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Well ... As I could not do it find out what caused the problem, I deleted .Kde/ and everything is working correctly until now ... but I'm hoping something new ... Since the last post ...
I tried to upgrade. Everything seemed to go well. I installed the dep and then the alien packages without issue. when KDE came up, there was a duplicate panel at the top of the screen and the performance was terrible. Anything that I tried to activate would not respond but would show if I switched to different desktop. It was all very strange. I am not used to having issues with Slackware packages but I think this must have been something I did wrong.
I am running -current with KDE 4.4.5 without issue now.
Well, I gave it a go again and moved the .new files this time with the same effect. It appears to have something to do with the dual monitor setup. I disabled the second monitor and everything is working now. Is there some change in KDE that would bugger up a dual monitor? I'm using an FX5200 nVidia with the 173 driver build from the slackbuilds.org build script. The following is my xorg.conf:
Got it. Evidently my video card is too old. The legacy173 driver seems to not play well with the opengl compositing. This is not a huge deal. I had opengl set previously and disable functionality checks checked without issue. 4.5.0 seems to develop problems with this. 4.4.5 could deal with it. I will miss some of the eye candy for now. I think it may be time to upgrade the vid card.
I have not had problems with dolphin (kde445 and kde450). I was surprised at reports about the Dolphin above. It will, perhaps because I use proprietary Nvidia drivers?
I had and have problems using kde45 when resize panel .... The "X" crash!
Another problem with KTorrent was not started. I resolved by copying the
lib /usr/lib64/ "libktorrent.so.2.0.1." Lack of these lib ,cause error in plugin kget ... I copied the lib from another installation on another partition.I also did :
#ln -s /usr/lib64/libktorrent.so.2 /usr/lib64/libktorrent.so
there's reports too on slacky.eu that upgrading dbus seems to solve things, worth a try.
be aware that, like phobos says there, after having rebuilt latest dbus from pat's scripts you better switch to init 1, to kill all processes that are using dbus, before "upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall" the new dbus package, then reboot your system.
Of course they are not byte-identical. However, they were built using the same SlackBuild scripts.
Ultimately, you will be better of by upgrading to the official Slackware packages. Mine were fine as long as KDE 4.5.1 had not been added to slackware-current.
Of course they are not byte-identical. However, they were built using the same SlackBuild scripts.
Ultimately, you will be better of by upgrading to the official Slackware packages. Mine were fine as long as KDE 4.5.1 had not been added to slackware-current.
Eric
Thank you Alien Bob for your reply . :-))
Last edited by afreitascs; 09-09-2010 at 10:18 PM.
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