KDE 4.2.0 on Mandriva

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 6 07:41:19 GMT 2009


On Friday 06 February 2009 01:02:47 Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) wrote:
> Anne Wilson 在 2009 年 02 月 05 日 Thursday 20:35:36 時寫道:
>
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 23:52:51 Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I read Heliocastro's blog and knew that he had put a 4.2.0 package for
> > > Mandriva 2009.0.  I was excited and upgraded my KDE to 4.2.0 soon.
> > >
> > > On one of my machine, it worked well.  However on another one with
> > > nvidia 9500 and compiz turned on, it told me that kde4-window-decorator
> > > received a signal 6 (SIGABRT).
> > >
> > > I tried to disable compiz and even removed my .kde4 to start over, and
> > > it worked.  Then I tried to reinstall my nvidia driver, then tried
> > > compiz again, I got the same errors.
> > >
> > > I forgot to record the trace log :(  and I just applied account on
> > > www.kdevelopers.org and not being approved yet, so I could not post a
> > > comment to tell Helios.  I post here to ask all of you if you had the
> > > same problem.
> >
> > Franklin, probably not what you wanted to hear, but I wonder if you would
> > consider dropping compiz (at least temporarily) and trying kde's desktop
> > effects, selecting the effects that give you compiz-like performance.  It
> > would be good to know whether it does the same job, as well as compiz
> > did. I suspect that, if it does, it would be a better option, in that it
> > uses kde tools.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Yes, I'm considering this too. :-)
>
> Because when I tried to use the 3D effect on my machine which did not use
> nvidia, I got a good experience (with my RAM added to 4GB!).  So I decided
> to use this way on the machine.
>
Please let us know how things go

Anne
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