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NVIDIA GeForce Video Cards

ATI Radeon 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.

Intel Video Cards

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

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"/>.

Video Cards

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

Sound

Keyboard &amp; Mouse

Scanners

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

Network Cards

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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.

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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 <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.

Sometimes it can be useful to add a custom command to the startup process so that your computer executes it on every boot. Refer to the following procedure in order to set this up.

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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> followed by pressing the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button.

Save the file and exit. If using <application>Nano</application> as the default command line editor, press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>X</keycap></keycombo> followed by <keycap>Y</keycap> for <emphasis>Yes</emphasis> and then the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key.

Make a backup of your boot configuration file. 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 cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst_backup </screen>

Change default Operating System at boot

Insert the following line: <screen> @reboot /home/user/command </screen><placeholder-1/>

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>

If your Windows partition uses the NTFS filesystem, append the following line at the end of file: <placeholder-1/>

If your Windows partition uses the FAT32 filesystem, it is safe to allow read-write access to the partition. Append the following line at the end of the file: <placeholder-1/> instead of the one above.

Save and close out of the edited file.

At the prompt, type the following and then press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key (if asked for a password, enter your user password and press the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key): <screen> sudo mount -a </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>

/dev/hdaX /media/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

/dev/hdaX /media/windows vfat umask=0000 0 0

Mount Windows partitions on boot-up

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

NTFS or FAT32

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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>

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>

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>

Check disk space usage and view the partition table

/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)