Kubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal
kernel: 3.8.0 -11
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After upgrading my computer to an i7 6-core processor and 16 Gig of memory. the machine runs as fast as thought. Ha I don't wait for it now. It waits for me. That's how computers should work. <smile>
I finally am running a Kubuntu 12.10 AMD 64-bit image, and it seems to run fine. Yesterday was another day...
After trying to update the NVIDIA video driver, every time I would re-boot the system would come up in a very small screen with big fonts. It did not recognize the new driver I presumably installed! As a result I read that one should remove a Nouveau package, so I did, --but this broke grub, so every time I would reboot, I no longer had an option to boot up Linux. Instead I could go to Windows or do a memory test. ?&^%
ha -life is funny.
I tried reloading Kubuntu from a CD, but every attempt never fixed grub, and I was never given an option to boot into Linux after reloading from CD 5 times.
I ended up going back to a very old Kubuntu CD, and it installed fine, replacing grub. Once I had a proper boot menu again, I re-installed <again> Version 12.10 with the AMD-64 iso image. This time it worked fine.
Maybe I'll leave well enough alone, or maybe I'll break it again.
<smile>
Yesterday: Feb 27, 2013
I reloaded Kubuntu with a 64-bit version to work in my new hardware. I noticed that the temperature widgets were not getting updated in the 32-bit version which ran on the new hardware.
The temperature widget now works.
I also had to re-install the NVIDIA video driver using Muon and found that I needed to run:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo restart lightdm
to get the new NVIDIA video driver to work. In the 32-bit version, sudo restart lightdm did not do anything, but sudo restart kde did.
I guess there are some small differences.
