Comments on: KDE Quickies: KDE 4.0.1, openSUSE Live CD, New KDE Repository Layout

By: caes

caes — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:30:03 +0000

Tested the openSUSE KDE LiveCD and found it quite annoying to “reconfigure” the desktop to our preference every time the computer restarts.

It would be great if openSUSE’s LiveCD supports features like “persistent home” and “poor man install” capability like Knoppix.
If updates (added packages) can be retained – that would be magical.

Or maybe it already does but I’ve just missed it.

Also, it would be easier for us to “sell” openSUSE to friends who is still running xp :-)

By: Micheal

Micheal — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:10:13 +0000

With this on-board ATI card in my HP/Compaq machine, I had to install the newest ATI driver to get anything but a black screen, even in KDE3. I added the repository http://www2.ati.com/suse/10.3/ and installed x11-video-fglrxG01-kmp and its dependencies (one other package). Then re-ran sax2 and everything was great. I give this info just in case you run into this problem.

By: Beineri

Beineri — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:10:17 +0000

Wrong.

By: Franz

Franz — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:14:09 +0000

Even with yuor comment, I am still scratching (my head that is) All 6 repos (STABLE, UNSTABLE x Community, Desktop, Extra-Apps) come in the flavour 10.2 10.3 and factory. I want keep my 10.3 for normal work but the newest KDE4.0.x can only be tested with an openSUSE factory installation so it seems.

By: Satish Srinivasan

Satish Srinivasan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:03:03 +0000

Looks impressive.. I’ll wait for slackware to include kde4. Thanks guys for the good work. :)

By: Lapi

Lapi — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:02:04 +0000

Does anyone know how to activate composition with this live CD?
It says “Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available”.

I have tried it on a system with nvidia 6600LE and on another system with Intel 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller(which has open source drivers offered by Intel). Tonight I will test it on my lapton which has an nvidia 7600 for mobile(Go or smth like that), but I have a feeling that I will get the same message.

By: j

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:45:40 +0000

will ktorrent rc1 be available sometime soon in the new repositories?

By: Beineri

Beineri — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:36:21 +0000

YaST will install missing dependencies if it has access to it, as written on the wiki page: “If you get a message that dependencies cannot be resolved, enter the “Advanced Mode” of the one-click handler and enable the “standard” online repository of your distribution.”

By: Ralph Martin

Ralph Martin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:14:03 +0000

I have a computer with an ATI XPRESS 200 as you know this is a video card integrated in the board, so system went to sleep mode after using this live CD, so I couldn’t use it and install the KDE 4, the one-click installation start correctly, but there dependencies missing so It will be better for Yast that instead of giving me the error message just look for the packages that are missing and install them since I’m installing the program if that is require this should be install and give the user a warning that a particular package is needed to for the application to work properly.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:46:46 +0000

4.0.1 appeared, I think a few days before this announcement, I was scratching my head trying to work out the two KDE 4 repositories then reaslied that one was ewer, the other was factory, so it’s been up for a few days, you just need to change your repository because they have restructed it, and you wont get it in the previous one.