Translations by Adrian Guniš

The <application>Hardware Drivers</application> can be opened by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Hardware Drivers</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Once there, if your system has proprietary devices, you will see a list of those devices as well as the available drivers. Highlight the driver you want to use and press the <guibutton>Enable</guibutton> button. Follow any further instructions such as entering your user password or rebooting your system.

Once installed, open <application>QtParted</application> by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Partition Manager (QtParted)</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

<trademark class="registered">Bluetooth</trademark> Internet options are available from within the <application>KMenu</application> by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Bluetooth Chat</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Bluetooth OBEX Client</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

A copy of the license is available here: <ulink url="../../libs/C/copyright.html">Creative Commons ShareAlike License</ulink>.

More and more <trademark class="registered">Bluetooth</trademark> devices are making their way into the market these days. Kubuntu has recognized this and offers support for many <trademark class="registered">Bluetooth</trademark> devices. For <trademark class="registered">Bluetooth</trademark> configuration, access the <guilabel>Bluetooth</guilabel> system settings by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Computer</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>System Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. These settings provide you the options for configuring <guilabel>Bluetooth Services</guilabel> as well as <guilabel>Paired Bluetooth Devices</guilabel>.

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu documentation team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam). For a list of contributors, see the <ulink url="../../libs/C/contributors.html">contributors page</ulink>

Included with your new Kubuntu system is the <application>Hardware Drivers</application> application which allows you to easily install the <productname>NVIDIA GeForce</productname> binary or restricted drivers.

If your system utilizes an Intel video card, there is nothing further that you will have to do with your system. The Intel graphics drivers seem to work very well with the compositing features available in KDE.

Included with your new Kubuntu system is the <application>Hardware Drivers</application> application which allows you to easily install the <productname>ATI Radeon</productname> binary or restricted drivers.

Further information concerning <trademark>Bluetooth</trademark> can be located on the Ubuntu community documentation site at <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup"/>.

NVIDIA GeForce Video Cards

<acronym>ATI</acronym>, Nvidia, Intel, Matrox, or even those of you using Voodoo graphics cards are going to have either some issues or no issues at all. A majority of these cards may not offer rendering support without the use of what is known as a binary or restricted driver. <acronym>ATI</acronym> and Nvidia both require binary drivers for accelerated rendering support. Integrated Intel cards, when paired with a wide screen display normally need an extra utility in order to achieve proper resolutions and refresh rates. These options will be explained further in the following subsections.

Sound cards these days typically come from the more popular chipsets and a majority of the time works out-of-the-box in Kubuntu. If you are having sound issues it is recommended that you refer to the Ubuntu community documentation on this subject at <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound"/>.

Please review the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/printing/">Printing Documentation</ulink> for scanners and scanning.

Further information for video cards can be located on the Ubuntu community documentation site at <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video"/>.

ATI Radeon Video Cards

Please review the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/network/">Networking Documentation</ulink> for Ethernet and Wireless hardware.

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With the mass amount of various keyboards, mice, and keyboard and mouse combos, your options in Kubuntu are near endless. Whether you use <acronym>QWERTY</acronym> or Dvorak, Logitech or Microsoft, 5-button or 7-button, there are options for you. Due to the mass amount of options, more information on this subject is available on the Ubuntu community documentation site at <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Peripherals"/>.

Please review the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/network/">Networking Documentation</ulink> for modem hardware.

Please review the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kubuntu/printing/">Printing Documentation</ulink> for printers and printing.

Edit the <filename>menu.lst</filename> file by pressing <keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> and then typing <userinput>kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst</userinput> in the <guilabel>Run Command</guilabel> dialog followed by pressing the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.

# hiddenmenu

hiddenmenu

Locate the following line: <placeholder-1/> and uncomment it by removing the <emphasis>#</emphasis> in front of the line so that it looks like: <placeholder-2/>

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Edit the <application>crontab</application> with administrative privileges. To do so, type the following at the command prompt followed by the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo crontab -e </screen>

Edit your <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> by pressing <keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> and then typing <userinput>kdesu kate /etc/fstab</userinput> in the <guilabel>Run Command</guilabel> dialog followed by pressing the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.

Next, backup your configuration file for mounting drives and open the file in a text editor with administrative privileges. To do so, type the following at the prompt followed by pressing the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup </screen>

To unmount the partition, type the following command at the prompt followed by the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo umount /media/windows/ </screen>

Mount Windows partitions on boot-up

If your Windows partition uses the FAT32 filesystem, it is safe to allow read-write access to the partition. To do so, type the following command at the prompt followed by the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo mount /dev/hdaX /media/windows/ -t vfat -o umask=0000 </screen>

First, make a directory where the partition can be mounted. To do so, type the following at the command prompt followed by pressing the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo mkdir /media/windows </screen>

Next, type the following command to mount an NTFS Windows Partition and allow read-only access followed by pressing the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo mount /dev/hdaX /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o ro,umask=0222 </screen>

For <acronym>NTFS</acronym> drives refer to step 4. For <acronym>FAT32</acronym> drives refer to step 5. <acronym>NTFS</acronym> allows only <emphasis>read-only</emphasis> access whereas <acronym>FAT32</acronym> allows both <emphasis>read</emphasis> and <emphasis>write</emphasis> access.

Mount/Unmount Windows partitions

Each partition will be listed under <guilabel>Available Disks and Filesystems</guilabel> details of each partition.

Credits and License

2009

Ubuntu Documentation Project

Canonical Ltd. and members of the <placeholder-1/>

Open <application>Konsole</application> by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Terminal (Konsole)</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.