Upgrade report
Hi all-
Just some notes on a recent upgrade from stable to
testing on a box with the Ivan Moore II KDE packages.
Since the packages are not a part of the official Potato
version, I was unsure of how the upgrade would
proceed.
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The machine is a Dell Inspiron 5000 notebook with the
1400x1040 display.
As expected, apt-get dist-upgrade has to be run several
times. All the KDE packages are held back the first
time.
After a clean run through dist-upgrade, I tried to launch
kdm. This failed because kdm was gone.
Okay, install kdm. This also installs kdebase
although I thought it was already there.
But still no luck starting the kdm . Turns out XFree86
is still in version 3 and my weird configuration ( for the
Dell display ) has been replaced with a default one.
For some reason, offhandedly, I run dist-upgrade again.
XFree86 version 4 starts coming down. I choose the
new XFree86 server but decline to setup since my
resolution is not supported by the package install
scripts.
I run XFree86 -configure and get a new configuration
file. All video and LCD setup is magically generated
for my weird hardware (that is really cool). But upon
testing the server, mouse is frozen.
After some playing, I discover that I have to remove
gpm (bummer, it used to work with X no problem, I
just used /dev/gpmdata for my mouse device) AND
I have to specify the PS/2 protocol (-configure set it
up for a serial device). I resolve to figure out the
gpm problem someday.
OK, X server works. I replace X config file, make
sure Xserver and /etc/X11/X are pointing to the
right place (Q: are both necessary? Why do we list
the server in Xserver AND link X to it?) and start kdm.
Bingo.
Observation: KDE is still version 2.1 (I thought it
would be 2.2), but everything seems much faster.
Observation: The vertical bars on the panel that
seperate the applets are now vertical rows of dots.
I don't think that's right. The vertical bars are still
there on application tool panels.
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