[kde-linux] Non-functinal kde displays with 11.4

[FrankK]

Felix, Duncan, thanks for the responses!



------- Original Message -------
>From    : Felix Miata[mailto:mrmazda at earthlink.net]
Sent    : 11/20/2011 2:17:13 AM
To      : kde-linux at kde.org
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Subject : RE: Re: [kde-linux] Non-functinal kde
displays with 11.4

 On 2011/11/20 14:08 (GMT+0800) Goh Lip composed:

>>  Felix Miata posted on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:17:13
-0500 as excerpted:

>>>  On 2011/11/20 04:53 (GMT) Duncan composed:

>>>>  the main distro's shipping versions are months
behind, so 4.7 won't hit
>>>>  most of them them until this spring. =:^(

>>>  openSUSE 12.1, with KDE 4.7.2, seems to have
been released officially a
>>>  few days ago. I was using 12.1 long before it
was announced (throughout
>>>  its development period).

>>  Cool. =:^)

> BTW, Chakra is now on 4.7.3

The OP could more easily have oS 12.1 and KDE 4.7.2
than Chakra by 
s/11.4/12.1/ in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*repo, then 'zypper
ref; zypper dup' from 
any root tty login.
-- 
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Felix, I don't know what ".sig" is yet, so I hope I
don't make that mistake again!

So fellas from the top, my interest now it trying to
get a kde (apparently 4.7) working with openSuse 12.1
when I can buy a distro DVD.

Right now I'm on dial-up and I have to conduct these
kde-linux messages via webmail to use my registered
address.

Because I can't get a functional kde (apparently 4.6)
display, I don't have a kde version to give. As I
recall from the boxes with xorg.conf files the
openSuse 11.4 DVD distro has kde 4.6.0, but that's a
guess.

The kde display problem I've have is more general
than a specific hardware combination. Something like
the composting Felix mentioned is more likely the
problem.

Since the LXDE desktop knows how to configure a
display with my hardware, shouldn't I be able to
somehow capture that information and feed it into kde
to get a display?

After an install from the openSuse 11.4 DVD, I'm left
with a blank screen or a huge cursor. From there I
can only cut the power to force a reboot. Typing 3
into the grub menu gets me to level 3 as root.

With the boxes that had xorg.conf files, I can copy
them into /etc/Xll and reboot. In those two cases
(boxes I don't have access to now) kde displays just
fine.

What I was hoping for here was a formula for me to
capture the display information LXDE is using and put
it into a format like xorg.conf that kde can use.

Of course knowing what LXDE is doing with display
information is not a specialty of this list. Also my
interest is now in openSuse 12.1 rather than 11.4, so
maybe I can't get there from here. Frank K