Problems with Kubuntu

[Kaidao]

Hey guys, right now I'm running Vista on an Asus G1, and it's really starting to piss me off. So many applications that don't work, memory hog, everything. I've already tried so many times to switch over to linux with dualboot of ubuntu and kubuntu. But both times, I've encountered some problems that just...made me really frustrated and switch back to Vista. So now, I'm running 2 gigs of ram, Geforce Go 7700, Dual Core 2.0 ghz processor. What distro should I pick?

1. I want one that works, obviously.
2. I want to be able to do some programming work.

The problem I had with the kubuntu install, was that I couldn't get the audio to work, or the video. Or the auto-mount for my hard drives...Any help is appereciated. Thanks.

-Kai

[oz]

Nobody here will be able to guarantee that any distro will work perfectly on your system, so the best route for you in my opinion is to try as many different distros as you can to see what works and what doesn't, or stick with one distro and keep working at it until all problems are solved. Either method might require some extra effort and time.

[Kaidao]

Yeah I understand..but is there any distro that will make that process the quickest?

[devils casper]

It pretty easy to sort all the problems you are facing in (K)Ubuntu. I would suggest you to explain your problems a bit more and we'll try our best to sort those out.

[Kaidao]

Well in my Kubuntu install, I had problems auto-mounting my drives, so everytime I restarted my comp, I had to remount the drives. Also, I couldn't get the audio to work on my computer, so no sound. And I also couldn't watch any movies on my computer (mostly were .avi files), and I couldn't get the webcam on my laptop to work either..

-Kai

[techieMoe]

Well in my Kubuntu install, I had problems auto-mounting my drives, so everytime I restarted my comp, I had to remount the drives.

Are we talking about optical, USB, or harddrives here?

Also, I couldn't get the audio to work on my computer, so no sound.

What sound chipset do you have?

And I also couldn't watch any movies on my computer (mostly were .avi files),

That probably due to the fact that Ubuntu (and all its derivatives) doesn't include some codecs for legal reasons. It's easy enough to install these. Did you not see a dialog box that offered to search for the proper codecs when you tried to open the files?

and I couldn't get the webcam on my laptop to work either..

What type of webcam is it?

[devils casper]

Well in my Kubuntu install, I had problems auto-mounting my drives, so everytime I restarted my comp, I had to remount the drives.

Kubuntu doesn't automount all partitions. You have to edit /etc/fstab file for that. Open Konsole and execute this

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.
* Its a small L in fdisk -l.

Also, I couldn't get the audio to work on my computer, so no sound. And I also couldn't watch any movies on my computer (mostly were .avi files)

Execute kmix in Terminal and move sliders up. Make sure that nothing should be muted.
Kubuntu doesn't support Proprietary Media Formats out of box. You have to install necessary codecs.
VLC Player supports most of media formats. Execute this

sudo apt-get install
sudo apt-get install vlc

I couldn't get the webcam on my laptop to work either..

No idea. I hope somebody will post suggestion for it.