. regards, Krishnakant.
krishnakant Mane wrote:
hi roni, what processor was on that 845 motherboard? and I tested the 965 motherboard with feisty and that too works as good.
Hi. It was a Gigabyte 945 board and Pentium Dual Core 3 GHz. processor, 1 GB RAM. The Sony DVD writer was SATA as it was only Rs. 200/- more. When buying motherboards, please look out for on-board PCI Express slots. Some 945 boards of MSI don't have them and clients cannot add additional graphics cards later on.
Did you try Intel original 965 RYCK? If so then with Core 2 Duo and PATA Optical drive?
Kamal Paryani wrote:
Did you try Intel original 965 RYCK? If so then with Core 2 Duo and PATA Optical drive? Regards, Rony.
yes i use ubuntu 7.04 on original 965 RYCK with core2duo 1.86 ghz and pata optical drive - it works great
That is very good. If possible could you give a short note on the installation experience?
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