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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Kubuntu on (certain) Lenovo laptops not possible - reasons? Post 302312808 by SilversleevesX on Sunday 3rd of May 2009 01:22:19 PM

05-03-2009

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Kubuntu on (certain) Lenovo laptops not possible - reasons?

Hi.

I've used the Wubi install of Ubuntu and Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine for close to half a year now. My brother has let me know of a program where he works by which they're getting rid of (with support negated) several Lenovo laptops, on which, he also informs me, the K 'flavor' of Ubuntu will not install properly or work to anyone's idea of 'optimally.' We've gone back and forth on the reasons as to why, and the best either of us can come up with is that it is a video hardware issue where the video "pipeline" (forgive me for not using the right hw terminology in this instance) is not accommodated in some way by any of the drivers written for KDE, or in itself falls short of what's required to generate, color and refresh at a rate or to a degree of detail and complexity that KDE requires.

Does anyone know, or does anyone have an educated guess, as to why the K 'flavor' of Ubuntu won't run on such as the T500 laptops? (just to toss out a model spec by name)

BZT

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WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

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SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

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