[ltp] Kubuntu and KMilo

Martin Aumueller linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:17:45 +0100


You could also install the kmilo-legacy package and disable the hotkey setup 
for your ibm special keys. This will give you the behaviour from dapper.

On Sunday 12 November 2006 15:02, Jens Mayer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> being a long-time Gentoo user, I gave Kubuntu 6.10 on my Thinkpad T41p a
> try, and I'm quite impressed - nearly everything worked out of the box
> (including supend and hibernate and experimental DRI with the r300 driver).
> All I had to do was to add a line to Xorg's configuraton file to get
> Trackpoint scrolling and install wpa_supplicant for my very own security.
> ;-)
>
> A few questions remain:
>
> -> CPU-Fan: Using Gentoo, the Fan only turned on a few times when not doing
> anything, now it's running most of the times. I have ibm_acpi loaded
> (v0.12a), Dynamic Clock in Xorg and 'powernowd' installed, so the CPU is
> mostly on 600MHz. Where's the difference I'm looking for? Any ideas?
>
> -> KMilo / OSD: Using Gentoo, I installed and configured 'tpb' and 'xosd'
> to get an "On Screen Display" for Volume, Brightness and Thinklight
> actions. While Kubuntu's Kmilo looks better than plain old 'xosd', it just
> displays Volume changes - the other buttons work, but are not included. I
> did not find out how to configure KMilo yet, since it hasn't an entry in
> KDE's control center, either. So: Any Kubuntu user's here? ;-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Jens
>
> --
> BOFH excuse #23: Improperly oriented keyboard.