Well I’ve been using KDE for the last month or so and other then afew small problems, It has been perfect. I feel that KDE or Beryl have crashed alot less then they did with GNOME so that’s a good thing. The desktop itself seems more polished with more options for customization which is good. It does seem abit more of a resource hog then GNOME but it still runs perfect on my Laptop so thats no problem really.

One of the main things that was bugging me when i first installed KDE was my soundcard wasn’t working properly for some reason. I found it was just a quick fix with KMix not having the proper master channel set.

Fix KMix Master Channel

In your KDE taskbar you should see a small speaker which is KMix if not then hit Alt-F2 and type

   kmix

Now that you Found/Opened Kmix, Right click on the icon and Select Master Channel. Change this to PCM.

Now Open Terminal, and copy/paste the following

    kmixctrl -s

This will save your new settings for Kmix to start with next time.

Adding Additional Codex’s for MPlayer

Ubuntu comes with afew free format Codex’s but to enable all the Video/Audio options then we’ll have to get the rest of the codexs
Download your codex’s from

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Then just extract the tar file and copy them to your /usr/lib/Win32 directory

  tar -xzf /PathtoFile
  sudo mv /PathtoDirectory/* /usr/lib/Win32/