[Leaplist] ubuntu questions

[Dan Cherry]

John Simpson wrote:
> howdy-
> 
> i've got kubuntu running on my laptop, a mac powerbook g4. the installer 
> didn't work perfectly, but it was "pretty close"... two problems left:
> 
> (1) the video is a little bit "off", in that some of the graphic images 
> that came with it have entirely the wrong colours in them, and some of 
> the fonts (particularly the font that "konsole" uses) have extra pixels 
> turned on.
> 
> at first i figured some of the files had been corrupted during the 
> install, so i re-installed from scratch, this time using the beta-3 
> release of "feisty", and had the exact same issues.
> 
> then i noticed that in the "colour chooser", some of the actual colour 
> mappings were wrong- so it wasn't the graphics or the fonts, but the 
> colour map.
> 
> i went into their "system settings" widget and noticed that it just had 
> "ati" as the graphics card, and "unknown monitor". i explicitly told it 
> what kind of video card and display i have, saved the settings, and did 
> control-alt-backspace to restart the X server... and it came up with the 
> colours looking perfect.
> 
> however, this change apparently wasn't saved where the system uses it 
> when it boots up, because after a reboot the speckled graphics come back.
> 
> i haven't looked at what it actually did, if it wrote a new X.conf or 
> something, and if the old version is copied back into place on reboot 
> for some reason... if anybody can shed some light here i would 
> appreciate it.
> 
> (2) no sound. a google search reveals that the module for this laptop's 
> sound hardware is called "snd-powermac", and indeed running "sudo 
> modprobe snd-powermac" and then restarting "kmix" made the sound 
> hardware start working.
> 
> i've gotten around this by adding "modprobe snd-powermac" to the 
> "/etc/rc.local" script, however this is "less than optimal". i know 
> there should be a way to add it into a file somewhere under the 
> /etc/modprobe.d directory, however i haven't played with kernel modules 
> since the days of /etc/modules.conf, and even then i wasn't 100% sure 
> what i was doing. can somebody can tell me where to add something so 
> that the module loader knows to load this module during its normal boot 
> process (rather than at the very end, where rc.local runs)?
> 
alsa-utils pkg should provide 'alsaconf' which will generate the 
modutils stuff to load the module & settings.  Or at least that's what I 
recall using a while back when I had sound card issues...
hth

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Dan Cherry
dscherry (@) bellsouth.net

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