[kde-linux] {Fraud?} {Disarmed} Re: KDE logs?

[Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos]

Beso <givemesugarr at gmail.com> writes:

>    2008/5/14 Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk>:
>
>    Beso <givemesugarr at gmail.com> writes:
>    >    2008/5/14 Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk>:
>    >
>    >      Hello all,
>    >      For some reason my KDE installations stopped working. Both KDE
>    4.0.3
>    >      and
>    >      KDE 3.5.9 do not start. While starting they just stop and go
>    back to
>    >      kdm. What's the easiest way to check what the problem is?
>    >      I am using Gentoo Linux, kdm 4 to start everything up.
>    >
>    >    have you by chance upgraded to xorg-server from git?!
>    >
>
>      No, I don't think so. I am using xorg-server 1.4.0.90-r3. Is there
>      any
>      problem with this version I am not aware of?
>
>    xorg-server-9999 doesn't work with kde4 but works with kde MailScanner
>    warning: numerical links are often malicious: 3.5.9. and i had the same
>    issues with that version. that's why i was asking that. maybe it's mesa
>    related. as libdrm are you using the 9999 or the 2.3 branch?! i've seen
>    that mesa 7 has problem with the latest drm in git since it has some
>    abi changes.
>

OK, in the meantime I found the problem.
I followed a couple of months ago the gentoo installation which told me
to add a env var KDEWM="compiz --replace ..." or something like
this. Removing this a running env-update solved the issue.
:) Now I can try KDE4 and go back to KDE3.5 as default! :)

Thanks,

-- 
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK