From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4.2 compile problem
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:02:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmrqc7$8a7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79e3aefb0902092241x2e576025r2cb6c9f7b02e1f9f@mail.gmail.com>
Dirk Uys wrote:
> But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a
> few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and
> then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar
> wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen.
>
> In /var/log/messages, something about plasma crashing is reported,
> can't remember and I'm not at the PC now, but nothing very
> informative.
The screen flashes are an indication of trying to enable desktop effects
(compositing.) I think KDE 4.2.0 tries to enable them by default, but
it seems the auto-detection of your graphics card's capabilities is
failing. Would be good if you can file a bug report about on bugs.kde.org.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 5:53 [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem Dirk Uys
2009-02-03 6:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-03 11:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Jerry McBride
2009-02-04 10:52 ` Norberto Bensa
2009-02-04 11:51 ` Jerry McBride
2009-02-03 13:43 ` Arttu V.
2009-02-03 21:34 ` J. Roeleveld
2009-02-04 6:34 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-04 11:02 ` Joost Roeleveld
2009-02-05 6:22 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-06 8:53 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-10 6:41 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-10 12:02 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-12 7:09 ` Dirk Uys
2009-02-04 6:58 ` Christopher Walters
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