[ltp] Kubuntu and KMilo

[Noah Dain]

On 11/12/06, Jens Mayer <mail@jensmayer.de> 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? ;-)

I noticed the same thing here, and thought it odd.  However, after the
next reboot (or maybe just restarting of Xorg?) the rest of the osd
messages started working.  This is on Kubuntu 6.10/Edgy Eft.

>
> Kind regards,
> Jens
>
> --
> BOFH excuse #23: Improperly oriented keyboard.
> --


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Noah Dain
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