[kde-freebsd] Status of KDE4 on FreeBSD

[David Johnson]

On Monday 25 February 2008 04:13:21 am Wes Morgan wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > I've been away, watching only the commits to area51 now and then. At
> > FOSDEM I mostly fiddled with OSOL thingies, but fielded a few FreeBSD
> > questions as well, along the lines of "how well does KDE4 work on FreeBSD
> > right now?" I answered "ports are in preparation, which means it 'just
> > works'; certainly the basic desktop is in place with audio and web
> > browsing and stuff." Is that at all accurate?
> >
> > Do systemsettings and system info give sensible answers at all?
>
> Does anyone have an idea yet why the nvidia binary driver is unusable if
> you enable any of the effects (opengl stuff)?

I have an older Radeon, and experienced lockups with this, so I don't think 
it's limited to the Nvidia. I suspect (without evidence) that the window 
manager is just turning stuff on, without checking for actual hardware/OpenGL 
capabilities.

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David Johnson