[SOLVED] Post installation issues with KDE 4.7.0

fettouhi · 2011-08-06 13:34:38

I reinstalled my machine (DELL Studio 540 PC) with Arch Linux 64 bit. I did an install using LVM2 and RAID (have 2 500 GB drives in my machine). Everything went fine with the installation and bootloader (grub2) but I'm having a few issues with KDE and grub2.

1. When booting my machine grub2 gives an error saying "error: fd0 not found" (twice). My machine does not have a floppy drive and has never had one. There is no option in the BIOS to turn floppy off. So why is grub2 complaining about it?

2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?

3. I have and Brother DCP-7045n printer in my network and when try to print from a KDE program (Koffice, Kate, Kwrite, Kile etc.), the margins are completely messed up. The print preview on the screens looks right but the actual print everything shift upwards to the right. So things on top of a page are cut off for example. Printing from Gnome/GTK apps (Acrobat Reader, Libreoffice etc.) do not show this behaviour. I 've had this issue with KDE4 since KDE 4.3. Here is the original ustream bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196590

Anybody got an idea how to fix this?

4. Skype is crashing on me on startup constantly several times before it finally runs. I've had this problem since the 2.2.x series got released? Anybody got a fix for that. I was hoping a reinstall would fix that problem (same with the printing issue) but no luck.

5. I'm using KDE's microblogging plasma app to check my twitter account but I can't get to remember my password. Everytime I log into I have to manually login to my twitter and kdewallet is running and has my password stored and everything. This one really pusles me.

6. The final issue I having and issue was also the reason why I wanted to reinstall my machine in the first place. I originally used KDEmod as my desktop but they stopped making KDEmod some time ago when they started working on Chakra. So I removed KDEmod and installed KDE from Arch directly. A nice feature of KDE4 is its ability to generate previews on folders containing images and videos. When I switched to KDE that feature stopped working. So I was expecting that with a fresh install that this work and it does except for folders containing jpeg files. If I have a folder containing only jpeg files no previews/thumbnails are generated on the folder but previews the jpeg files themselves are generated. Does anybody else have that problem with jpegs and folder previews?

Hope somebody can help me with these few issues...

Last edited by fettouhi (2012-04-05 06:00:06)

benny_kenobi · 2011-08-08 19:46:38

fettouhi wrote:

1. When booting my machine grub2 gives an error saying "error: fd0 not found" (twice). My machine does not have a floppy drive and has never had one. There is no option in the BIOS to turn floppy off. So why is grub2 complaining about it?

Have you installed grub2 with that --no-floppy flag as described in:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#BIOS_systems?

fettouhi wrote:

2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?

fettouhi wrote:

Does anybody else have that problem with jpegs and folder previews?

Nope. Is it selected in dolphin>settings>general>previews.

fettouhi wrote:

5. I'm using KDE's microblogging plasma app to check my twitter account but I can't get to remember my password.

Well that won't be a solution, but you might use choqok instead - at least it stores the password.

fettouhi · 2011-08-08 19:48:54

7. Another issue I been having with my pc is the wireless chip. The networkmanager in KDE doesn't allow me to connect to my network. It simply doesn't see it and the machine is less than 3 feet away from the router. Wired is named eth0 and wireless is eth1. I normally use wired but I'm still confused about why I can't my ESSID with my wireless card. I'm using the broadcom-wl driver and b43 ans ssd blacklisted. FIXED (had to change some settings on my router. It was running pure n-mode and the card in my machine is b/g). !!!

Last edited by fettouhi (2011-08-08 20:11:45)

fettouhi · 2011-08-08 20:20:28

benny_kenobi wrote:

fettouhi wrote:
1. When booting my machine grub2 gives an error saying "error: fd0 not found" (twice). My machine does not have a floppy drive and has never had one. There is no option in the BIOS to turn floppy off. So why is grub2 complaining about it?
Have you installed grub2 with that --no-floppy flag as described in:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#BIOS_systems?
fettouhi wrote:
2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?
fettouhi wrote:
Does anybody else have that problem with jpegs and folder previews?
Nope. Is it selected in dolphin>settings>general>previews.
fettouhi wrote:
5. I'm using KDE's microblogging plasma app to check my twitter account but I can't get to remember my password.
Well that won't be a solution, but you might use choqok instead - at least it stores the password.

To answer your first answer, yes I installed grub2 with the --no-floppy option as mentioned in the wiki. Regarding 2 I don't understand why that works for you then? I have all things turned on under previews (folder, video, jpeg etc.) but as mentioned in my first post I have no previews with pdf files and jpegs do generate on folder previews. Finally regarding 5 the microblogging plasma app worked fine on my old installation even after I updated to KDE 4.7.0. The password issue I'm having is on my fresh install.

fettouhi · 2011-08-11 07:51:05

Anybody else have any suggestions?

sq5nbg · 2011-09-03 15:15:21

fettouhi wrote:
2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?

To have possibility of pdf thumbnails in dolphin or konqueror, make sure you have 'kdegraphics-thumbnailers' package installed.

fettouhi · 2011-09-07 19:51:52

sq5nbg wrote:

fettouhi wrote:
2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?
To have possibility of pdf thumbnails in dolphin or konqueror, make sure you have 'kdegraphics-thumbnailers' package installed.

Yes that did the trick. MANY THANKS BUT I am suprised that this package wasn't installed originally when I installed KDE 4.7 to begin with during my fresh install o my PC.

Last edited by fettouhi (2011-09-07 19:52:01)

fettouhi · 2011-09-07 19:53:00

Issue 6 is fixed now. Since updating to KDE 4.7.1 thumbnails work again for jpegs, video files etc.

fettouhi · 2011-09-08 07:14:49

5 is also fixed in KDE 4.7.1, so only 1, 3 and 4 are missing .

Last edited by fettouhi (2011-09-08 07:15:05)

fettouhi · 2011-09-19 10:08:38

3 has turned into a bigger problem. Now gtk applications are shifting the output as on KDE. So far only acroread is printing correctly and the self printing test in cups. This really sucks...

fettouhi · 2011-09-19 10:34:28

fettouhi wrote:

3 has turned into a bigger problem. Now gtk applications are shifting the output as on KDE. So far only acroread is printing correctly and the self printing test in cups. This really sucks...

I finally fixed this. I found a post on the Ubuntu forums with the same problem as me (same printer) and the fix is to choose a different printer model as a driver.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398453

So 3 is fixed as well now .

AbtZ · 2011-10-27 12:13:22

fettouhi wrote:

Yes that did the trick. MANY THANKS BUT I am suprised that this package wasn't installed originally when I installed KDE 4.7 to begin with during my fresh install o my PC.

+1

I also ran into the same problem after installing KDE. Would be nice to have it fixed.

fettouhi · 2012-02-23 22:03:49

Fixed number 4 now. Only had to create a Logs directory in $HOME/.Skype/. Only 1 is missing now .

fettouhi · 2012-04-05 05:59:49

Finally 1 is fixed seems like updating grub from 1.99 to 2.00beta3 finally removed that floppy error. So every post KDE 4.7.0 issue is fixed now .

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#1 2011-08-06 13:34:38

[SOLVED] Post installation issues with KDE 4.7.0

#2 2011-08-08 19:46:38

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