Comments on: KDE 4.1 Released With openSUSE Packages and Live CD

By: SixDegrees

SixDegrees — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:24:22 +0000

I’ve been trying to download this updated all weekend. There is something seriously wrong with your server. After a successful initial connection, download speeds drop into the single digits, as in “8 Bytes per Second.”

Giving up. According to the comments, it isn’t worth it.

By: Erwin Marti

Erwin Marti — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:12:12 +0000

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to install OpenSuse 11 x86-64 in a intel 64 quadcore pc. Everything is going well up to the x11 installation. After 3 days of trying to start the x11 interface the same legend appears:
……
(EE) RADEONHD(0): RandR:not valid modes. Disabling RandR support.
(EE) RADEONHD(0): Failed to detect a conected monitor.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

First, I did not installed any RandR , and it does not appear in the “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”. Further, nothing helps: no sax, no yast. Does anybody know how to solve this problem.

In advance I thank you very much.

Erwin

By: teebs

teebs — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:23:55 +0000

I fully agree. With the addition of the folder view I have finally adopted KDE4.x. now I am just waiting for a Kdenlive KDE4 stable release :)

By: blackbelt_jones

blackbelt_jones — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:13:28 +0000

Right now, KDE 4.1 is buggy and incomplete, but what already makes it worth the hassles for me is folderview, which allows me to create, in essence, a separate desktop for writing, for surfing for audio, and for video, etc. Compared to the traditional desktop environment, which puts everything out together, this cuts waaaay down on the distraction and is allowing me to work much more focused and productive, and I’m not kidding about that. Believe me, I was as suspicious of anyone of KDE 4, but it’s just getting started, and where it’s headed is way beyond eye candy.

By: gspot

gspot — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:47:23 +0000

For what its worth I’m running an Abit IP35Pro with 2.13 core2duo, 2gigs ram. Nvidia 8500gt 512. Tried the one click install and had similar dependency problems others had on the 64bit OS. Also i just want to say that shockwave sucks unless there happens to be a work around available that I can’t find.

By: gspot

gspot — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:41:52 +0000

Thats nice to hear that it works or does not but its not a helpful comment if there is no hardware info to compare installs. For all I know you are running an old “emachine” with a celeron processor at 500 mhz and a weak 64mb gpu with 64mb of 2700 ram. :P

By: romario

romario — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:01:04 +0000

i’m so sorry: kde 4.1. is slow because nVidia drivers bug/problem.

After command:
$ nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
it runs much better

By: romario

romario — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:15:02 +0000

kde 4.1 it’s working on Suse Linux x86-64 with nVidia 8600 GS graphic card, but only If you’ve installed all LAST version of kde4 libs, deps, etc, manual with yast.

kde 4.1 still remaining very slow.

By: Alessandro17

Alessandro17 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:02:47 +0000

Microshot have tons of problems of their own.
Apricot is actually quite good (albeit not as flexible as Linux). Trouble is, they are hellbent that you can use it only on their ridiculously overpriced hardware.

By: Alessandro17

Alessandro17 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:56 +0000

“wait for 4.2 that’s the realize that it’s intended to be usable for most people”

I have many doubts that will be the case (KDE user here). But we shall see.