Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

[Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:04:11PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > (KDE4 causing hard system lockups/freezes during console
> > sessions, but not FreeNX sessions.)
>
> Hm I see.
> My next hint would be try to disable the compositing of kwin (the window 
> manager), maybe it somehow detects it is available and crashes when 
> being used or crashes even when trying to detect it;
> $ kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled \
>   --type bool false

That worked!  For the first time in more months than I can
remember, I'm actually running at least a minimal version of one
of the major graphical environments on my Alpha console.

At the risk of being perceived as greedy :-), what can I do to
help as far as getting compositing working?

--Bob