Re: Laptop blues

[Ralf Nolden <nolden@kde.org>]

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On Monday 17 March 2003 17:33, Bernt Christandl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm trying to set up my laptop
>
>   Siemens Lifebook C   with
>   VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
>   (rev 64)
>
> with woody and xfree86-4 and kde...
> and i'm getting the blues!
>
> -> with xserver xfree86-mach64 (xfree86-3) and kde-3.1
>    i had a running environment, but even with xfstt fonts were not
>    as with xfree86-4. And my grafic was not supporting GL stuff...
>
> -> with xfree86-xserver (xfree86-4) and kde-3.1 fonts were fine,
>    but when i switch back from my grafics-screen (ALT-CTRL F7)
>    to any ascii-console (ALT-CTRL-F1...6) i only see vertical
>    flickering lines... At least i could switch back to F7.
>
> -> then today i upgraded to kde-3.1.1 and qt-3.1.2
>    to get rid of the message that 162 packages should be upgraded.
>    After that with xfree86-mach64 the kdm crashed 3 times so
>    X was not started at all.
>
> -> with xfree86-4 kdm runs at least, but still shows the bug
>    with/from qt-3.1.2 discussed on this list, so i downgraded
>    back to qt-3.1.1.
>    Now also the combination kdm/xfree86-mach64 is running.
>
> -> but then i realized, that the menus behind the mouse-buttons
>    are gone :( When i login (xfree86-3-or-4) i see in the upper
>    left corner 3 icons appearing and then the background is drawn
>    again (flat color, no wallpaper) "over that" and on my desktop
>    are no icons and no menus behind the mouse-buttos :(
>
> For space reasons i did a "apt-get clean" and now all my kde-3.1 stuff
> is lost. Where can i find these packages now? How can i tell "ktown"
> that i want to downgrade back to 3.1?
>
> Is anybody using that ATI Rage Mobility successfully with xfree86-4
> and can tell me how to configure it better than i have done?

deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/X11 woody main

gives you XFree 4.3 for woody. Maybe that helps you. The KDE problems are 
certainly not related to your graphics adaptor. 


>
> With best regards,
>
> Bernt Christandl

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