darkzar99 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Ok, I just installed Kubuntu on this machine, but when I go to install programs (firefox) in Adept, everything that is not installed is greyed out and i can not click on them (left or right) or select it in any way. How can i fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 First KDE sucks IMHO, Second, use CLI apt-get remove package to isntall apt-get install package also, uncomment the Universal repo's in /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get update, apt-get upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 what desktop environment would you recommend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I would really suggest fluxbox, not becuase its easier to use, my reason is, if you want to learn as much as you can about linux, fluxbox will give you a GUI for stuff like IMing, webbrowsing and music listening/movie viewing, but also forces you to use A LOT of command line. that in the long run will help you more then you can ever imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 ok, thanks, i'll look into that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalada Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I would really suggest fluxbox, not becuase its easier to use, my reason is, if you want to learn as much as you can about linux, fluxbox will give you a GUI for stuff like IMing, webbrowsing and music listening/movie viewing, but also forces you to use A LOT of command line. that in the long run will help you more then you can ever imagine. Out of interest Duelus, what would you suggest if you don't want to learn about Linux, but just want to be practical. Gnome? I'm just interested, I also use fluxbox where I can, often because it's nicer on the resources ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Ya, I would use gnome if I wanted to use a GUI for everything, CLI is faster though. 365 posts one for each day of year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 ok so i will just use ubuntu instead of kubuntu right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 I just checked out the last DL.TV episode http://kororaa.org/ has a bootable image with Xgl in it... now all I need is a compatable graphics card so I can spin my cube of Desktops lol or wobble my windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 Cool, i'll have to try the live cd of that, ive never really used Xgl before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Cool, i'll have to try the live cd of that, ive never really used Xgl before I'll be on it as soon as I get a Graphics card update so probably end of year lol... it looks so shiney though :) real neat stuff... would be cool to have your desktop as a book. Anyone remember BeOS and the video wrapped around objects that was fun :) Come to think of it I haven't seen Xgl running video yet... wonder what that looks like on a spinning cube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 So how great of a graphics card do you need to have to run this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 So how great of a graphics card do you need to have to run this? If you are refering to Xgl, not a very powerful one. It runs ok on Intel integrated graphics cards. Obviusly it runs better on more powerful ones. You would never need any thing more powerfull then a nVidia 5500 for it to run flawlessly. Unlike a certain desktop enviroment that is still in beta... and begins with an A and ends with an O. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 You could probably get a way with just using a TNT2... but it depends the resolution you are using, the number of sides and the number of windows you have open at once. Each of these things takes up graphical memory, and you will notice when your graphics card runs out of memory. Transfering data between the system RAM and the graphics cards RAM is a relitivly slow process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 Ok thanks, i thought you had to the one of the worlds greatest cards to run it, obvioiusly not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy© Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Nope just mine is damed old I keep going time to update and then I read about the next thing comming out... ooo 2 GPU's on one card shinnney Comming up the potential to have 7 cores (or more) in your machine :shock: Sweeet PPU quad core CPU and multiple GPU's and all to play minesweeper LMAO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkzar99 Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia_tech_swagger Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 First KDE sucks IMHO,Second, use CLI apt-get remove package to isntall apt-get install package also, uncomment the Universal repo's in /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get update, apt-get upgrade Can we quit the window manager BS please? The correct answer to "Which window manager should I use?" is "Try them and pick whatever you damn well like best." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia_tech_swagger Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 So how great of a graphics card do you need to have to run this? Confirmed running on: - nVidia cards as slow as the MX 440 .. often even slower - Intel Integrated 8xx and higher - Vanilla older ATI Radeon cards (think around the 9200 area) Cards confirmed that ATI is still an evil slut: - Any Mobility FireGL - Any card released in the last 6 months ... probably up to a year - Any old ATI cards whatsoever (AGP 1/2/4x) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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