Comments on: First Look at Kubuntu 9.10, “Karmic Koala”

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:55:18 +0000

Hi Michi. I have since upgraded the laptop to 10.04 and have had no issues. I installed it fresh from a beta CD so I did not keep any of the changes I made in this blog. I’ve since dist-upgraded to the full Kubuntu and all is still working fine. I think you should be safe to upgrade.

By: Michi

Michi — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:51:50 +0000

Works great… Many thanks!

Have you had experience with Kubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ and ‘Compaq EVO n610c’? I don’t dare to upgrade my Kubuntu version now…

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:20:37 +0000

Thanks, the recommendations on the xorg.conf file worked.

However, I saw another post which actually turned on XAA instead and named the identified ATI 7500.

I hadn’t tried that, wondering if that worked.

I haven’t been able to get compiz however to work even after this tweak, but it solved some gobbledygook that was showing up.

By: gerhard

gerhard — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:11:57 +0000

looking for a solution for the unreadable menu and garbled window dressing on my thinkpad T42 I found this web site and Brads comments.
Adding the items to xorg.conf made the thinkpad work als expected.
Thank you, Brad

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:47:28 +0000

I got a weird issue with cisco vpn client on this Kubuntu release, I spent whole day on it today but couldn’t fix it.

I used vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.02.0030-k9.tar.gz, it compiled fine after patch vpnclient-linux-2.6.31-final.diff and one other manual fix.

However when I connect to VPN it seems to work just fine, it holds for 1 minute and then stops responding. Connection drops within minutes with message:

Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client
Reason: Remote peer is no longer responding.

- I checked firewall of course, it’s disabled,
- I checked group password, it is fine
- I got 2 other PC’s on the same subnet using same pcf file, one EL linux with exact same VPN client version which works just fine, another PC with windows also works fine, so it shouldn’t be netowkr problem.
- I traced IPSec, no errors, it just seems it never receives any packets from the concentrator

Anyway, in the end I tried same connection with vpnc and it works just fine :) I should’ve started the other way around. Let that the be learning point.

Lukas

By: mark

mark — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:37:00 +0000

anyone tried this fix above?

i implemented the fix and it choked:

parse error on line 14 of section Screen in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

unexpected EOF. Missing EndSection keyword?

(ee)problem parsing the config file

fatal server error
no screens found

By: Dixie Raj

Dixie Raj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:05:36 +0000

Excellent…. The Evo display issue resolution is just amazing… You made my day.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:54:15 +0000

[...] Ubuntu 9.10 beta 1 released for both Gnome and KDE desktops. The newest version of Ubuntu, code named “Karmic Koala”, is coming out in 20 days, but the first beta release was released this week. The adventurous can download the install images from the Ubuntu site (or Kubuntu if you prefer). Your editor reports on his first look at installing and running the newest version. [...]

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:27:32 +0000

That would explain it. Thanks Bill!

By: Bill Fraser

Bill Fraser — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:26:09 +0000

Hi Brad,

Nice article. I just wanted to point out that the reason you noticed support for LVM and software RAID is they are specific to the alternate CD. From the download page for the release (http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/), the alternate install provides for the following situations:

- setting up automated deployments
- upgrading from older installations with no network access
- LVM and/or RAID partitioning
- installs on systems with less than ~256MB of RAM