Nvidia drivers,extra kernel,Adept Manager,dynamic disksSOLV

[DaddyX3]

Hello all,
I'm new to the world of linux distro's. I've chosen to use the Ultimate Edition 1.5 because of all the additional packages pre-installed with the distro, which saves much headache for the noob. I can't thank TheeMahn enough for this really cool distro and all his hard work. Thank You! I do however have a couple of Q's:
1. After installing the Nvidia drivers and having ENVY change the xorg.conf file for me, I now have two kernels in the Grub menu. If I let grub boot to its default (the new kernel) I get the "no X server found" message and have to go back and start from my old kernal (the original). The original works just fine and from what I can tell includes any driver changes made by Nvidia (Nvidia Control Manager works). How do I hide this extra kernal from the Grub menu and use the original kernel by default?
2. Any body have a clue on how to mount a "dynamic" disk created by Vista? I've had success with a basic volume and simple, but no idea about the dymamic volume! Its very important to me since it has all my media on it!?
3. Adept Manager says that I can not install any packages or make any system changes because I don't have any administrative privileges. I have only the one user and I checked permissions and says that I have permissions!?
Any Idea's? Thanx in advance:)

[TheeMahn]

[drama]

[TheeMahn]

[DaddyX3]

WOW! That was a very fast reply!:) Thank you so much!

TheeMahn - I have performed what you have suggested and still ... to no avail. I did this quite a while ago, and from what I can tell, Ubuntu does not like a "dynamic" volume. To be honest with you, I don't recall why it is a dynamic volume anyway. I was working in Vista and somehow that is what I ended up with. It works just fine in Vista, but not Ubuntu.
... That is ok if I don't get it figured out though, I will just try to shift things around little by little on to other drives that is recognizable (only prob. is that it is much larger than my other drives installed, but maybe that'll make me weed out some of the junk I don't really need/ watch/ listen too! )
ps - by the way, how do you sudo Adept Manager? I tried a few times but I know that I was taking blind shots at it within terminal. (:sudo adept ? , :sudo adept manager ? - both got me nowhere) sory for the ignorance:(

drama1981 - Thank you so much for the extensive and very detailed response! You have gone beyond the call of duty! I'm not quite sure on why ENVY has created the second kernel either, but it has done it on both of my machines. Weird. Its not the end of the world, however I do feel that it is a scary thing to happen to a noob like myself. I've invested quite a bit of time tracking down fixes for strage happenings ever since the beginning of my linux-base adventures. I do have confidence that everything will come out ok though and with great help from a community of linux users, like yourself, I have the utmost confidence. Thank you for your time and efforts. I will try this and post back here to let you know how it has turned out.

[DaddyX3]

Thank you, It worked like a charm drama1981.
I asked in a earlier post, how do you run sudo for programs? For example, TheeMahn asked if I was using sudo for Adept Manager, how do I? I tried taking some wild shots at it but didn't work. If anybody could explain to me a simple way to find out how to run programs in sudo I would greatly appriciate it. (ie., typing in to terminal to find out executable file name for a specific program, how would I find out the name?) Thank you in advance!

[drama]