I CAN HAS DESKTOP PLZ

[athelind]

So, I worked myself through all five stages of the Kubler-Ross model and achieved a nice, serene state of Acceptance.

And then, earlier this e'en, hinoki replaced the power supply in my shiny blue brick with andreal's discarded unit.

Lo, it works again!

Ubuntu's reinstalled; dragon mascot or no, I'm not going to try Kubuntu again until I have a better feel for configuring X the hard way, with config files and command lines and blood sacrifice.

Things are MOSTLY working smoothly at this stage, though Firefox is pulling one of those stupid "You need to install this plug-in/This plug-in is already installed/You need to restart Firefox/You need to install the SAME PLUG-IN" things. It should settle out somehow, though, thinking about it, my grandson's machine has run into the same problem.

Grrr, when stuff that Used To Work refuses to work, that means there's probably some sneaky little problem hiding somewhere.

Tomorrow, I have some quality time scheduled with Package Manager. Gnite!

Comments

[kfops.livejournal.com]

If Ubuntu configures X correctly for you, you also have a couple options. You can install Kubuntu along side it (it's just extra libraries, I think the link was around here somewhere). You can also try and locate your xorg.conf file, which contains all your X-Windows configuration information (resolution, mouse, etc), copy it to a floppy or the like, and then copy it back after Kubuntu install.

The xorg.conf file is usually hiding in your /etc/X11 directory, though it may move around depending on the distribution.

Oh, and don't think this was a blatant disregard of your "I'm not going to try Kubuntu again..." comment. Well, I guess it sort've is!

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Ahh, good to hear it was only a power supply issue. ^^ 'tis what I figured it was. Hopefully you can get the software bugs sorted out as well.