[kde-freebsd] [HEADS UP] KDE 4.1.0 for FreeBSD available

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, August 12, 2008 a las 09:29:48AM -0700, David Johnson escribió:

> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 05:47:03 am Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > I can't imagine that nobody has a just working hald config, just as an
> > example; or should I ask in freebsd-hackers? how the FreeBSD KDE team
> > asumes that people will switch to 4.1 if aparently nobody knows how to
> > enable sound in FreeBSD 7.0R / KDE 4.1? :-)
> 
> My sound is working fine. It was working with KDE 3, and when I login to a KDE 
> 4 desktop, it continues to work. Without more information on your sound card, 
> configuration, etc., it's hard to offer more help. Is sound already working 
> in KDE 3?
> 
> It sounds like your rc.conf is fine. Regardless of desktop, sound can 
> sometimes be hard to get working in FreeBSD. Please look in the FreeBSD 
> handbook, page 7.2 "Setting Uup the Sound Card".
> 
> KDE 4 users phonon, which in turn uses with xine (default) or gstreamer 
> backends. You may want to go to the Sound System Configuration page in system 
> settings, and change the backend to gstreamer, and try that.

Hello,

The sound was fine in KDE3 (just using snd_ich as module and /dev/dsp as
device in Control Centre), it worked also below KDE4 using the Control
Centre of KDE3 to test the sound; it turned out that my old ports of
dbus+hal were not working because, for example, they did not created a
user 'haldaemon' and so hald could not start; I've updated the ports
this morning and now sound is fine with KDE4 as it should;

I have my lesson learned now: you must have all ports uptodate if you go
to compile the kde4 master port and I'm short before scribbling now this
laptop and do a complete re-install of the kde4 master port;

two small think I discovered this morning:

on start of KDE4 (via ~/.xinitrc && startx) the NumLock always turns on,
even if I have in System-Settings-->Keyboard 'leave unchanged';
only 'turn off' helps;

if I enable the 'Desktop Effects' via System-Settings-->Desktop on next
KDE start the screen turns first white, then dark, and only the movable
mouse pointer is visible;

Thx for all hints concerning the sound

	matthias

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